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Jefferson Davis

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was an American statesman and leader of the Confederacy during the American Civil War serving as President for its entire history.

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George McClellan

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major general during the American Civil War. He organized the famous Army of the Potomac and served briefly as the general-in-chief of the Union Army.

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Robert E. Lee

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military officer who is best known for having commanded the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia in the American Civil War.

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Ulysses S. Grant

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military commander during the Civil War and post-war Reconstruction periods. Under Grant's command, the Union Army defeated the Confederate military and ended the Confederate States of America.

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King Cotton

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was a slogan used by southerners 1860-61 to support secession from the United States by arguing cotton exports would make an independent Confederacy economically prosperous, and—more important—would force Britain and France to support the Confederacy because their industrial economy depended on textiles, which depended on cotton.

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Emancipation Proclamation

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It proclaimed the freedom of 3.1 million of the nation's 4 million slaves, and immediately freed 50,000 of them, with the rest freed as Union armies advanced

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Enrollment Act of March 1863

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was legislation passed by the United States Congress during the American Civil War to provide fresh manpower for the Union Army.

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Appomattox Courthouse

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fought on the morning of April 9, 1865, was the final engagement of Confederate States Army General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia before it surrendered to the Union Army under Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, and one of the last battles of the American Civil War.

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Trent Incident

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the USS San Jacinto, commanded by Union Captain Charles Wilkes, intercepted the British mail packet Trent and removed, as contraband of war, two Confederate diplomats, James Mason and John Slidell. The envoys were bound for Great Britain and France to press the Confederacy’s case for diplomatic recognition by Europe.

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13th Amendment

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officially abolished and continues to prohibit slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime.

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Copperheads

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group of Democrats in the Northern United States who opposed the American Civil War, wanting an immediate peace settlement with the Confederates.

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Clement Vallandigham

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was an Ohio resident of the Copperhead faction of anti-war Democrats during the American Civil War. He served two terms in the United States House of Representatives.

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New York Riot

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were violent disturbances in New York City that were the culmination of discontent with new laws passed by Congress to draft men to fight in the ongoing American Civil War.

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Sherman’s March to the Sea

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The campaign began with Sherman's troops leaving the captured city of Atlanta, Georgia, on November 15 and ended with the capture of the port of Savannah on December 21. It inflicted significant damage,

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John Wilkes Booth

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assassinated lincoln

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Antietam

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was the first major battle in the American Civil War to take place on Northern soil. It was the bloodiest single-day battle in American history, with about 23,000 casualties.

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Vicksburg

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In a series of maneuvers, Union Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant and his Army of the Tennessee crossed the Mississippi River and drove the Confederate army of Lt. Gen. John C. Pemberton into the defensive lines surrounding the fortress city of Vicksburg, Mississippi.