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
