Terms
The Confederates' belief that their cotton was so important to the British and French economies that they would recognize the South as an independent nation, supplying it with loans and arms
What is King Cotton?
The Union guidelines for war, ruled that soldiers and prisoners must be treated equally without respect to color or race
What is the Lieber Code?
The first land battle of the civil war, resulting in a Confederate victory that demonstrated the rebellion's strength
What was the Bull Run/Battle of Manassas?
The U.S. president from 1861 to 1865
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
Impound
What is to take legal custody of something else; seize?
A legal writ forcing government authorities to justify their arrest and detention of an individual
What is habeas corpus?
An organization that supported the Union through professional and volunteer medical aid.
What is the U.S. Sanitary Commission?
Abraham Lincoln's November 1863 speech that dedicated a national cemetery at the Gettysburg battle field.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
The members of the Republican Party who were bitterly opposed to slavery and to southern slave owners since the mid-1850s
Who are Radical Republicans?
Havoc
What is chaos after destruction?
A tax adopted by the Confederacy that required all farmers to turn over a tenth of their crops and livestock to the government for military use.
What is the one-tenth tax?
An organization of Unionist women that worked to support the war effort in hopes the Union would acknowledge women's patriotism with voting rights after the war.
What is the Woman's Loyal National League?
President Abraham Lincoln's order issued on January 1, 1863 that legally abolished slavery in all states that remained out of the Union.
*important to know: it did not immediately free a single slave but it did signal an end to the institution of slavery
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
Slaves who fled plantations and sought protection behind Union lines during the Civil War
Who are "contrabands"?
Intransigence
What is the refusal to compromise?
What is the Legal Tender Act of 1862?
An order that granted confiscated land to formerly enslaved families in Georgia and South Carolina so they could farm independently.
*was later reversed by policymakers
What was the Special Field Order No. 15?
A battle that took place on September 17, 1862 and remains the bloodiest single day in U.S. military history. It halted the Confederate invasion of Maryland
What was the Battle of Antietam?
The Union nurse who founded the American Red Cross
Who was Clara Barton?
Furor
What is frantic outbreak; uproar?
The system for selecting individuals for compulsory military service.
What is a draft (conscription)?
The philosophy and tactics used by William T. Sherman, by which he treated civilians as combatants
What is hard war?
A major battle in which the Union army was caught by surprise at Shiloh but was still able to manage a victory. Up to that point, it was the deadliest battle of the Civil War.
What was the Battle of Shiloh?
Who was Ulysses S. Grant?
Armistice
What is a temporary truce to stop fighting a war?