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Chapter 17 Creating America
Chapter 17 HOT Words from Creating America
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8th Grade
01/28/2009

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1. Emancipation Proclamation
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Lincoln's announcement that all slaves in the C.S.A. would be freed as of 1 January 1863 in order to weaken Southern military strength.
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2. 54th Massachusetts Regiment
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The most famous African-American regiment in the U.S. Army which proved its bravery during the failed attack on Fort Wagner in July 1863.
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3. conscription
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The drafting of men into the military by the government to fight in a war.
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4. Battle of Gettysburg
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Massive three-day battle in southern Pennsylvania between Lee and Meade from 1-3 July 1863 which ended with the Confederate's disastrous Pickett's Charge. The second Confederate invasion of the North was repulsed.
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5. Ulysses S. Grant
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Talented Union general who captured Vicksburg, was made commander of all Union armies, and ultimately forced the surrender of Lee's army ending the Civil War.
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6. Robert E. Lee
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Talented Confederate general who was responsible for ordering Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg, fought a series of battles against Grant in Virginia, and ultimately surrendered his army to Grant at Appomattox.
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7. Siege of Vicksburg
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Grant captured the last remaining Confederate fort on the Mississippi River on 4 July 1863 fulfilling that part of the Anaconda Plan.
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8. William Tecumseh Sherman
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Union General who was ordered by Grant to destroy Georgia. He captured a number of southern cities including Atlanta, Savannah, Columbia, and Raleigh.
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9. Appomattox Court House
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The small Virginia town where Lee surrendered to Grant on 9 April 1865 ending the Civil War.
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10. Thirteenth Amendment
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Passed by Congress in January 1865, this amendment banned slavery in the U.S.
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