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Confederacy | the 11 Southern states that separated from the United States and called itself the Confederate States of America |
secede | to withdraw formally from membership in an organization, association, or alliance |
Union | the 22 Northern States during the Civil War |
Robert E. Lee | Main General of the Confederacy |
Jefferson Davis | President of the Confederate States of America |
Stonewall Jackson | General of the Confederacy |
Bull Run | 1st Battle of Civil War |
Abraham Lincoln | President of the United States |
George B. McClellan | Union General |
Ulysses S. Grant | Union General |
Tecumseh Sherman | Union General |
Harriet Tubman | Conductor on the Underground Railroad |
Frederick Douglass | abolitionist and orator |
Merrimac | Conferderate ironclad battleship |
Monitor | Union ironclad battleship |
moderate | an individual opposed to extreme views or measures in politics or religion |
emancipation | a condition of being freed from oppression, bondage or restraint |
civil rights | rights belonging to a person because of his or her status as a citizen or as a member of society |
draft | a call to military service |
Total War | the idea to destroy everything the enemy has, not just troops but all Social, Economic, and Agricultural resources. |
Clara Barton | organized supplies for Union troops |
Mathew Brady | Civil War photographer |
54th Massachusetts | most famous African American Unit to fight in the war |
Appomattox | place where Confederacy surrendered |