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19 Cards in this Set
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Border states |
Delaware Kentucky maralyand and mizouri slave states that did not join the confederacy that also bordered the north and south |
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first battle of bull run |
The first major battle of the civil war. It resulted in a confederate victory it shattered hopes of an easy war for the north |
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Cotton diplomacy |
Confederate efforts to win the help of Brittany by using the importance of their cotton to Britons textile industry |
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Ironclad |
A warship heavily armored with armor with iorn |
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Emancipation |
Freeing of slaves |
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Emancipation proclamation |
An order by president Lincoln freeing the slaves in rebelling states so the union army could free slaves as they went |
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Gettiesburg adress |
A speech given by Abe Lincoln that praised the bravery of the union troops and renewed his commitment for winning the war |
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Fort sumpter |
A federal outpost in charleston North Carolina that was the place of the first battle of the civil war on April 1861 |
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54th masatuchetts infantry |
African American civil war regiment that attacked fort Wagner in s.c. |
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Copperheads |
A group of northern democrats who sympathized with the south |
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Habeas corpus |
The constitutional protection against unlawful inprisonment |
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Siege of vicksburg |
The union army's blockade of Vicksburg that led to the cities surrender |
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Total war |
A type of war in which a army destroys its opponents ability to fight by targeting civilian economic and military resources |
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Seceed |
To formally withdraw from the union |
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Appotomox courthouse |
The location where General Robert e lee was forced to surrender thus ending the civil war |
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Anaconda plan |
General Winfield Scott's plan to defeat the confederacy |
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The battle of Getteysburg |
The turning point in the civil war also the bloodiest battle in American history |
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Pickett's charge |
The fatal charge that was led by confedarate General George picket |
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Getteysburg adress |
The speech given by Abe Lincoln to dedicate the Getteysburg national cemeterycemetery |
