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  1. ironclad
    19th century warship with armor plating
  2. emancipated
    to be free from legal, political issues
  3. siege
    A military operation which enemy forces surround a town or building, cutting off essential supplies
  4. greenback
    a dollar bill
  5. bounty
    monetary gift or reward
  6. copperhead
    Democrat against civil war
  7. confiscate
    to take away with authority
  8. conscription
    military enlistment
  9. assassinate
    to murder someone important
  10. martial law
    military governmen tinvolving the suspention of ordinary law
  11. total war
    war with no rules or restrictions
  12. union commander at gettsyburg
    Meade
  13. Union draft law
    Conscription act
  14. Mcclellan's attempt to capture richmond
    peninsular campaign
  15. north's greatest advantage
    population
  16. turning point in was
    Gettysburg
  17. most common medical treatment
    amputaion
  18. prison camp for unuin solders
    andersonville
  19. leader of march to sea
    Sherman
  20. confederate ironclad
    Merrimac
  21. bloodiest day of fighting in west
    shiloh
  22. lincoln's order freeing confed. slaves
    Emancipation Proclamation
  23. union ironclad
    Monitor
  24. Union shut down confederate RR
    Chattanooga
  25. Lee's greatest victory
    Chancellorsville
  26. Lee's right hand man
    Stonewall Jackson
  27. lincoln was shot here
    Fords Theater
  28. worst draft riots
    New York
  29. Lee's first battle in charge?
    Seven days
  30. union stratagy
    Anaconda plan
  31. Anaconda plan involved
    • blockade coast
    • capture richmond
    • capture mississippi
  32. first major union victory in east
    Antietam
  33. hero of civil war
    Grant
  34. attpemts to raise money using peoples wages
    income tax
  35. lincoln's assassin
    John Wilks Booth
  36. Admiral who captured New ORleans
    Farragut
  37. English ship captured by Union
    Trent
  38. Where did Lee surrender?
    Appomattox
  39. Who photographed the war?
    Matthew Brady
  40. WHo founded the Red Cross
    Clara Barton
  41. Four Virginia campaign battles
    • Spotsylvania
    • Cold Harbor
    • Petersburg
    • Wilderness
  42. Fredricksburg
    attacked 14 times on open field, Union shot down
  43. What happened at Vicksburg
    Union gained control over Mississippi
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