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| Abraham Lincoln | 16th President of the United States (1861-65). Saved the Union during the Civil War and emancipated the slaves; was assassinated in 1865 |
| Habeas Corpus | Constitutional protection against unlawful imprisonment. Lincoln suspended it in several states during the Civil War. |
| Emergency powers | Broad powers exercised by the president during times of national crisis |
| Emancipation Proclamation | Proclamation issued by Lincoln; freeing all slaves in areas still at war with the Union. |
| Gettysburg Address | A speech given by Abraham Lincoln in which he praised the bravery of Union soldiers and renewed his commitment to winning the Civil War |
| Ulysses S. Grant | An American general and the eighteenth President of the United States (1869-1877). He achieved international fame as the leading Union general in the American Civil War. |
| Robert E. Lee | Confederate general who had opposed secession but did not believe the Union should be held together by force |
| Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson | Confederate general; known for his fearlessness; whose men stopped Union assault during the Battle of Bull Run. |
| William T. Sherman | Union general whose march to sea caused widespread destruction to the south |
| Jefferson Davis | President of the Confederate States of America |
| Battle of Fort Sumter | First fired shots of the Civil War. Confederate Victory; fought in South Carolina. |
| Battle of Antietam | Civil War battle (1862) in which the North succeeded in halting Lee's Confederate forces in Maryland. Was the bloodiest single day battle of the war resulting in 25;000 casualties |
| Battle of Vicksburg | Battle that gave the Union control of the Mississippi River; splitting the Confederacy in half. |
| Battle of Atlanta | Battle in which Sherman took a vital manufacturing and transportation hub to disrupt Confederate ability to resupply. Start of his March to the Sea. |
| Civil War (1861-1865) | Deadliest war in American history; conflict between north (union) and south (confederacy); 11 southern slave states wanted to secede from Union |
