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  1. 3. best known for his service to the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War, during which he was appointed the overall commander of the Confederate States Army.
  2. 8. served as a Confederate general during the American Civil War and became one of the best-known Confederate commanders
  3. 10. The First major battle of the civil war and a victory for the south.
  4. 13. 18th president of the United States
  5. 15. Uprising, Mostly of working-class Irish Americans, in protest of the draft.
  6. 16. Paper currency issued by the union treasury during the civil war.
  7. 18. Five slave states Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, Delaware, and West Virginia- that did not secede during the civil war.
  8. 20. Main leader of the copperhead faction of anti-war democrats
  9. 21. Landmark battle in the civil war that essentially ended in a draw but demonstrated the prowess of the union army, forestalling foreign intervention and giving Lincoln the victory he needed to issue the emancipation proclamation.
  10. 22. Mountainous region that broke away from Virginia in 1861 to from its own state after Virginia seceded from the union.
  11. 23. Diplomatic row that threatened to bring the British into the civil war on the side of the Confederacy, after a union warship stoped a British steamer and arrested two Confederate diplomats on board
  12. 25. Two well-armed Ironclad warships constructed for the Confederacy by a British firm. Seeking to avoid war with the United States, the British government purchased the two ships for the Royal Navy instead
  13. 26. 6th chief justice of the United States and 23rd governor of Ohio
  14. 27. Petition requiring law enforcement officers to present detained individuals before the court to examine the legality of the arrest. Protects individuals from arbitrary state action.
  15. 28. South Carolina Location where confederate forces fired the first shots of the civil war in April of 1861
  16. 30. Unified Canadian government created by Britain to bolster Canadians against potential attacks or overturns from the United States.
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  1. 1. Union General George B. McClellan's failed effort to seize Richmond, the Confederate capital. Had McClellan taken Richmond and toppled the confederacy, slavery would have most likely survived in the south for some time.
  2. 2. Best known for his participation in the battle of gettysburg
  3. 4. Network of member banks that could issue currency against purchased government bonds.
  4. 5. Remembered by his decisive defeat by general Robert E. Lee at the Battle of Chancellorsville
  5. 6. Increased duties back up to 1846 levels to raise revenue for the civil war
  6. 7. Said that all slaves in the rebelling states to be free but it didn't affect the slaves in the non rebelling/border states.
  7. 9. Government agency founded with the help of Elizabeth Blackwell that trained nurses, collected medical supplies, and equipped hospitals in an effort to help the Union army.
  8. 11. Napoleon III was the first President of France from 1848 to 1852 and the Emperor of the French from 1852 to 1870.
  9. 12. Is best known for his defeat at the Second Battle of Bull Run in the East
  10. 14. Civil war Battle that ended in a decisive victory for confederate general Robert E. Lee, who was emboldened to push further into the north
  11. 17. A federal law that sold settlers 160 acres of land for about $30 if they lived on it for 5 years and improved it by, for instance, building a house on it.
  12. 19. Best known for him being a major architect of modern warfare
  13. 24. The Person who assassinated president Abraham Lincoln
  14. 29. British built and manned Confederate worship that raided Union shipping during the Civil War.