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| Robert E. Lee | Virginian who resigns from the U.S. Army to lead Confederate Army |
| Reconstruction | The process of rebuilding the nation and bringing the southern sttes back into the Union |
| Cotton Diplomacy | Confederate hope to trade cotton with Europe |
| Ten Percent Plan | Name of Lincoln's plan to reconstruct the Union |
| 13th Ammendment | Ammendment to abolish or ban slavery |
| Freedmen's Bureau | Government organization designed to assist former slaves with food &work |
| John Wilkes Booth | Killed Pres. Abraham Lincoln |
| Andrew Johnson | Became our 17th President when Lincoln killed |
| Black Codes | Laws passed by southern states that limited the freedom of freedmen |
| Radical Republicans | Congressmen who wanted to punish the South during Reconstruction |
| Cotton Diplomacy | Confederate hope to trade cotton with Europe for supplies needed to fight the war |
| First Battle of Bull Run | First Major battle of the Civil War, Confederates won |
| Robert E Lee | Virginian who resigns from US Army to lead the Confederacy |
| Antietam | Battle in Maryland know as "Single bloodiest day" in American history |
| Ironclads | Name given to wooden ships with sheet metal armor |
| Ulysses Grant | Lincoln said of him"I can't spare the man. He fights." |
| Vicksburg | Important Union victory which gives them control of the Mississippi River |
| John Brown | An abolitionist who led slave revolt at Harper's Ferry, Virginia |
| Stephen Douglas | Illinois senator who debated Lincoln over Popular Sovereignty |
