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| 778861712 | Recognition | official acceptance | |
| 778861713 | Draft | the ability of a nation to conscript able-bodies male white citizens into the army | |
| 778861714 | Anaconda Plan | General Scott's plan to march through, destory, and constrict the south ultimately cutting off supplies up the Mississippi to weaken shipping and commerce. | |
| 778861715 | Contraband | Illegal materials smuggled across lines. | |
| 778861716 | War or Attrition | One side waits out the other side until the enemy has to surrender from lack of food and supplies. | |
| 778861717 | Emancipation Proclamation | Proclamation that freed slaves in territories in rebellion. | |
| 778861718 | Thirteenth Amendment | Freedom from slavery | |
| 778861719 | Siege | A battle where a fort of secured area is taken or is attempted to be taken. Cannons and artillery were needed to successfully bombard enemy battlements. | |
| 778861720 | Writ of Habeas Corpus | Required the court to determine if someone is lawfully imprisoned. | |
| 778861721 | Martial Law | When a government governs with an iron fist using the military. Citizen's rights are usually disregarded to preserve order. | |
| 778861722 | Copperheads | Democrats who were pro-war but also pro-slavery because they feared freed blacks would flood to the north and take northern jobs. | |
| 778861723 | Secede | To break away from; in this case when the south seceded from the north to form it's own country. | |
| 778861724 | Monitor/Merrimack | Different ironclad warships utilized by the north and south respectively. | |
| 778861725 | Appomattox courthouse | the place of Lee's surrender | |
| 778861726 | George McClellan | ran in the election of 1864 against Lincoln, nominated by the democrats, his party stood for ending the war, lost against Lincoln. | |
| 778861727 | Robert E. Lee | Important southern military leader. Called for a draft requireing military service. | |
| 778861728 | Stonewall Jackson | Part of the Confederate Army and defeated the Union in the 1st battle of Bull Run | |
| 778861729 | Ulysses S Grant | led several successful campaigns, captured Fort Henry, protected important water routes for Confederates. | |
| 778861730 | William T. Sherman | General in the Union Army who received recognition for his outstanding command of military strategy as well as conducting total war against the South by capturing Atlanta, Georgia. | |
| 778861731 | Andrew Johnson | Became president when Lincon died, he opposed radical republicans who passed reconstruction acts over his veto. He was the first president to be impeached and survived only by one vote. | |
| 778861732 | John Wilkes Booth | Assassinated Lincoln | |
| 778861733 | Abraham Lincoln | president of the Us at the beginning of the Civil War, inaugurated after seven states already seceded, Wanted to end slavery, but was killed. | |
| 778861734 | Jefferson Davis | President of the Confederate States of America | |
| 778861735 | Fort Sumter | Federal fort on an island occupied by federal triips. Captured by the confederacy and was the start of the war. | |
| 778861736 | Bull Run | A wake up call to the North. South won again. | |
| 778861737 | Antietam | The souths plan to attack on Northern soil to get European attention and endorsement while hurting the public opinion of the North. | |
| 778861738 | Chancellorsville | Lee's greatest victory. Stonewall Jackson was killed, costing the South battles later on. | |
| 778861739 | Gettysburg | Turning point in the war. North cut off the South's supplies and ended victoriously despite the major losses on both sides. | |
| 778861740 | Vicksburg | Gave control of the Mississippi to the Union once again cutting of the South's supplies. | |
| 778861741 | Advantages of the North | More factories, soldiers, and the use of railroads. | |
| 778861742 | What attracted Britain to the Confederacy? | The south provided their textile industry with cotton. | |
| 778861743 | Four border states | Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, and Delaware. | |
| 778861744 | Lincoln's main goal throughout the war | Maintain the Union and keep the south from seceding at all costs. | |
| 778861745 | Roles of women | Took over man's role as head of managing the household and also worked as nurses. |
