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What is Confederate
Name given to the southern states that allowed slavery.
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What is Union
Name given to the northern states who didn't allow slavery.
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What is Robert E. Lee
Commander of the Confederate army.
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What is Ulysses S. Grant
Commander of the Union Army.
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What is Gettysburg
1st time the South moved into Northern territory turning point of the war Union won.
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What is Slave State
Any state that does allow slavery.
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What is Free State
Any state that does not allow slavery.
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What is Jefferson Davis
President of the Confederacy.
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What is Abraham Lincoln
President of the Union.
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What is Vicksburg
North wanted to control because it was one of the last cities on the Mississippi River not controlled by the North Union Won.
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What is 13th Amendment
constitutional amendment ending slavery in the United States.
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What is Abolitionist
A person who tries to end slavery.
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What is Dred Scott
Slave who brought his case for freedom to the Supreme Court.
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What is Harriet Tubman
Former slave who escaped to the North frequently returning to the South to help slaves escape to freedom.
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What is Fredericksburg
city is halfway between the Confederate capital of Richmond VA and the Union capital of washington DC South won We got word ''sideburns'' from the Union general Ambrose Burnside.
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What is Secede
Withdraw or break away from something and not be a part of it anymore.
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What is Appomattox Courthouse
Place where Lee surrendered to grant considered to be the end of the war.
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What is John Wilkes Booth
An actor who assassinated Abraham Lincoln.
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Battle
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What is Monitor and Merrimac
2 ships Monitor is the Union ship and Merrimac is the Confederate ship neither could sink the other but the Merrimac retreated first.
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What is Reconstruction
The time following the Civil War when the South was rebuilt.
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What is Emancipation Proclamation
Document written in January of 1863 setting free the slaves in the Confederate states.
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What is Tecumseh Sherman William
General who destroyed Atlanta and sent troops on a 300 mile destructive march to the sea destroying railroads,buildings and crops hoping to cause the South to give up.
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What is Bull run
also called Manassas or Manassas junction General Thomas Jackson here because he stood like a stone wall just watching the fight Confederates won.
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What is Fort Sumter
fort in southern territory held by the North considered the starting Point of Civil War fighting.
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