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| General of Union army that organized the Army of the Potomatic |
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| commanding general for confederate army |
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| final commanding general of Union army assgned by president Lincoln |
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| Served as superintendant of nurses during civil war and later created the first mental asylums |
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| Organized the AMerican Red Cross during the civil war that helped nurse wounded soldiers |
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| First modern general. served as Union army general that began the idea of total warfare. |
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| Fort at which the first major battle of the civil war took place. Union army won. |
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| First major land battle of civil war, fought in Manassas, Virginia. Confederates won. |
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| Union Navy took command of Atlantic and Gulf Coast and blocked confederate ships from leaving or entering |
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| Confederates tried to use cotton trade as a diplomatic way to force foreign nations to help the confederacy |
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| permitted the confiscation of any of property, including slaves, being used to support the Confederate insurrection |
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| status for certain escaped slaves or those who came into the possession of Union forces. |
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| Emancipation Proclamation |
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| Lincoln's proclamation that set free to all slaves that the Union army won. freed 3.1 million slaves |
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| established a system of national charters for banks that created currency to support the union army during the civil war |
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| allowed union citizens to land outside the 13 colonies after filing an application, improving the land, and filing for deed of title. |
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| Union promoted construction of transcontinential railroads by offering government bonds and the grants of land to railroad companies |
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| Bill that allowed for the creation of land grant colleges |
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| Allowed Union women to contribute to war by becoming nurses and sanitary workers |
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| violent disturbances in New York City that were the culmination of discontent with new laws passed by Congress to draft men to fight in the ongoing American Civil War |
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| Union Army defeated the confederates at Vicksburg |
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| Union Army (Grant) defeated Confederates (Lee) at Gettysburg forcing the confederate army to surrender |
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| Speech given by Lincoln at Gettysburg that gave Union Army motivation that eventually led them to defeat tghe Confederates at Gettysburg |
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| Sherman's Army captured most of Georgia and waged total war on all captured cities |
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| Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Speech |
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| Lincoln's inagural speech after the Civil war. Talked about reconstruction and ending slavery. |
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| Democrats in the North that opposed the American Civil War |
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| Suspension of habeas corpus |
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| Lincoln banned allowing a soldier to hold up the body of whom he murdered to a crowd |
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| Courthouse located in virginia that was built post civil war by the Union Army supporters |
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