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| Election of 1860 | At this election, Lincoln, the Republican candidate won and the South seceded. |
| Abraham Lincoln | 16th President. Led US during the Civil War. |
| Anaconda Plan | Plan for Civil War proposed by General Winfield Scott, which involved blockade of Southern ports, control of the Mississippi Rover, and capturing the South's capital. |
| First Battle of Bull Run | Confederacy won this early battle. It showed that the war was not going to end quickly as many thought. |
| Robert E Lee | Virginia leader of the Confederate army. He was a good leader who had to surrender in the end. |
| George McClellan | Union leader of the Army of the Potomac. Was general in chief for a while but hesitated in attacking the South which frustrated Lincoln. |
| Ulysses S Grant | Became general in chief after Shiloh. Strong Union general who eventually defeated Lee at Appomattox Courthouse in Virginia. |
| Battle of Shiloh | The deadliest two-day battle in US History. Union victory. Was in Tennessee. |
| Battle of Antietam | Civil War battle in which the North succeeded in halting Lee's forces in Maryland. The bloodiest one-day battle of the war. |
| Battle of Fredericksburg | Lee led the Confederates against Burnside for the Union. The Union waa defeated. Lee |
| Emancipation Proclamation | An order by President Lincoln that freed the slaves in the Confederate states. |
| Copperheads | A group fo northern Democrats who opposed abolition and sympathized with the South during the Civil War |
