Chapter 17

Habeas corpus

The right that no perseon can be held in prison without fist being charged with a specific crime

Inflation

A rise in prices and decrease in the value in money

Battle of Shiloh

an 1862 civil war battle in tennesee that ened in a union victory; on eof the bloddiest encounters in the civil war

Battle of Chancellorsville

an 1863 Civil War battle in Virginia; important victory for the confederacy

Battle of Fredericksburg

an 1862 Civil War battle in Virginia; one of the unions worst defeats

Battle of Vicksburg

The Siege of Vicksburg was the final major military action in the Vicksburg campaign of the American Civil War

Battle of Gettysburg

an 1863 Civil War battle in pennsyilvania that left morethan 50,000 soldiers dead or wounded; the confederates never invaded the north again

Battle of Antietam

an 1862 civil war battle in maryland; in the day-long battle, moretha 23,000 soldiers were killed or wounded

Appomattox Courthouse

Virginia town that was the site of the confederate surrender in 1865

The successful Union strategies for winning the Civil War.

• used navy to blockade southern ports

• aimed to seize Richmond, Virginia

• planned to seize control of the Mississippi

The North’s one official goal at the start of the Civil War.

to fight to save and keep the union together

The effects of the Emancipation Proclamation.

It altered the ending for slavery and the goals of it

Where did Lee surrender to Grant, ending the Civil War

the Appomattox courthouse

Who served as a Confederate nurse during the Civil War?

Sally tompkins

After reelection, what was Lincoln’s major goal?

to try and fix up the nation

The President of the Confederacy.

Jefferson Davis

Why did Lincoln handle the slavery issue cautiously at the beginning of the war

he knew that the northerns did not like the slaves to have freedom and didnt wanted to anger the slave owners in the union

Who was the commander of the South?

Robert E. Lee

Name the commanders of the north?

Grant, William tecumseh sherman, george mclellan and joshua chamberlin

What plan did Grant have for ending the war?

Grant wanted to destroy the souths ability to fight, and to do this, he wanted the union army to destroy their food, equipment, and anything else they found that might be useful to the south

What was another name for the North?

The Union

What was another name for the South?

The Confederacy

What became clear in the early days of the Civil War?

They thought the war would end quick and end fast but it was long and costly

Identify the main Southern strength during the Civil War

Their genrals’s and leadership