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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is the blockade? | The shutting off of an area by troops or ships to keep people and supplies from moving in or out. |
| What is the Anaconda Plan? | The Union strategy for defeating the Confederacy during the Civil War. |
| First Battle Of Bull Run | First major battle of the Civil War, fought near Manassas Junction, Virginia, on July 21, 1861. |
| Battle of Antietam | Civil War battle fought in 1862 near Sharpsburg, Maryland, that was an important victory for the Union. |
| Richmond, Virginia | The capital of the Confederacy. |
| Winfield Scott | General who fought in the Mexican War, and Union general in the Civil War; creator of the Anaconda Plan. |
| Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson | Confederate general who led the Confederate army to victory in several battles early in the Civil War. |
| Robert E. Lee | Commander of the Confederate forces in the Civil War. |
| Fort Wagner, South Carolina | Fort that protected the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina, attacked by the African American 54th Regiment in the Civil War in July 1863. |
| Mathew Brady | Civil War photographer. |
| William Carney | Civil War hero who was one of 16 African Americans to win the Congressional Medal of Honor for heroism in the Civil War. |
| Belle Boyd | Confederate spy during the Civil war. |
| Clara Barton | Nurse during the Civil War who founded the American Red Cross. |
| draft | Law that requires men of a certain age to serve in the military, if called. |
| Emancipation Proclamation | Statement issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, freeing all slaves in Confederate states still at war with the Union. |