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| Fort Sumter | a federal outpost in Charleston,South Carolina,that was attacked by the Confederates in April 1861,sparking the Civil War |
| border states | Delaware,Kentucky,Maryland,and Missouri;slave states that lay between the North and the South and did not join the Confederacy during the Civil War |
| Windfield Scott | As a General developed a two-part strategy |
| cotton diplomacy | Confederate efforts to use the importance of southern cotton to Britain's textile industry to persuade the British to support the Confederacy in the Civil War |
| Thomas"Stonewall"Jackson | General earned his famous nickname |
| First Battle of Bull Run | (1861)the first major battle of the Civil War,resulting in a Confederate victory;showed that the Civil War would not be won easily |
| George B McClellan | General assembled a highly disciplined army |
| Robert E.Lee | A graduate of the U.S.Military Academy of West Point |
| Seven Days'Battles | (1862)a series of Civil War battles in which Confederate army successes forced the Union army to retreat from Richmond,Virginia,the Confederate capital |
| Second Battle of Bull Run | (1862)a Civil War battle in which the Confederate army forced most of the Union army out of Virginia |
| Battle of Antietam | (1862)a Union victory in the Civil War that marked the bloodiest single-day battle in U.S military history |
| ironclads | a warship that is heavily armored with iron |
| Ulysses S.Grant | As a commander of forces in the Union's western campaign |
| Battle of Shiloh | (1862)a Civil War battle in Tennessee in Which the Union army gained greater control over the Mississippi River Valley |
| David Farragut | born in Tennessee to a Spanish father and American mother |
| Siege of Vicksburg | (1863)the Union army's six-week blockade of Vicksburg that led the city to surrender the Civil War |
| emancipation | freeing of the slaves |
| Emancipation Proclamation | (1862)an order issue by President Abraham Lincoln freeing th e slaves in areas rebeling against the Union;took effect January 1,1863 |
| contrabands | an escaped slave who joined the Union army during the Civil War |
| 54th Massachusetts Infantry | Afrixan American Civil War regiment that attacked Forth Wagner in South Carolina |
| Copperheads | a group of northern Democrats who opposed abolition and sympathized whit the South during the Civil War |
| habeas corpus | the constitutional protection against unlawful imprisonment |
| Clara Barton | founded the American Red Cross |
| Battle of Gettysburg | (1863)a Union Civil War victory that turn the tide against the Confederates at Gettysburg,Pennsylvania |
| George Pickett | As a General commanded the largest unit |
| Pickett's Charge | proved a disaster for the Confederaaaate attackers.Fewer than half of them survived |
| Gettysburg Address | (1863)a speech given by Abraham Lincoln in which he praised the bravery of Union soldiers and renew his commitment to winning the Civil War |
| Wilderness Campaign | (1864)a series of battles between Union and Confederate forces in northern and central Virginia thet delayed the Union capture of Richmond |
| William Tecumseh Sherman | As a General the bold campaing provided this key victory |
| total war | a type of war in which an army destroys his opponent's ability to fight by targeting civilian and economic as well as military resourcess |
| Appomattox Courthouse | the location where General Robert E.Lee was forced to surrender,thus ending the Civil War |
