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Shiloh

Tennessee battle that resulted in 25,000 Union and confederate casualties

Blockade

Isolation of a port by hostile forces

Border state

Union state that allowed slavery

Stonewall Jackson

General who won the battle of bull run/ battle of Manassas

Robert E Lee

former us army general who led the confederate troops

Anaconda plan

Union strategy to have control of confederate ports and the Mississippi River

Which population was bigger

The north

What was a geographical advantage the south had over the north

The south was fighting on its own territory

Contraband

Captured war

Emancipation Proclamation

Freed all people enslaved in states still in rebellion against the union on January 1 1863

Militia act

Congress passed to act to ensure that black soldiers were accepted for military service

Antietam

The bloodiest single day of fighting in the civil war

They knew it wouldn't free all enslaved people

Why were abolishing against the emancipation proclamation

Served as spies and scouts

How did African Americans help Union forces

Served as spies and scouts

How did African Americans help Union forces

Habeas corpus

A right that dates a person can be detained without being charged for a specific crime

Copperhead

Person from the north who wanted to end the civil war

Gettysburg

The battle that was the turning point of the war

Vickburg

the capturing of the confederate stronghold on the Mississippi River by the union

Vickburg

the capturing of the confederate stronghold on the Mississippi River by the union

George Pickett

The last failed confederate attack in the battle of Gettysburg was lead by whom

William Sherman

The union general that led an aggressive campaign that destroyed most of Georgia

William Sherman

The union general that led an aggressive campaign that destroyed most of Georgia

John Wilkes booth

Fired the shot that killed Lincoln

Thirteenth anebdment

Outlawed slavery

Thirteenth anebdment

Outlawed slavery

Appomattox court house

Where did Lee finally surrender

Thirteenth anebdment

Outlawed slavery

Appomattox court house

Where did Lee finally surrender

Clara burton

Started red cross

Ulysses S. grant

Union general that fought at the battle of Shiloh

Ulysses S. grant

Union general that fought at the battle of Shiloh

Gettysburg address

Speech made by Lincoln dedicating a national cemetery to Gettysburg

Greenback

The act congress passed that created national currency

Martial law

Emergency rule by military authorities

McClellan

The man running against Lincoln in the election; want to end war