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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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