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secession |
the withdrawal of eleven southern states from the Union in 1860, leading to the Civil War |
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Confederate States of America |
he 11 Southern states (Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia, Tennessee, Louisiana, and Mississippi) that seceded from the Union in 1861, precipitating a civil war with the North |
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Fort Sumter |
the first battle of the Civil War |
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Border States |
slave states that didn't secede from the Union |
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Anaconda Plan |
military strategy proposed by Union General Winfield Scott early in the American Civil War. |
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blockade |
an act or means of sealing off a place to prevent goods or people from entering or leaving. |
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ironclad |
a 19th-century warship with armor plating. |
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Emancipation Proclomation |
an executive order issued on January 1, 1863, by President Lincoln freeing slaves in all portions of the United States not then under Union control (that is, within the Confederacy). |
