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SS Unit 7:
Question | Answer |
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Border States | A slave state that stayed with the Union during the Civil War. |
First Battle of Bull Run | First major battle in the Civil War; fought in Virginia in 1861. |
Battle of Shiloh | An 1862 Civil War battle in Tennessee that ended i a Union victory. |
Battle of Fredericksburg | An 1862 Civil War battle in Virginia; one of the Union's worst defeats. |
Emancipation Proclamation | Lincoln's 1863 declaration freeing slaves in the Confederacy. |
Battle & Siege of Vicksburg | One of the turning points of the war. |
Total War | All-out war that affects civilians at home as well as soldiers in combat. |
Robert E. Lee | He graduated at West Point, and fought for the South. |
George McClellan | Union army general. |
Second Battle of Bull Run | 1862 battle, South won. |
Battle of Chancellorsville | An 1863 Civil War battle in Virginia; important victory for the Confederacy. |
Habeas Corpus | The right not to be held in prison without first being charged with a spasific crime. |
Battle of Gettysburg | An 1863 Civil War battle in Pennsylvania that ended a Confederate invasion of the North. |
Appomattox Court House | Virginia town that was the site of the Confederate surrender in 1865. |
Stonewall Jackson | Major general of the Confederates. |
Monitor v. Merrimac | A battle between 2 iron ships, Confederates tried to break the barrier around their main port. |
Battle of Antietam | An 1862 Civil War battle in Maryland. |
Ulysses S Grant | General of the Union Army. |
Copperheads | Northerner who opposed using force to keep the southern states in the Union. |
Gettysburg Address | Speech mede by President Lincoln in 1863 after teh battle of Gettysburg. |
William T. Sherman | Union general who helped engage total war upon the Confederates. |