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UNIT VIII

Civil War/Reconstruction

TermDefinition
Union The northern states that were mostly anti-slavery.
Confederacy The southern states that were moslty in support of slavery.
Jefferson Davis The president of the Confederacy.
Fort Sumter A battle in what is now South Carolina that started the Civil War when the US army surrendered.
Border States Any of the slave states that bordered the northern free states during the US Civil War.
Battle of Bull Run The first battle of the American Civil War, fought in Virginia near Washington, D.C. The surprising victory of the Confederate army humiliated the North.
Anaconda Plan Union Army outline strategy for defeating the Confederacy at the beginning of the American Civil War.
Winfield Scott He served in the military for 50 years including in the Mexican War and the Civil War where he proposed the Anaconda Plan for the north.
Stonewall Jackson General in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War whose troops at the first Battle of Bull Run stood like a stone wall
Battle of Antietam The battle ended the Confederate invasion of Maryland in 1862 and resulted in a Union victory. It also led to President Abraham Lincoln issuing the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation and had the single bloodiest day in US history.
Robert E. Lee Commander of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.
Emancipation Proclamation Freed the slaves.
Clara Barton Organized the Red Cross
Gettysburg Address Lincoln's speech to bring the country (especially the North) together, when it was divided by different views of the Civil War.
Battle of Vicksburg Allowed the Union Army to take control of the Mississippi River from the Confederacy and end the Civil War.
Sherman's March to the Sea Sherman led some 60,000 soldiers on a 285-mile march from Atlanta to Savannah, Georgia to t frighten Georgia's civilian population into abandoning the Confederate cause.
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