The Civil War

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Fort Sumter

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In 1861, that soRk occurred at Fort Sumter,a federal outpost in Charleston, South Carolina, that was attacked by Confederate troops, beginning the Civil War

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Border States

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Wedged between the North and South were the key border states of Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri- slave states that did not join the confederacy.

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Winfield Scott

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Taking advantage of the union's strengths, General Winfield Scott developed a two part strategy: (1) destroy the South's economy with a naval blockade of southern ports; (2) gain control of the Mississippi River to divide the South.

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Cotton Diplomacy

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This was the idea that Great Britain would support the Confederacy because it needed the South's raw Cotten to supply it's booming textile industry.

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First Battle of Bull Run

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Union lost

Showed the war would be long and bloody

Civilians came to watch

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Robert E. Lee

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General of Confederate Army

Most skilled general of the Civil War

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Antietam

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The Battle of Antietam, also known as the Battle of Sharpsburg, was the bloodiest single-day battle of the Civil War- and of U.S. history.

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Stonewall Jackson

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A southern officer said that Jackson looked like a stone wall and that's how Stonewall Jackson got his name.

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54th Massachusetts

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The 54th Massachusetts Infantry consisted mostly of free African Americans. In July 1863 this regiment led a heroic charge on South Carolina's Fort Wagner.

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Clara Barton

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One woman brought strength and comfort to countless wounded Union soldiers. Clara Barton organized the collection of medicine and supplies for delivery to battlefield.

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Emancipation Proclamation

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He finally wrote the Emancipation Proclamation, the order to free the Confederate Slaves.