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Unit 10 Civil War
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Border States | Slave states that lay between the North and the South that did not join the Confederacy during the Civil War. |
| Cotton Diplomacy | Confederate efforts to use the importance of southern cotton to Britain’s textile industry to persuade the British to support the Confederacy in the Civil War. |
| Emancipation | Freeing of the slaves. |
| Emancipation Proclamation | An 1862 order issued by President Lincoln freeing the slaves in areas rebelling against the Union, in which went into effect on January 1, 1863. |
| 54th Massachusetts Infantry | African American Civil War regiment that attacked Fort Wagner in South Carolina. |
| Habeas Corpus | The constitutional protection against unlawful imprisonment. |
| Battle of Gettysburg | A Union Civil War victory that turned the tide against the Confederates at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. |
| Gettysburg Address | A speech given by President Lincoln in 1863 in which he praised the bravery of Union soldiers and renewed commitment to winning the Civil War. |
| Total War | A type of war in which an army destroys its opponent’s ability to fight by targeting civilian and economic as well as military resources. |
| Appomattox Courthouse | The location where General Robert E. Lee was forced to surrender, thus ending the Civil War. |