20 Terms
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| Thirteenth Amendment | abolished slavery in the United States
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| Siege of Vicksburg | Union victory that enabled the Union to control the Mississippi River
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| Battle of Gettysburg | Union victory that ended with Pickett's charge. Turning point of the war.
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| Income Tax | tax on the earnings/income
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| Emancipation Proclamation | issued by Abraham Lincoln on September 22, 1862 that declared that all slaves in the Confederate states would be free.
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| 54th Massachusetts Regiment | one of the first African-American regiments organized to fight for the Union
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| Antietam | the first major battle of the American Civil War that took place on Northern soil. Following this battle, Lincoln announced the Emancipation Proclamation
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| Battles of Shiloh | Confederate forces surprised the Union troops and drove them across the Tennessee River; Union ended up getting reinforcements and won but with great losses as it was one of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War
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| Ulysses S. Grant | leader of the Union troops, famous for winning the Battle of Shiloh
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| Battle of Bull Run/Manassas | the first real battle of the American Civil War
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| Robert E. Lee | General of the Confederate Troops
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| Fort Sumter | marked the beginning of the American Civil War where the Confederates opened fire on the Union fort
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| Confederate States of America | the southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861
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| Jefferson Davis | the President of the Confederate States of America
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| Dred Scott | American slaved who sued his master for keeping him enslaved in a territory that slavery had been abolished under the Missouri Compromise
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| Popular Sovereignty | the people's right to vote; people hold the final authority in all matters of government
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| Kansas Nebraska Act | set up Kansas and Nebraska as states, where each state would use popular sovereignty to decide what to do about slavery.
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| Fugitive Slave Act | law the provided for the harsh treatment for escaped slaves and for those who helped them
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| Uncle Tom's Cabin | antislavery novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe
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| William Tecumseh Sherman | Union General who destroyed the South in his March to the Sea campaign by using total war
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