Key Terms
This proclaimed by Lincoln on January 1, 1863 abolished slavery in all of areas of the South in rebellion.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
The South's main crop and bargaining chip with foreign nations to purchase goods or goodwill during the war.
What is King Cotton?
With the Election of this man in 1860 the South seceded from the union.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Over__________troops died during the Civil War.
What is 600,000?
This Amendment in 1865 ended slavery.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This compromise had two parts, a Constitutional amendment to protect slavery where it existed and a permanent 36 by 30 line to extend into future territory in an attempt to preserve the Union.
What is the Crittenden Compromise?
The North paid for the war by raising tariffs, raised bonds and printing this as currency.
What are greenbacks?
This man became President of the Confederacy with the secession of the South.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
This general was known as a "Hard Warrior" who used total war on both civilians and Confederate troops alike on his assault of the South.
Who is William T. Sherman?
This was a term for Democrats who spoke out against the war, and wanted an immediate peace settlement with the South. They were also referred to as Peace Democrats.
What are Copperheads?
These existed both in the North and the South to conscript men into the military. Exemptions in this process oftentimes enraged working class men and farmers.
What was the draft (conscription)?
This was Sherman's destruction of Atlanta and path of destruction on his 300 mile movement to Savannah.
What is Sherman's March to the Sea?
This general was replaced by Lincoln and later ran against him in the election of 1864 as a Democrat.
Who is George McClellan?
The states of Maryland, Delaware, Missouri, Kentucky, and later West Virginia maintained slavery but stayed out of the war, were often referred to as these.
What are border states?
The Republicans in 1864 briefly changed their name to The National Union Party, and ran this Democrat from Tennessee as Lincoln's running mate.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
This was suspended by Lincoln in border states, and allowed Lincoln to imprison Confederate sympathizers without trial.
What is Haebus Corpus?
This was a campaign waged in the Shenandoah Valley to punish farmers that aided the Confederacy by burning all the crops and farmland in the surrounding valley.
What is the scorched-earth campaign?
This man commanded the Confederate forces during the war and was considered a great general and tactician.
Who was Robert E. Lee?
Who are women?
Who are African American soldiers?
This was waged by the North particularly Sherman in his destruction of the South where he waged war on not only troops but civilians and the means of production. This term could also be used to describe the using of all a nation's resources to wage war.
What is Total War?
These Republicans were very aggressive in their attack on slavery, and later proposed some of the most progressive efforts in relationship to freed African Americans.
Who are Radical Republicans?
This man was appointed commander of all Union forces in 1864, and was known as a capable commander that relentlessly committed his troops to the battle.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
These two battles both in 1863, one in the South on the Mississippi, and the other in the North in Pennsylvania changed the outcome of the war in favor of the Union.
What is Vicksburg and Gettysburg?
This fort was attacked by Confederate forces on April 12th, 1861 beginning hostilities in the Civil War.
What was Fort Sumter?