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Topic 2 "Civil War"

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Anaconda Plan   Northern Civil War strategy to starve the south by blockading seaports and controlling the Mississippi River  
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Stonewall Jackson   Confederate general known for leading his troops in the Battle of Bull Run where they withstood a major push from the Union army and General Irvin McDowell  
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Shiloh   1862 Civil War battle fought in southwestern Tennessee resulting in a Union victory and nearly 25,000 deaths.  
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Ulysses S. Grant   Notable Union general and leader of the Radical Republicans. Led Union troops to victory against Robert. E Lee and become the 18th president of the United States.  
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Robert E. Lee   Confederate General and leader who surrendered his troops at the Appomattox Courthouse ending the American Civil War  
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Contraband   Supplies captured by the enemy during wartime.  
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Antietam   1862 Civil War battle in which 23,000 troops were killed or wounded in one day.  
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Emancipation Proclamation   Decree by President Lincoln that freed enslaved people living in Confederate States still in rebellion.  
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Militia Act   1862 law that allowed African Americans to serve in the Union military.  
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54 Massachusetts Regiment   Union militia that was one of the first official African American Units in the United States during the Civil War.  
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Homestead Act   1862 law that gave 160 acres of land to citizens willing to live on and cultivate it for 5 years.  
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Vicksburg   Confederate stronghold on the Mississippi River that surrendered to Union forces in 1863 after a siege.  
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Gettysburg   Civil War battle and Union victory involving the most casualties in the entire war. Also referred to as the biggest turning point in the entire war.  
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Total War   Military strategy in which an army attacks not only enemy troops but the economic and civilian resources that support them.  
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William T. Sherman   Union general that is known for his march through the south forcing the surrender of all the Confederate armies in the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida in 1865.  
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Thirteenth Amendment   1865 constitutional amendment that abolished slavery  
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Clara Barton   Nurse during the Civil War that went on to found the American branch of the Red Cross organization  
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Appomattox Court House   Site where Confederate general Robert E. Lee surrendered to the Union.  
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