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Term | Definition |
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Emancipation Proclamation | Document issued by Lincoln that declared that all slaves in Confederate-held territory were free |
54th Massachusetts Volunteers | Regiment of African-American soldiers that gained fame for its courageous assault on Fort Wagner, South Carolina |
Copperheads | Northern Democrats who favored peace in the South |
writ of habeas corpus | Law that prevents the government from holding citizens without formal charges |
Clara Barton | Civil War nurse who later founded the American Red Cross |
Battle of Gettysburg | Battle in 1863 in Pennsylvania when Union forces stopped a confederate invasion of North |
George Pickett | Confederate general who fought at Gettysburg |
Pickett's Charge | Failed assault on Union Position on final day of Battle of Gettysburg |
Siege of Vicksburg | The surrounding of the city of Vicksburg, Mississippi, by Union forces |
Sherman's march to sea | Union general Sherman's destructive march across Georgia |
Appomattox Court House | town in Virginia where Lee surrendered to Grant |
Walt Whitman | Poet who wrote about the Civil War |
Ford's Theatre | Washington, D.C. theater where Lincoln was shot |
John Wilkes Booth | Confederate supporter who assassinated Abraham Lincoln |
Thirteenth Amendment | Constitutional amendment that ended slavery |