Civil War Essential Vocabulary

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  1. 3. Confederate general who had opposed secession but did not believe the Union should be held together by force
  2. 7. Issued by Abraham Lincoln on September 22, 1862 it declared that all slaves in the confederate states would be free
  3. 8. Union General who destroyed South during "march to the sea" from Atlanta to Savannah, example of total war
  4. 13. Famous as the site of the surrender of the Confederate Army under Robert E. Lee to Union commander Ulysses S. Grant
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  1. 1. A military draft
  2. 2. American politician who served as the only President of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1865
  3. 4. all-black unit led by Union Colonel Robert Gould Shaw during the Civil War
  4. 5. 1863 Union army's blockade of Vicksburg, Mississippi, that led the city to surrender during the Civil War
  5. 6. U.S. Union Army outline strategy for suppressing the Confederacy at the beginning of the American Civil War
  6. 9. 16th President of the United States
  7. 10. An American general and the eighteenth President of the United States (1869-1877). He achieved international fame as the leading Union general in the American Civil War.
  8. 11. The constitutional amendment ratified after the Civil War that forbade slavery and involuntary servitude.
  9. 12. Turning point of the War that made it clear the North would win. 50,000 people died, and the South lost its chance to invade the North.