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| 6040626734 | Martial Law | the body of law imposed by the military over civilian affairs during the Civil War | 0 | |
| 6040626735 | Merchant Marine | civilian ships and sailors who transported food, weapons,and munition during the Civil War | 1 | |
| 6040626736 | Habeas Corpus | the civil right to obtain a writ of habeas corpus as protection against illegal imprisonment; Abraham Lincoln suspended it during the Civil War | 2 | |
| 6040626737 | Greenback | a piece of U.S. paper money first issued by the North during the Civil War | 3 | |
| 6040626738 | Border States | States bordering the North: Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky and Missouri. They were slave states, but did not secede. | 4 | |
| 6040626739 | Napoleon III | Nephew of Napoleon Bonaparte, and elected emperor of France from 1852-1870, he invaded Mexico when the Mexican government couldn't repay loans from French bankers. He sent in an army and set up a new government under Maximillian during the Civil War. He refused Lincoln's request that France withdraw. After the Civil War, the U.S. sent an army to enforce the request and Napoleon withdrew. | 5 | |
| 6040626740 | Charles Francis Adams | Minister to Great Britain during the Civil War, he wanted to keep Britain from entering the war on the side of the South. | 6 | |
| 6040626741 | Thomas Jackson | Confederate commander who helped the South win Bull Run. Nicknamed the "Stonewall" and soldiers under his command were called "foot calvary" | 7 | |
| 6040626742 | Maximilian | French viceroy appointed by Napoleon III of France to lead the new government set up in Mexico. After the Civil War, the U.S. invaded and he was executed, a demonstration of the enforcement of the Monroe Doctrine to European powers. | 8 | |
| 6040626743 | Sally Tompkins | Confederate nurse who ran a hospital in Richmond, Virginia during the Civil War | 9 | |
| 6040626744 | Jay Cooke | A New York financier who was interested in the OSN Railroads. When he acquired the charter of the North Pacific, he persuaded Congress to enlarge the land grants 60 miles on each side of the railroad, and he allowed timber companies to sell of these lands.His bankruptcy caused a national depression. | 10 | |
| 6040626745 | Abraham Lincoln | Was President of the United States, opposed the spread of slavery, issued the Emancipation Proclamation, was determined to preserve the Union, by force if necessary, believed the United States was one nation, not a collection of independent states, and wrote the Gettysburg Address that said the Civil War was to preserve a government "of the people, by the people, and for the people | 11 | |
| 6040626746 | Jefferson Davis | an American statesman and politician who served as President of the Confederate States of America for its entire history from 1861 to 1865 | 12 | |
| 6040626747 | Elizabeth Blackwell | Northern woman who was the first woman to become a licensed doctor in the U.S. and helped run the US Sanitiary Commission | 13 | |
| 6040626748 | Clara Barton | Launched the American Red Cross in 1881. An "angel" in the Civil War, she treated the wounded in the field. | 14 | |
| 6040626749 | Ft Sumter | Federal fort in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina; the confederate attack on the fort marked the start of the Civil War | 15 | |
| 6040626750 | Confederacy | the southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861 | 16 | |
| 6040626751 | Trent Affair | In 1861 the Confederacy sent emissaries James Mason to Britain and John Slidell to France to lobby for recognition. A Union ship captured both men and took them to Boston as prisonners. The British were angry and Lincoln ordered their release | 17 | |
| 6040626752 | 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. | 18 | |
| 6040626753 | conscription | drafting of civilians to serve in the army during the Civil War | 19 | |
| 6040626754 | New York City 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. | 20 | |
| 6040626755 | Alabama | 1862-1864, Ship built for the C.S.A. by the British; fast-moving and maneuverable; wreaked havoc on Union trade and blockade attempts | 21 | |
| 6040626756 | National Banking System | Authorized by Congress in 1863 to establish a standard bank currency. Banks that joined the system could buy bonds and issue paper money. First significant step toward a national bank. | 22 | |
| 6040626757 | Billy Yank | The nickname of the Union used by the Confederate soldiers | 23 | |
| 6040626758 | Johnny Reb | 'johnny' was applied as a nickname for Confederate soldiers by the Federal soldiers in the American Civil War | 24 | |
| 6040626759 | William H. Seward | "Higher law" and natural rights, Opposed slavery expansion, Whig senator. "Irrepressible conflict" expansion of slavery between north and south | 25 | |
| 6040626760 | Emancipation Proclamation | issued by Abraham Lincoln on September 22, 1862, it declared that all slaves in the rebellious Confederate states would be free | 26 | |
| 6040626761 | Horace Greeley | An American newspaper editor and founder of the Republican party. His New York Tribune was America's most influential newspaper 1840-1870. Greeley used it to promote the Whig and Republican parties, as well as antislavery and a host of reforms. | 27 |
