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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Fort Sumter | A federal outpost in Charleston, South Carolina, that was attacked by the confederates in April 1861, sparking the Civil War |
| Border states | A slave state that lay between the North and the South and did not join the Confederacy during the Civil War; Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri were border states |
| 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 |
| First Battle of Bull Run | The first major battle of the Civil War, resulting in a Confederate victory; showed that the Civil War would not be won easily |
| Battle of Antietam | A Union victory in the Civil War that marked the bloodiest single-day battle in U.S. military history |
| ironclads | A warship that is heavily armored with iron |
| Ulysses S. Grant | Eighteenth president of the United States, he was a general in charge of the Union forces. |
| Siege of Vicksburg | The Union army’s six-week blockade of Vicksburg that led the city to surrender during the Civil War |
| Emancipation Proclamation | An order issued by President Abraham Lincoln freeing the slaves in areas rebelling against the Union; took effect January 1, 1863 |
| contrabands | An escaped slave who joined the Union army during the Civil War |
| 54th Massachusetts Infantry | African American Civil War regiment that captured 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 Abraham Lincoln in which he praised the bravery of Union soldiers and renewed his 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 Court | The location where General Robert E. Lee was forced to surrender, thus ending the Civil War |