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Civil War 5th
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| secession | when part of a country leaves or breaks off from the rest |
| Confederacy | the 11 southern states that seceded from the U.S. |
| civil war | a war between 2 groups or regions within a nation |
| border states | slave states that stayed in the Union |
| casualties | soldiers who were killed, wounded, captured, or missing during war |
| draft | forced enrollment of people into the military |
| emancipation (proclamation) | freeing of enslaved people; January 1,1863 |
| camp | a place where temporary shelters or tents are set up, especially for soldiers or travelers |
| home front | all the people who are not in the military (civilian population) |
| civilian | a person not serving in the military |
| sharecropping | a system where poor farmers used a landowner's fields and in return gave the landowner a share of the crop |
| Jim Crow | a nickname for laws that kept African Americans separate from other Americans |
| segregation | forced separation of races; segregated schools, hospitals, churches |
| Abraham Lincoln | famous Republican; 16th President of the U.S.; opposed slavery |
| Jefferson Davis | elected President of the Confederacy |
| Fort Sumter | marked the beginning of the Civil War; April 12, 1861 |
| Union | northern states without slavery (exception were the border states) |
| Robert E. Lee | General of the Confederate soldiers |
| Ulysses S. Grant | General of the Union army |
| Battle of Bull Run; Battle of Antietam; Battle of Shiloh | key battles in the Civil War |
| Battles at Vicksburg & Gettysburg | Union victories; turning points of the war |
| Gettysburg Address | short speech given by President Lincoln; declared Union was fighting to make sure that American democracy would survive |
| Reconstruction | the period when the south rejoined the Union |
| April 14, 1865 | John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Lincoln at Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C. |
| Clara Barton | northern woman serving as a nurse; founded the American Red Cross |
| Rutherford B. Hayes | new president in 1877 who ended Reconstruction and ordered government soldiers to leave the south |
| Booker T. Washington | former slave; opened Tuskegee Institute in Alabama (all students and teachers were African American); students studied writing, math, and science and learned trades such as printing, carpentry, and farming |
| George Washington Carver | one of Tuskegee's most famous teachers; studied how to improve the lives of poor southern farmers; invented over 300 products made from peanuts |
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