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The Civil War
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11th Grade
05/10/2009

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Elizabeth Blackwell
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The First Woman to earn a medical license and formed the U.S Sanitary Commission in 1861
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Lee
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The Best of the generals on either side, led the Army of Northern Virginia
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Fort Sumter
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The federal fort that was fired upon and captured by the Conferdacy which began the fighting of the Civil War.
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Appomattox
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The "Courthouse" where Lee surrendered to Grant ending the Civil War.
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Emancipation proclamation
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The military order that freed slaves only in areas controlled by the confederacy.
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Borderstates
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The four slave states that remained in the Union and controlled by hte Confederacy.
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copper heads
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Northern Democrats that opposed the war and objected to abolition.
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Antietam
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THe bloodiest single day battle of the civil war; it stopped Lee's first invasion into the North.
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cotton
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This diplomacy was based on the belief that the British government would support the South because of thier textile industries dependence on this commodity.
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Barton
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As a medical volunteer for the north, her work was the basis for the American Red Cross.
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Shaw
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The abolitionist who led the first African American Regiment; son of an abolitionist
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Anaconda Plan
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Genmeral Winfield Scott's plan for a naval blockade and control of the Missippi River to defeat the south.
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Vicksburg
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The seige of this city on the Missippi lasted for 6 weeks and cut the confederacy in half when it surrendered to Grant.
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Sugrant
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The Northern general who carried out the unions plan to destroy southern railroads and industries.
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Farragut
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The union naval commander whos heroics captured New Orleans and Helped control the Mississippi River.
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monitor
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The union ironclad which battled the Virginia to a draw but saved the Union fleet
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carner
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The first African American to earn the congressional Medal of Honor
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stonewall
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Thomas Jacksons nickname after his inspiring example at the first battle of the Copperheads
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contrabands
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Escaped slaves
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habeas corpus
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the constitutional protection against unlawful imprisonment which Lincoln suspended to stop the threat of the copperheads
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pearidge
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The union victory that gave most of the control of the state of Missouri to the north.
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total war
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Shermans strategy to destroy both military and civilian resources
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bull run
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the Northern name for the first land battle that rboke the hopes of the North for a quick and easy war.
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Brady
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photograhper
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William Tecumseh Sherman
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General, destroyed railroads and idrustrys.
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War of Attrition
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Grants plan of fighting until supplys ran out.
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Arlington
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Lees home and a cemetary
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Jefferson Davis
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President of Confederate States.
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Grant
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Strategy Ideas, unril ran our of supplys
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gettysburg
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Battle accord when lee wanted supply and troups
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Paraguai
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union navel commander
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