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| 6000638880 | Fort Sumter | Federal fort in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina; the confederate attack on the fort marked the start of the Civil War | 0 | |
| 6000640958 | Border States | States bordering the North: Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky and Missouri. They were slave states, but did not secede. | 1 | |
| 6000643569 | West Virginia | Became a state during the Civil War because the western counties of Virginia did NOT want to secede from the Union | 2 | |
| 6000645030 | Trent Affair | A union vessel during the Civil War that intercepted a British ship evacuating confederate soldiers; almost led to conflict | 3 | |
| 6000653719 | Alabama ship | A Confederate commerce-raider that captured 60 U.S vessels before being sunk off the coast of France. The Confederates purchased warships from British shipyards and did serious damage to U.S merchant ships. After, Britain agreed to pay the U.S back for the damage caused by the commerce-raiders. | 4 | |
| 6000665686 | Laird Rams | Two confederate warships being constructed in British shipyards, they were eventually seized by the British for British use to remain neutral in the Civil War. | 5 | |
| 6000667163 | Dominion of Canada | the loose confederation of Ontario(upper Canada), Quebec(lower Canada), Nove Scotia, and New Brunswich, created by teh british North America Act in 1867. Creating to help canadians from the union | 6 | |
| 6000677076 | writ of habeas corpus | a court order requiring jailers to explain to a judge why they are holding a prisoner in custody | 7 | |
| 6000679990 | New york Draft Riots | July 1863 just after the Battle at Gettysburg. Mobs of Irish working-class men and women roamed the streets for four days until federal troops suppressed them. They loathed the idea of being drafted to fight a war on behalf of slaves who, once freed, would compete with them for jobs. | 8 | |
| 6000683447 | Morrill Tariff Act | This was an act passed by Congress in 1861 to meet the cost of the war. It raised the taxes on shipping from 5 to 10 percent however later needed to increase to meet the demanding cost of the war. This was just one the new taxes being passed to meet the demanding costs of the war. Although they were still low to today's standers they still raked in millions of dollars. | 9 | |
| 6000693547 | Greenbacks | Name given to paper money issued by the government during the Civil War, so called because the back side was printed with green ink. They were not redeemable for gold, but $300 million were issued anyway. Farmers hit by the depression wanted to inflate the notes to cover losses, but Grant vetoed an inflation bill and greenbacks were added to permanent circulation. In 1879 the federal government finally made greenbacks redeemable for gold. | 10 | |
| 6000763744 | National Banking System | 11 |
