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Civil War Vocabulary Terms

TermDefinition
Abraham Lincoln The 16th president of the United States who led the Union during the Civil War.
Jefferson Davis The president of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War.
Confederacy The group of Southern states that separated from the United States during the Civil War.
Union The Northern states that remained loyal to the United States government during the Civil War.
Civil War A war fought between groups within the same country; in the United States, it was fought from 1861–1865.
Fort Sumter The federal fort in South Carolina where the first shots of the Civil War were fired.
Emancipation Proclamation An order issued by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863 that declared enslaved people in Confederate states to be free.
Gettysburg A major Civil War battle in Pennsylvania that became a turning point in the war.
Gettysburg Address A famous speech given by Abraham Lincoln honoring soldiers who died at Gettysburg.
Blockade The use of naval forces to prevent goods and supplies from entering or leaving ports.
Ironclad A warship covered with iron armor used during the Civil War.
Ulysses S. Grant The commanding general of the Union Army who later became President of the United States.
Reconstruction The period after the Civil War when the South was rebuilt and Southern states rejoined the Union.
Robert E. Lee The commander of the Confederate Army during most of the Civil War.
Plantation A large farm, especially in the South, where crops were grown using enslaved labor.
Draft A system requiring men to serve in the military.
Siege A military tactic in which an army surrounds a place to force it to surrender.
Surrender The act of giving up to an opposing army.
Appomattox Court House The Virginia town where Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union General Ulysses S. Grant in 1865.
Confederate States of America The official name of the Southern states that left the Union.
Union Army The military forces of the Northern states during the Civil War.
Confederate Army The military forces of the Southern states during the Civil War.
Freedmen Formerly enslaved people who gained freedom after the Civil War.
Battle of Antietam The bloodiest single-day battle in American history, fought in Maryland in 1862.
Total War A military strategy that destroys not only armies but also the resources and infrastructure supporting them.
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