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| shutting off of an area by troops or ships to keep people and supplies from moving in or out; this was the Union strategy |
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| capital of the Confederacy |
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| early Confederate victory |
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| Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson |
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| Confederate general whose men held their place in the First Battle of Bull Run |
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| important Union victory after which Britain ended its support for the South |
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| important Confederate general who was first asked by Lincoln to join the Union Army |
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| law requiring men of a certain age to serve in the military if they are called |
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| Emancipation Proclamation |
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| statement issued by Lincoln setting free all the slaves in the Confederate states |
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| African American Union soldier who won the Congressional Medal of Honor for bravery in the Civil War |
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| Confederate spy; "La Belle Rebelle" |
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| Civil War nurse, "Angel of the Battlefield"; she later started the American Red Cross |
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| Union victory in Pennsylvania that stopped Lee's advance into the North; both sides had 20-30,000 casualties |
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| Lincoln's speech that inspired the Union to keep fighting |
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| Union victory led by Ulysses S. Grant that cut the Confederacy in two |
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| Union plan to attack the Confederacy from the east and west, squeezing it with blockades |
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| General William Tecumseh Sherman |
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| Union general whose men burned Atlanta, went on a "March to the Sea" destroying everything in its path, and captured Savannah |
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| General Sherman's's method of warfare whose aim is to destroy not just the opposing army, but the people's will to fight |
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| Appomattox Court House, Virginia |
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| place where General Lee surrendered the Confederacy to General Grant |
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| murder of a government or political leader |
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| vice president who became president when Lincoln was assassinated; he was almost impeached by Congress |
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| the rebuilding and healing of the country after the war |
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| amendment that abolished slavery in the US |
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| Southern lawsthat denied African American men rights; these laws made their lives the same as they were during slavery |
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| program that helped former slaves by building hospitals and schools for blacks in the South |
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| amendment giving African Americans citizenship; it said that no state could deny the equal protection of the law to all citizens |
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| amendment that gave all male citizens the right to vote |
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| bringing charges of wrongdoing against an elected official by the House of Reps.; Johnson escaped this by 1 vote |
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| laws enforcing the separation of blacks and whites |
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| separation of blacks and whites |
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| system where poor blacks rented land from landowner, paying their rent with a portion of their crops |
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