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| Blockade | an act or means of sealing off a place to prevent goods or people from entering or leaving. |
| Copperheads | Peace Democrats; who opposed the American Civil War and wanted an immediate peace settlement with the Confederates |
| New York draft riots | were violent disturbances in Lower Manhattan, widely regarded as the culmination of white working-class discontent with new laws passed by Congress that year to draft men to fight in the ongoing American Civil War. |
| Robert E. Lee | general who led the Confederate Armies in the American Civil War |
| George McClellan | a U.S. Army engineer, railroad president and politician who served as a major general during the Civil War. |
| Anaconda Plan | military strategy proposed by Union General Winfield Scott early in the American Civil War. The plan called for a naval blockade of the Confederate littoral, a thrust down the Mississippi, and the strangulation of the South by Union land and naval forces. |
| Border State | were slave states that did not declare a secession from the Union and did not join the Confederacy. |
| Battle of Bull Run | either of two battles during the American Civil War (1861 and 1862); Confederate forces defeated the Federal army in both battles. |
| Stonewall Jackson | general in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War whose troops at the first Battle of Bull Run stood like a stone wall |
| Ulysses Grant | an American soldier and politician who served as the 18th president of the United States from 1869 to 1877 |
| Battle of Shiloh | second great engagement of the American Civil War, fought in southwestern Tennessee, resulting in a victory for the North and in large casualties for both sides. |
| Contraband | a term commonly used in the United States military during the American Civil War to describe a new status for certain escaped slaves or those who affiliated with Union forces |
| Battle of Antietam | a decisive engagement that halted the Confederate invasion of Maryland, |
| Emancipation Proclamation | declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free." |
| Militia Act | of 1862 is a law enacted during the American Civil War that allowed African Americans to participate as war laborers and soldiers. |
| 54th Massachusetts Regiment | Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that saw extensive service in the Union Army during the American Civil War. The unit was the second African-American regiment, |
| Income Tax Act | the first tax paid on individual incomes by residents of the United States. It was a "progressive" tax |
| Bond | debt securities issued by a government to finance military operations and other expenditure in times of war. In practice, modern governments finance war by putting additional money into circulation |
| Homestead Act | enacted during the Civil War in 1862, provided that any adult citizen, or intended citizen, who had never borne arms against the U.S. government could claim 160 acres of surveyed government land. Claimants were required to “improve” the plot by building a dwelling and cultivating the land. |
