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15 Cards in this Set
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Clara Barton
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along with Dorothea Dix, was the superintendent of nurses for the Union army and helped transform nursing from a lowly profession to a respected profession
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Edwin Stanton
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was Lincoln's secretary of war and with his organization he was able to led the Union to victory
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William Seward
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was the secretary of state under Lincoln and Johnson. He purchased Alaska from Russia.
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Morrill Tariff Act
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In early 1861, after enough anti-protection Southern members had seceded, Congress passed the Morrill Tariff Act. It was a high protective tariff that increased duties 5%-10%. The increases were designed to raise additional revenue and provide more protection for the prosperous manufacturers. A protective tariff became identified with the Republican Party.
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Draft Riots
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Due to lack of volunteers, Congress passed in 1863 a federal draft law. Men who were called in the draft could pay $300 in order to buy a replacement. This was meant with riots especially in New York were for days the city was filled with pillaging and death.
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Andrew Johnson
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is Abraham Lincoln's vice president in 1864 and in the following term. He later becomes our 17th president.
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Robert E. Lee
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offered to lead the Union in the civil war decided to be the general for the south in the civil war. He would later surrender at Appomotax courthouse
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Ulysses S. Grant
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Not Lincoln's first choice for general, an alcoholic, he lead the union army to victory.
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George B. McClellan
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Known as "Tardy George" was given command of the the union army in 1861 and his troops on the infamous Peninsula Campaign toward the South capital.
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William T. Sherman
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Sherman infamous for his Sherman's March towards Savannah and then later Columbia. He was a believer in total war and had many military victories.
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"Merrimack"
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1862 The biggest Confederate threat to the Union came in the form of an old U.S. warship reconditioned and plated with iron railroad rails: the Virginia (formerly called the Merrimack), which threatened to break the Union blockade, but fortunately, the Monitor arrived just in time to fight the Merrimack to a standstill, and the Confederate ship was destroyed later by the South to save it from the North.
The lessons of the Monitor vs. the Merrimack were that boats needed to be steam-powered and armored, henceforth. |
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Emancipation Proclamation
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Was delivered on finally on 1863 after the battle of Antietam that said that all slaves in the uncontrolled southern territory were now free and added a moral aspect to the war
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13th Amendment
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1865 Legally prohibited slavery in the states.
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Copperheads
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were those who were totally against the war, and denounced the president (the “Illinois Ape”) and his so-called “nigger war.”
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Battle of Antietam
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1862 McClellan’s men found a copy of Lee’s plans (as wrapping paper for cigars) and were able to stop the Southerners at Antietam Creek on September 17, 1862 in one of the bloodiest days of the Civil War.
Jefferson Davis was never so close to victory as he was that day, since European powers were very close to helping the South, but after the Union army displayed unexpected power at Antietam, that help faded. |
