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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 | General of the Confederacy |
| Jefferson Davis | President of the Confederate States of America |
| Stonewall Jackson | General of the Confederacy |
| West Point | Army Academy |
| Bull Run | 1st Battle of Civil War |
| Abraham Lincoln | President of the United States |
| George B. McClellan | First Union General |
| Ulysses S. Grant | Winning Union General |
| Tecumseh Sherman | Union General who burned Atlanta |
| Harriet Tubman | Underground Railroad Conductor |
| Frederick Douglass | African-American 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 |
| Appomattox | place where Confederacy surrendered |
| Southerners | They believed in States' rights. |
| Northerners | They believed in National Government. |
| South | Known as an agricultural area. |
| North | Known as an urban area. |
| slavery | The issue that MOST divided the nation. |
| tariff | A tax that foreign countries must pay. |
| Missouri Compromise (1820): | Missouri was a slave state; Maine, a free state. |
| Compromise of l850: | California was a free state. Southwest territories would decide about slavery. |
| Kansas-Nebraska Act: | People decided the slavery issue (“popular sovereignty”). |
| Fort Sumter | Confederates attacked this fort, starting the Civil War. |
| A major conflict was _______ | states’ rights versus strong central government. |
