Chapter 10 : The Civil War

Anaconda Plan

Civil War strategy devised by President Abraham Lincoln and General Winfield Scott by which Union forces would establish a naval blockade of southern ports and take control of the Mississippi River in order to squeeze in on the South from the east and west and defeat it

habeas corpus

Constitutional protection against unlawful imprisonment

Women's service

Women made great contributions to the war effort. They collected supplies and served as soldiers, spies, medical personnel, and farm and factory workers.

embargo

a government order that restricts or prohibits trade of a particular good or with a particular nation

freedmen

a man who has been freed from slavery

naval blockade

a military maneuver in which one side sets up a line of ships to block entry into or departure from the ports of the opposing side

Emancipation Proclamation

an edict issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, to free the slaves in the Confederate states

Gettysburg Address

an inspirational speech given by President Abraham Lincoln on November 19, 1863, at the Civil War battle site of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, in memory of the Union soldiers who died there trying, in Lincoln's words, to protect the ideal of freedom upon which the United States had been founded

Copperhead

during the Civil War, a nickname Republicans used to describe those Northerners, mostly Democrats, who opposed the war and were sympathetic to the South

54th Massachusetts Regiment

in the Civil War, the first entirely African American regiment of the Union Army

conscription

military draft

Battle of Antietam

(September 17, 1862) Union victory; bloodiest one-day battle in the Civil War

Union and Confederacy Resources

Union had more railroads and monetary resources, The south's economy relied heavily on agriculture.

emancipation

the act of freeing slaves from bondage

war of attrition

the wearing down of one side by the other through exhaustion of soldiers and resources