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civil war
vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Cavalry | That part of military force which serves on horseback |
| Confederacy | The eleven states that seceded from the US to form their own country |
| Union | The USA |
| Yankee | Common term for a union soldier |
| Rebel | Common term for a confederate soldier |
| Infantry | Group of men who traveled and fight on foot |
| Gettysburg address | Two min speech by President Lincoln at a ceremony dedicating the battlefield as a national cemetery |
| emancipation proclamation | issued by president lincoln freeing all the slaves |
| civil war | People from the same country fighting against each other |
| secede | to leave the union |