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Civil War Unit Terms
Civil War and Reconstruction Study Guide Terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Anaconda Plan | Union Strategy for defeating the Confederacy. |
| Blockade | Shutting off an area by troops or ships to keep people and supplies from moving in or out. |
| Emancipation Proclamation | Statement issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, freeing all the slaves in the Confederate States still at war with the Union. |
| Draft | Law that requires men of a certain age to serve in the military if called. |
| Assasination | The killing of a high-ranking official or leader. |
| Jim Crow Laws | Laws passed in the south after reconstruction establishing segregation of blacks and whites. |
| Segregation | Separation of people of different races. |
| Reconstruction | Period of rebuilding after the Civil War during which the Southern states rejoined the Union. |
| Impeachment | Bringing of charges of wrong doing against an elected official. |
| Freedman's Bureau | Federal Agency set up in 1865 to provide food, schools, and medical care to freed slaves in the south. |
| Abraham Lincoln | President of the United States |
| Jefferson Davis | President of the Confederacy |
| Robert E. Lee | Commander of Confederate Forces during the Civil War. |
| Ulysses S. Grant | Commander of Union forces during the Civil War. |
| Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson | Confederate General who helped the Confederates win several early victories in the Civil War. |
| Mathew Brady | Famous Civil War Photography |
| William Tecumseh Sherman | Union general who's "March to the Sea" in 1864 helped defeat the Confederacy in the Civil War. |
| Blanche K. Bruce | Former slave elected to U.S. Senate in 1874. |
| Impeachment | Bringing of charges of wrong doing against an elected official. |
| 54th Colored Regiment | Group of soldiers was one of the first groups of black troops to be organized for the Union Army. |
| Andrew Johnson | 17th President of the United States. Took office when Lincoln was assasinated. |
| Battle of Bull Run | Early, the Union was winning, then the Confederates "stood like a stone wall" and they won. It happened in Virginia. |
| Battle of Antietam | Union and Confederate forces met near the town of Sharpsburg, Maryland. With Robert E. Lee |
| Battle of Gettysburg | Important battle. Lasted 3 days. Vicotry for the North. Farthest north for Confederates. Was in Pennsylvania. |
| Battle of Vicksburg | Took over Vicksburg. Blockade. Bombarded with cannon fire by land and sea for 48 days. Happened in Mississippi. |
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