Chapter 15

Lincoln’s Cabinet

balanced

William H. Seward

secretary of state

Salmon P. Chase

secretary of the treasury

Fort Sumter

first shot of Civil War

Major Robert Anderson

commander who surrendered Fort Sumter

Upper South secession

Virginia North Carolina Arkansas Tennessee

Bull Run

first big battle of the war / Manassas

Stonewall Jackson

Confederate general famous for stand at Bull Run

Anaconda Plan

name of North's war plan

George B. McClellan

Union general who always hesitated in battle

Greenbacks

Union money during the war

Copperheads

another name for Peace Democrats

Conscription

compelling men into military service

Ulysses S. Grant

Union general who captured Vicksburg

Vicksburg

city Grant captured giving Union control of Mississippi River

Shiloh

major bloody battle in Tennessee April 1862

Monitor

name of the first Union ironclad ship

Merrimack

Confederate ironclad (later Virginia)

Peninsula Campaign

McClellan’s slow advance toward Richmond 1862

Antietam

place where McClellan stopped Lee's first invasion of the North

Emancipation Proclamation

freed slaves in areas in rebellion Jan 1 1863

Ambrose Burnside

Union general from Rhode Island

Joseph Hooker

Union general who lost the Battle of Chancellorsville

Gettysburg

place where Meade stopped Lee's second invasion of the North

George Meade

Union commander at Gettysburg

Appomattox Court House

place where Lee surrendered to Grant

William Tecumseh Sherman

Union general who captured Atlanta and led March to the Sea

Thaddeus Stevens

leader of the Radicals in the House

Charles Sumner

leader of Radicals in the Senate

Edwin M. Stanton

Lincoln's secretary of war

Elizabeth Blackwell

first female doctor in the US

Fort Sumter

fort where the Civil War started

Abraham Lincoln

boldly exceeded presidential power limits during war

Jefferson Davis

Confederate president

Robert E. Lee

took command after Johnston wounded

Trent Affair

diplomatic crisis with Britain 1861

Draft Riots

major riots in New York City July 1863

Massachusetts 54th

famous all-black Union regiment

Homestead Act 1862

gave 160 acres to settlers

Morrill Land Grant Act

supported higher education with public land

National Banking Act 1863

provided uniform currency