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ANACONDA PLAN
The Anaconda Plan was a strategy created by Union General Winfield Scott in 1861, early on in the Civil War. It called for strangling the Southern Confederacy, much like an Anaconda -
CONTRABANDS
determined that the US would no longer return escaped slaves who went to Union lines and classified them as "contraband of war", or captured enemy property. -
BATTLE OF ANTIETAM
Over 23,000 men fell as casualties in the one-day Battle of Antietam, making it the bloodiest day in American history -
MILITIA ACT
was legislation enacted by the 37th United States Congress during the American Civil War that allowed African-Americans to participate as war laborers and soldiers -
HOMESTEAD ACT
provided that any adult citizen, or intended citizen, who had never borne arms against the U.S. government could claim 160 acres of surveyed government land. -
MORRILL LAND GRANT COLLEGE ACT
the Morrill Act provided each state with 30,000 acres of Federal land for each member in their Congressional delegation. -
EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION
granted freedom to the slaves in the Confederate States if the States did not return to the Union by January 1, 1863. In addition, under this proclamation, freedom would only come to the slaves if the Union won the war. By the President of the United States of America: A Proclamation. -
BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG
fought from July 1 to July 3, 1863, is considered the most important engagement of the American Civil War. -
BATTLE OF VICKSBURG
was the final major military action in the Vicksburg campaign of the American Civil War -
COPPERHEAD DEMOCRATS
gained control of the party platform and inserted a plank calling the war a failure and advocating immediate peace negotiations -
ELECTION OF 1864
It was decided by the House of Representatives. B. It included a vote to abolish slavery -
SHERMAN'S MARCH TO THE SEA
Union General William T. Sherman led some 60,000 soldiers on a 285-mile march from Atlanta to Savannah, Georgia. The purpose of Sherman's March to the Sea was to frighten Georgia's civilian population into abandoning the Confederate cause. -
APPOMATTOX COURT HOUSE
near the town of Appomattox Court House, Virginia, Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his Army of Northern Virginia to Union General Ulysses S. Grant -
THIRTEENTH AMENDMENT
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
