Civil War Vocab

paper currency issued by the Union Treasury during the Civil War

Network of member banks that could issue currency against purchased government bonds

British built and manned Confederate warship that raided Union shipping during the Civil War

established by Congress during the Civil War to oversee military

threatened to bring British into the war on the side of the Confederacy after a Union warship stopped a British steamer

Constitutional amendment prohibiting all forms of slavery and involuntary servitude

Confederate forces fired the first shots of the war after the Union forces attempted to provision the fort

Northern democrats who obstructed the war by attacking Lincoln, the draft, and emancipation

a coalition party of prowar Democrats and Republicans formed during the 1864 election

Increased duties back up to the 1846 levels to raise revene for the Civil War

Two well-armed ironclad warships constructed for the Confederacy by a British firm

five slave states - that did not secede during the Civil War. To keep these states in the Union

uprising, mostly of working-class Irish Americans, in protest of the draft

declared all slaves in rebelling states to be free but did not affect slavery in the border states

a federal law that sold settlers 160 acres for $30 if they lived on it for 5 years

site where Robert E Lee surrendered to Ulysses S Grant

Lincoln's often quoted speech, delivered at the dedication of the cemetery at Gettysburg battlefield

law enforcements officers to present detained individuals before the court to examine the legality of the arrest