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| Confederacy | the independent country declared by 11 southern states, who called themselves the Confederate States of America |
| civil war | a war fought between the people of a single country |
| emancipation | the act of freeing people from slavery |
| draft | a system for requiring citizens to join their country's armed forces |
| habeas corpus | a written order from a court that gives a person the right to a trial before being jailed |
| the Union | The United States as one country, united under a single government. During the Civil War, "the Union" came to mean the government armies of the North. |
| Monitor and Merrimac | two ironclad ships that fought in the Civil War |
| secession | the act of withdrawing from an organization or alliance, such as the withdrawal of the southern states from the Union |
| Gettysburg Address | famous speech that Lincoln made at the cemetery that overlooked the battlefield at Gettysburg |
| surrender | to give up |
