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20 Cards in this Set
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Abraham Lincoln
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16th President of the United States saved the Union during the Civil War and emancipated the slaves; was assassinated by Booth (1809-1865)
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Civil War
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The period of warfare between the Confederate States of America (1861-1865) and the United States over the issues of states' rights and slavery.
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Confederacy
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the southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861
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emancipation
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freeing someone from the control of another
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free state
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A state that did not allow slavery
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Ft. Sumter
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union fort attacked by confederates in 1861, started Civil War.
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Jefferson Davis
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President of the Confederate States of America for its entire history from 1861 to 1865
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slave state
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any of the southern states in which slavery was legal prior to the Civil War
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Stonewall Jackson
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general in the Confederate Army during the Civil War whose troops at the first Battle of Bull Run stood like a stone wall (1824-1863)
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Ulysses S. Grant
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an American general and the eighteenth President of the United States (1869-1877). He achieved international fame as the leading Union general in the American Civil War.
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underground railroad
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a system of secret routes used by escaping slaves to reach freedom in the North or in Canada
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Union
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being of or having to do with the northern United States and those loyal to the Union during the Civil War
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segregation
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the separation of people, usually based on race or religion
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Harriet Tubman
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supported the secret route that escaped slaves took, known as the Underground Railroad
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General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
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Confederate general who fought at Bull Run
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General Robert E. Lee
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Confederate Commander of the Army of Northern Virginia, defeated Union at Fredericksburg
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General Ulysses S. Grant
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Union general who took over Richmond
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Appomattox Court House
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the surrender of General Lee to General Grant in April 1865
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Reconstruction
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period following the Civil War in which Congress passed laws designed to help rebuild the country and bring southern states back into the Union
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Freedmen's Bureau
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government agency that provided food, schools, and medical care for freed African Americans and others in Virginia
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