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Anaconda Plan | The Union plan to take the Mississippi River and squeeze the Confederacy to death. |
barter | The trading of one item for another is known as ______ . |
blockade | The use of naval forces to stop shipping. |
blockade runners | Fast ships that were supposed to be able to outrun other naval ships. |
border states | The slave states that did not secede, along with the western counties of Virginia. |
Columbia | On February 17-20, 1865, Union troops occupied the S.C. capital of _______ . |
conscription | Another word for a draft, a sys to meet troop quotas. |
Jefferson Davis | The president of the Confederacy. |
Gettysburg | The battle of _______ was the turning point of the war in the east. |
Ironclads | Armored vessels that the Confederate Navy used during the war. |
King Cotton Diplomacy | The Confederacy's political policy based on the belief that French and British textile mills needed the South's cotton. |
Robert E. Lee | The Confederate general who surrendered at Appomattox Court House. |
Abraham Lincoln | Believed that no state could leave thte Union of its own choice. |
refugee | One who fled the war. |