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| 54th Massachusetts Regiment | in the Civil War, the first entirely African American regiment of the Union Army |
| Anaconda Plan | Civil War strategy devised by President Abraham Lincoln and General Winfield Scott by which Union forces would establish a naval blockade of southern ports and take control of the Mississippi River in order to squeeze in on the South from the east and west and defeat it |
| bread riot | during the Civil War, a riot involving hundreds of women in Richmond, Virginia, who sought food and other goods that were becoming scarce in the South as Union forces cut off key parts of the region's economy |
| Copperhead | during the Civil War, a nickname Republicans used to describe those Northerners, mostly Democrats, who opposed the war and were sympathetic to the South |
| draft riots | a series of deadly riots that took place in U.S. cities in 1863 to protest the newly established military draft |
| emancipation | the act of freeing slaves from bondage |
| Emancipation Proclamation | an edict issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, to free the slaves in the Confederate states |
| embargo | a government order that restricts or prohibits trade of a particular good or with a particular nation |
| freedmen | a man who has been freed from slavery |
| habeas corpus | the right of a person being detained to appear in court so that a judge may determine whether the person has been imprisoned lawfully |
| military draft | a system of requiring by law that all people who meet certain criteria, such as age and gender, report for military duty |
| naval blockade | a military maneuver in which one side sets up a line of ships to block entry into or departure from the ports of the opposing side |
| rifled musket | a type of gun used during the Civil War that had improved power and accuracy |
| Sherman’s March to the Sea | during the Civil War, a devastating total war military campaign, led by Union general William Tecumseh Sherman, that involved marching 60,000 Union troops through Georgia from Atlanta to Savannah and destroying everything along the way |
| total war | a military policy in which one side in a conflict decides it is willing to make any sacrifice necessary to completely defeat the opposing side |
