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Test Chapter 14
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10th Grade
02/01/2015

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Anaconda Plan
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effort to blockade the south and capture Mississippi river
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Army of Northern Virginia
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South's main army in the east
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Army of Potomac
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North's main army in the east
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Copperheads
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democrat who were for peace, sympathized the south and opposed Lincoln
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March of Sea
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Serman's destruction of Georgia
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Monitor
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northern ironclad with a revolving gun turret
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Peninsular campaign
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early unsuccessful attempt to capture the southern capital
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Valley campaign
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diversion of 2 union armies by a small confederate force
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Virginia
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Southern ironclad that threaten to break the blockade
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Wilderness campaign
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continual fight in the woods North of Richmond
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Battle of the Antietam
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Bloodiest day of the civil war
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During the war Lincoln sometimes acted
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Beyond his constitutional powers
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Civil War
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bloodiest war in American history
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Pickett's Charge
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was the last ditch effort by Confederates to win at Gettysburg
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The confederates
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Lost most of the major battles in the West
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Sherman estimated his army estimated
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one hundred million dollars of southern property
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Inflation and shortage
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devastated agriculture in the North
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Appomattox Court House
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surrender of the army of N. Virginia
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Battle of Chattanooga
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Confederate loss that opened a door for Sheman's march
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Battle of Antietam
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resulted in Emancipation Proclamation
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Battle of Gettysburg
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Marked the end of the South's offensive capabilities
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Battle of Shiloh
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Grant's army was caught "napping"
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1st Battle of Manassas
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1st major land battle of the war
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Fort Henry & Donelson
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opened Tennessee to invasion
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7day's battle
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South's successful defense of the capital
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Siege of Petersburg
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effort to capture the rail center feeding Richmond
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Siege of Vicksburg
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loss that gave North total control of the Mississippi River
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West Virginia
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state unconstitutionaly admitted in the union during the war
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Gettysburg Address
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famous speech told by Lincoln during the civil war
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Conscrition
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drafting
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South's strategy for victory
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to wage defensive war & outlast the North's will to fight
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Central issue that sparked the war
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state's rights
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South advantage at the outset of the war
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Superior military leadership
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When did Grant cut his arm off from is supply bases to surprise the enemy
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when he captured Vicksburg
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Why did the North attempt to capture Mississippi
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Mississippi divided the confederacy in 2
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Outcome of Joseph E Johnston's attack at Fair oaks
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Robert E Lee was promoted to command the army
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Significance of the clash between the Monitor & Virginia
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age of wooden ships became obsolete
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Where the most fighting was in the East
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Virginia
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Left the army because of alleged drunkness
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U.S Grant
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Battle that was clear cut defeat of the army of N. Virginia
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Battle of Gettysburg
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True about the Peninsular campaign
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the north lost more major battle than the south, union reached the outskirts of Richmond, the southern troops were outnumbered during the campaign
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General that played critical support role in Confederate victories
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Thomas J. Stonewall Jackson
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Ensured Lincoln's re-election in 1864
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Capture of Atlanta
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Grant's greatest defeat
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Battle of Cold Harbor
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Caused major riot N.Y in 1863
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Conscription
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Why Grant continued to fight after suffering so many losses
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Because he could replace his losses while he South couldn't
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Border state
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slave states that didn't secede from the union
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What almost brought Britain into the war
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Trent affair
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2ways the war benefited the Northern home front
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began to produce more food more that they had before likewise heavy industries such as iron profited from the army such as iron for cannons, ships, and other armanments
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Strategy behind General Winfield Scott's Anaconda plan
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Scott proposed to blockade Southern ports to compound the Confederacy's supply problem and capture of the Mississippi's river to split the Confederacy to hamper its ability to move men and supplies from East to West
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