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Civil War

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Civil War   a war between different groups of people of the same nation  
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United States Military Academy at West Point   New York, the training ground for many officers on both sides of the Civil War  
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Strategy   the overall military plan for defeating an enemy or winning a conflict  
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Blockade   a military strategy that aims to cut off supplies going in and out of an area  
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Tactic   a method of using forces in combat  
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Draft   a system of selecting individuals from a group for compulsory military service  
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Emancipation Proclamation   a document written by Abraham Lincoln changing the Union’s war aims to include fighting to free enslaved African Americans in the Confederate States  
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Gettysburg Address   a speech by Abraham Lincoln at Gettysburg during a ceremony to honor those who had died in the Battle of Gettysburg  
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Surrender   when soldiers stop fighting in an attempt to end a military war or conflict, often including written terms of agreement; often symbolized by a white flag  
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