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| Anaconda Plan | Name of the Union's battle plan to strangle the South |
| Appomattox Court House | place where Lee surrendered to Grant to end the Civil War |
| Battle of the Ironclads | Monitor vs. Merrimac, ended in a draw |
| border state | slaves states that stayed in the Union (Maryland, Missouri, Kentucky, Delaware) |
| Emancipation Proclamation | document written by President Lincoln that stated that slaves in the CSA were free |
| Fort Sumter | first shots of the Civil War happened here |
| Battle of Gettysburg | South invaded North, South had to retreat, turning point of war in favor of the North |
| Gettysburg Address | speech delivered by President Lincoln at the dedication of Gettysburg cemetery |
| Jefferson Davis | President of the Confederate States of America |
| Abraham Lincoln | President of the Union States of America |
| John Wilkes Booth | assassinated Lincoln |
| Pickett | Confederate general who led a charge at Gettysburg resulting in the death of 7,000 of his 14,000 men |
| Richmond | Confederate capital located in Virginia |
| Robert E. Lee | Confederate general who led the South to many victories |
| Sherman | Marched from Atlanta to Savannah, Georgia destroying everything in his path |
| Years for the Civil War | 1861-1865 |
| blockade | Union prevented the Confederacy from importing or exporting materials due to the line of ships blocking the coast |
| secede | to withdraw or leave |
| Antietam | battle resulted in the bloodiest single day of the war |
| First Battle of Bull Run | Confederate victory; both sides realized that the war would be long and bloody |
