| A | B |
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| The Civil War | war between the northern and southern states between 1861 and 1865 |
| Jefferson Davis | president of the Confederate States of America |
| Abraham Lincoln | president of the United States |
| emancipate | to set free |
| Battle of Bull Run | 7/1861; demonstrated that both sides needed training and that it was going to be a long and bloody war |
| Emancipation Proclamation | 1863; ZPresident Lincoln's declaration freeing the slaves of the Confederacy |
| Battle of Antietum | 9/1862; neither die won a clear victory (although the North claimed to have won), and 23,000 Union and Confederate soldiers were killed or wounded |
| Robert E. Lee | commander of the Confederate Army |
| Battle of Shiloh | 4/1862; one of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War |
| civilian | person who is not in the military |
| bounty | payment made to men who joined the Union army |
| habeas corpus | right to have charges filed or a hearing before being jailed |
| profiteer | person who takes advantage of an emergency to make money |
| draft | law requiring men of a certain age to serve in the military |
| inflation | economic cycle in which the value of money falls and the prices of goods rise |
| tax-in-kind | tax paid with goods rather than money |
| Gettysburg Address | 1836; speech given by Lincoln after the battle at Gettysburg, in which he states thta the Civil War was a test of whether or not a democratic nation could survive |
