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8thAmHisCh.16Sec1-4
8th Grade American History Chapter 16 Sec. 1-4
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Fort Sumter | a federal outpost attacked by Confederate troops that began the Civil War |
| border states | slave states that did not join the Confederacy |
| cotton diplomacy | the idea that Britain would support the Confederacy because it needed the south's cotton for its textile industry |
| First Battle of Bull Run | the first major battle of the Civil War, and the Confederates won |
| Seven Days' Battles | a series of clashes that forced the Union army to retreat from Richmond |
| Second Battle of Bull Run | a three day battle where Jackson's troops met Pope's Union forces |
| Battle of Antietam | the bloodiest single-day battle of the Civil War and of US history |
| ironclads | ships heavily armored with iron |
| Battle of Shiloh | a battle where the Union army gained greater control of the Mississippi River valley |
| Siege of Vicksburg | a battle where Grant's troops cut off the city shelling it repeatedly |
| emancipation | the freeing of slaves |
| Emancipation Proclalmation | written by Lincoln ordering to free the Confederate slaves |
| contrabands | escaped slaves |
| 54th Massachusetts Infantry | a regiment consisting mostly of free African Americans |
| Copperheads | midwesterners that sympathized with the South and opposed abolition |
| Habeas corpus | constitutional protection against unlawful imprisonment |