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| 5644940508 | 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 | |
| 5644940509 | Border States | States bordering the North: Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky and Missouri. They were slave states, but did not secede. | 1 | |
| 5644940510 | West Virginia | Became a state during the Civil War because the western counties of Virginia did NOT want to secede from the Union | 2 | |
| 5644940511 | Trent affair | a Union warship intercepted Trent, the British ship that the two men were on and arrested them. Britain demanded the release of the two men and threatened to enter the war on the side of the Confederacy | 3 | |
| 5644940512 | Alabama | former Confederate state that returned to Union in 1868 | 4 | |
| 5644940513 | Laird Rams | Two Iron Clad ships being constructed for the confederacy by the British. The British decided to buy them themselves to avoid conflict. | 5 | |
| 5644940514 | Dominion of Canada | Unified Canadian government created by Britain to bolster Canadians against potential attacks or overtures from the US. | 6 | |
| 5644940515 | Writ habeas corpus | Petition requiring law enforcement officers to present detained individuals before the court to examine the legality of the arrest. Protects individuals from arbitrary state action. Suspended by Lincoln during the civil war. | 7 | |
| 5644940516 | 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 | |
| 5644940517 | Morrill tariff act | Increased duties back up to 1846 levels to raise revenue for the Civil War. | 9 | |
| 5644940518 | greenbacks | Name for Union paper money not backed by gold or silver. Value would fluctuate depending on status of the war (plural) | 10 | |
| 5644940519 | national banking system | Network of member banks that could issue currency against purchased government bonds. Created during the Civil War to establish a stable national currency and stimulate the sale of war bonds | 11 | |
| 5644940520 | Homestead Act | 1862 - Provided free land in the West to anyone willing to settle there and develop it. Encouraged westward migration. | 12 | |
| 5644940521 | US sanitary commission | Organization developed to provide medical supplies and assistance to Union armies in the field | 13 |
