Chapter 14 - The Civil War

President James Buchanan

________ told Congress in December 1860 that no state had the right to secede from the Union but suggested that the federal government had no authority to stop a state if it did.

Braxton Bragg

________, who succeeded Johnston as commander of the Confederate army in the West.

Abraham Lincoln

When ________ arrived in Washington early in 1861, many politicians- noting his lack of national experience and his folksy, unpretentious manner- considered him a minor politician from the prairies, a man whom the real leaders of his party would easily control.

US Sanitary Commission

The ________, an organization of civilian volunteers led by social reformer Dorothea Dix, mobilized large numbers of female nurses to serve in fi eld hospitals.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

________, speaking for much of the North, said at the time:"I do not see how a barbarous community and a civilized community can constitute one state ..

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

________ and Susan B. Anthony, who together founded the National Womans Loyal League in 1863, worked simultaneously for the abolition of slavery and the awarding of suffrage to women.

Jackson

In the brilliant Valley campaign of May 4- June 9, 1862, ________ defeated two separate Union forces and slipped away before McDowell could catch him.

Lincoln

The Union Party nominated ________ for another term as president and Andrew Johnson of Tennessee, a War Democrat who had opposed his states decision to secede, for the vice presidency.

African Americans

In 1864, Confederate soldiers killed more than 260 ________ after capturing them in Tennessee.

Homestead Act

The ________ of 1862 permitted any citizen or prospective citizen to claim 160 acres of public land and to purchase it for a small fee after living on it for five years.

1862

Union operations were being directed in ________ by George B. McClellan, commander of the Army of the Potomac and the most controversial general of the war.

Congress

In 1863, the ________ enacted an income tax- which planters could pay "in- kind "(as a percentage of their produce)

Ulysses S Grant

In the spring of 1863, ________ was driving at Vicksburg, Mississippi, one of the Confederacys two remaining strongholds on the southern Mississippi River.

northern Virginia

The Union and the Confederacy fought their first major battle of the war in ________.

Confederate congress

The ________ tried at first not to tax the people directly but to requisition funds from the individual states.

Montgomery

In February 1861, representatives of the seven seceded states met at ________, Alabama, and announced the formation of a new nation: the Confederate States of America.

New Orleans

When the Union captured ________ and much of southern Louisiana, slaves refused to work for their former masters, even though the Union occupiers had not made any provisions for liberating African Americans.

McClellan

________ was a superb trainer of men, but he often appeared reluctant to commit his troops to battle.

major food riots

There were ________, some led by women, in Georgia, North Carolina, and Alabama in 1863, as well as a large demonstration in Richmond that quickly turned violent.

General Joseph Hooker

At the beginning of 1863, ________ was in command of the still formidable Army of the Potomac, whose 120, 000 troops remained north of the Rappahannock, opposite Fredericksburg.

Battle of Bull Run

On July 21, in the First ________, or First Battle of Manassas, McDowell almost succeeded in dispersing the Confederate forces.

National Bank Acts

The ________ of 1863- 1864 created a new national banking system.

Congress

In 1861, ________ passed the Confiscation Act, which declared that all slaves used for "insurrectionary "purposes.

Lincoln

________ gave Grant a relatively free hand, but the general always submitted at least the broad outlines of his plans to the president for advance approval.

Lincoln

________ was a successful commander in chief because he realized that numbers and resources were on his side and because he took advantage of the Norths material advantages.