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15 Cards in this Set
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Ironclad
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A warship covered with iron
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Minié ball
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A bullet with a hollow base
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Rifle
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A gun with a grooved barrel that causes a bullet to spin through the air
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First Battle of Bull Run
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An 1861 battle of the Civil War in which the South shocked the North with a victory
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Blockade
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When armed forces prevent the transportation of goods or people into or out of an area
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Anaconda Plan
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A strategy by which the Union proposal to defeat the Confederacy in the Civil War
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King Cotton
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Cotton was called king because cotton was important to the world market, and the South grew most of the cotton for Europe's mills
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Border state
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A slave state that surrounded states in which slavery was illegal
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Robert E. Lee
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A talented military leader
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Fort Sumter
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Located in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina; the Southern attack marked the beginning of the Civil War
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Ulysses S. Grant
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Union general in the Civil War
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Battle of Shiloh
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An 1862 battle in which the Union forced the Confederacy to retreat in some of the fiercest fighting in the Civil War
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Cavalry
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Soldiers on horsebacks
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Seven Days' Battles
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An 1862 Civil War battle in which the Confederacy forced the Union to retreat before it could capture the Southern capitol of Richmond
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Battle of Antietam
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A Civil War battle in 1862 in which 25,000 men were killed or wounded
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