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Civil War

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Election of 1860   Republicans nominated Lincoln, the Democrats chose one candidate from the North and another from the South. The split party allowed Lincoln to win, without winning a single Southern state.  
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Abraham Lincoln   "Honest Abe" ran for president on a platform that opposed the extension of slavery in the territories, but not in the South.  
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Confederate States of America   states the seceded from the United States after Lincoln was elected president  
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Jefferson Davis   President of the Confederacy  
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Lincoln's First Inaugural Address   reassured Southerners that he would not interfere with slavery; he would do whatever it took to preserve the Union, by force if necessary  
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Fort Sumter   federal fort in South Carolina; Lincoln refused to surrender the fort to South Carolina, Confederate forces fired on it to begin the Civil War  
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"Anaconda Plan"   Northern long-term strategy suggested by General Winfield Scott that aimed at strangling the South  
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Robert E. Lee   General, highly respected on both sides, who ultimately decided to fight on the side of his home state of Virginia  
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Conscription (Draft)   required military service  
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"Stonewall" Jackson   Confederate General forced to retreat from the Battle of Bull Run. Widely regarded as one of the best Confederate commanders  
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Battle of Antietam   aka Battle of Sharpsburg; bloodiest single day of the Civil War  
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"Battle Hymn of the Republic"   Marching song for the Union Army to the tune of "John Brown's Body" with words by Julia Ward Brown  
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Emancipation Proclamation   document freeing the slaves of the rebelling states, not in the loyal boarder states; disrupted the Confederacy's plantation economy and ended chances of French and British intervention  
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Battle of Gettysburg   turning point in the war in which Lee's army suffered havy casualties and was forced to retreat  
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Gettysburg Address   Lincoln's speech that explained the meaning of the Civil War  
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Battle of Vicksburg   Confederacy controlled movement along the Mississippi River until General Grant and the Union forces won this battle after a 47-day siege  
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William Carney   first African American to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor  
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Ulysses S. Grant   Placed in charge of all Union forces after the Battle of Vicksburg - his goal was the total destruction of Confederate forces  
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William T. Sherman   General sent with a Union army across Georgia to further divide the Confederacy  
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Phillip Bazaar   first Hispanic-American to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor  
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Election of 1864   Republican Abraham Lincoln versus Democrat George McClellan with Lincoln winning the election  
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Second Inaugural Address   focus was on the sin of slavery - Southern slave owners had been willing to make war on the Union rather than give up their slaves  
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Appomattox Court House   site of General Lee's surrender - ending the Civil War  
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John Wilkes Boothe   actor who shot and assassinated Abraham Lincoln  
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