Civil War DSST

Nat Turner

Pastor who led one of the most serious slave revolts

Clara Barton

Union Nurse - Started American Red Cross

Fort Sumter – 1861

Anderson vs. Beauregard – CSA won, started civil war

First Manassas (Bull Run) – 1861

McDowell vs. Beauregard/ Jackson – CSA won, 1st Battle

Shiloh – 1862

Grant/Sherman vs. Johnston/ Beauregard – Union won

Second Manassas (Bull Run)

Pope vs. Jackson – CSA won

Antietam – 1862

McClellan vs. Lee - Union won, bloodiest day in U.S. history

Fredericksburg – 1862

Burnside vs. Lee – CSA won

Chancellorsville – 1863

Hooker vs. Lee/Jackson – CSA won, considered Lee’s greatest

Chickamauga – 1863

Rosecrans vs. Bragg – CSA won, Largest battle in West

Chattanooga – 1863

Grant vs. Bragg – Union won

Stones River (Murfreesboro) – 1863

Rosecrans vs. Bragg – Union won

Vicksburg – 1863

Grant vs. Johnston – Union won, split Confederacy in half

Who are the Copperheads and what was their impact?

Northerners who were peace democrats, insulting term

Who were Carpetbaggers?

Northerners who exploited the South for profit, unwelcome visitors,

Who are scalawags?

White southerners who helped carpetbaggers

What is the significance of Wirz (Andersonville POW Camp, Georgia)

Wirz is commander of a prison camp (Andersonville) where Prisoners were treated cruelly, he shot prisoners without warning for crossing a stockade line, 10,000 Northern soldiers died from neglect, he was the only confederate soldier executed by the North

What was the role of Custer at Appomattox Station?

Drove off two confederate divisions with one division and stole supply train and artillery

What are the total estimated casualties in the Civil War?

620,000- 700,000

Where was the bloodiest single day?

Antitem, sept 17, 1862, casualties 26,134

What was the last confederate victory?

Swahona Gap

Lee’s Surrender took place here

Appamatox Courthouse

This battle divided the South

Battle of Vicksburg

Frederick Douglass

Abolitionist and writer who led the attack on slavery in the mid 1800s by describing his own enslavement

William Lloyd Garrison

Abolitionist and editor of the newspaper “The Liberator”

Angelina and Sarah Grimke

Southern abolitionists who had seen the evils of slavery and spoke out against it

Underground Railroad

a system of secret routes that escaping slaves followed to freedom

Levi and Catherine Coffin

Quakers from Indiana who helped slaves escape by hiding them in their house

Harriet Tubman

Abolitionist and underground railroad conductor and spy for the Union Army during the Civil War

Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Spoke for the rights of women at a convention they held in Seneca Falls NY

Sojourner Truth

Slave who spoke out about the evils of slavery. She gave speeches in support or abolition and women's rights

Which Union leader employed psychological warfare?

Sherman, burning everything, stole possessions, killed livestock

What did Davis do after Richmond was taken?

Evacuated to Danville (new confederate capitol), packed his family,

Who were 'Sherman's Sentinels'?

Chimneys of burned out houses

What was 'The Great BBQ'?

Economic term describing corruption following the war

Doctrine of Nullification

doctrine that States can opt out of federal laws (Calhoun) - SC threatened to secede over a tariff

What were Europe's actions (or lack thereof) during the war?

Supply of war ships and materials to the confederacy

Could Europe do without cotton from the south?

Yes. Britain imported cotton from India

How did each side pay for the war?

taxes

Underground Railroad?

Loosely organized system organized by both whites and free blacks to help escaped slaves flee to Canada or safe areas of free states

What was the USS Merrimack was later named?

CSS Virginia

Who designed the USS Monitor?

Swedish Engineer John Ericson

What is the significance of Robert Shaw and 54th Massachusetts Infantry?

First Civil War Black Unit - he motivated his troops to fight

What was used to quickly transport soldiers to battles?

Trains

What is the Command of Army Act?

Required President Johnson to issue all military orders through the General of the Army (Grant)

What was the motto of the Copperheads?

“the constitution as it is and the Union as it was”

Was Antietam was considered a narrow Union or Confederate victory?

Union

What was the Fugitive Slave Law?

Part of the 1850 compromise - all runaway slaves be brought back to masters

United States Sanitary Commission

provided battlefield relief and coordinated local supply efforts

Clement Vallandigham

Ohio Unionist Copperhead - anti war - pro confederate