| A | B |
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| Fort Sumter | Union fort in Charleston, SC. The war started here when the S fired on the fort. |
| Anaconda Plan | Three-part Union strategy to win the Civil War |
| Bull Run | 1st battle in war & S. won |
| Stonewall Jackson | Confederate general and Lee's right hand man |
| George McClellan | Union general who spent more time drilling than fighting. |
| Ulysses S. Grant | Union general who was successful in the West and later commander of the Union armies. |
| Shiloh | Union victory in Tenn. Where the S caught N troops unawares |
| David G. Farragut | Commander of Union navy who took New Orleans |
| Monitor | Union ironclad ship |
| Merrimack | Confederate ironclad ship |
| Robert E. Lee | Confederate general and Grant's main opponent |
| Antietam | Union victory & turning point in war. Lincoln fires McClellan for not ending the war & letting the S. go. |
| Emancipation Proclamation | Order issued by Lincoln freeing slaves behind Confederate lines |
| habeas corpus | Court order that says that a person who is jailed has to appear before the court to determine why he or she is being jailed. |
| Copperhead | N. Democrat who advocated makig peace with the Confederacy during the war |
| conscription | Drafting of civilians to serve in the army |
| Fort Pillow | Site of Confederate massacre of more than 200 African-Am prisoners of war |
| income tax | Tax that takes a percentage of an individual' income. !st time in history. Used to pay for the war by the N. |
| Clara Barton | Union nurse & founder of Red Cross |
| Andersonville | Confederate POW camp with terrible conditions and hundreds died there. |
| Gettysburg | Most decisive battle of the war. S lost so many men that they never recovered. |
| Chancellorsville | Confederate victory in VA where Jackson was shot by his own men losing his arm and then his life. |
| Vicksburg | Union victory in Miss. giving the N control of the Miss. R. |
| Gettysburg Address | Important speech by Lincoln at the dedication of a national cemetery |
| William Tecumseh Sherman | Commander of Union troops in GA & SC who used total warfare |
| Appomattox Court House | Site of the Confederate surrender |
| National Bank Act | Law that set up a system of federally chartered banks |
| 13th Amendment | Abolished slavery everywhere in the US |
| Red Cross | Relief agency founded by Clara Barton in 1881 |
| John Wilkes Booth | Assassin of Pres. Lincoln |
| obsolete | out of date |
| suspend | stop for a time |
| dissenter | Person who has a difference of opinion |
| blockade | Close off a port or harbor and keep traffic from coming in or out |
| desert | to run away from or abandon the army illegally |
| enlist | to join the armed forces |
