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- True or False: At the Democratic party convention of 1864, the openly antiwar Copperheads enjoyed little influence.
- True or False: The Northern Democrats were deeply divided between War Democrats who supported the war effort and peace Democrats who sought a negotiated settlement with the South.
- True or False: The Northern victories at Vicksburg and Gettysburg effectively spelled doom for the Confederacy's efforts to win its independence on the battlefield.
- True or False: In the final year of the conflict, Grant and Sherman waged a total war that aimed to destroy the South's economy and morale as well as defeat its armies.
- Cause and Effect: Lincoln's careful use of moral suasion, politics, and military force
- Helped transform nursing into a respected profession during the Civil War.
- Leader whose conflict with states' rights advocates and rigid personality harmed his ability to mobilize and direct his nation's war effort.
- Popular term for the paper currency that was issued by the wartime Union government to help finance the war.
- True or False: Lee's invasion of Pennsylvania in 1863 was intended to win the war by encouraging the Northern peace movement and bringing foreign intervention on behalf of the Confederacy.
- Federal law of 1862 that offered free land in the West to pioneers willing to settle on it, even during the Civil War.
- Violent protests by laregly Irish working class citizens against being forced to serve in a war against slavery that they opposed.
- Head of a major New York bank that marketed war bonds for the Union government at a profit.
- Union agency organized by Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell and others to provide field hospitals, supplies, and nurses to U.S. soldiers.
- Constitutional protection against arbitrary arrest and imprisonment that was suspended by President Lincoln on the grounds that the Union was at risk of destruction
- Slippery French dictator who ignored the Monroe Doctrine by intervening in Mexican politics.
- Robert E. Lee's brilliant military assistant for much of the Civil War whose nickname symoblized his strength and determination.
- Leading organizer of medical services for the South, who was made a captain in he Confederate army for her efforts.
- An Old World aristocrat, manipulated as a puppet in Mexico, who was shot when his puppet-master deserted him.
- American envoy whose shrewd diplomacy helped keep Britain neutral during the Civil War.
- New profession that Clara Barton and others first opened to many women during the Civil War.