The Civil War Vocabulary

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  1. 3. Northern Democrats who opposed the Civil War and sympathized with the South
  2. 5. diplomacy Confederate efforts to use the importance of southern cotton to Britain's textile industry to persuade the British to support the Confederacy in the Civil War
  3. 9. E. Lee Commander of the Confederate Army
  4. 10. Sumter Federal fort in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina; the confederate attack on the fort marked the start of the Civil War
  5. 13. Proclamation Proclamation issued by Lincoln, freeing all slaves in areas still at war with the Union.
  6. 14. Jackson general in the Confederate Army during the Civil War whose troops at the first Battle of Bull Run stood like a stone wall (1824-1863)
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  1. 1. Davis President of the Confederate States of America
  2. 2. Grant 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.
  3. 4. the freeing of slaves
  4. 6. states Slave states that did not secede
  5. 7. Address A 3-minute address by Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War (November 19, 1963) at the dedication of a national cemetery on the site of the Battle of Gettysburg
  6. 8. an escaped slave who joined the Union army during the Civil War
  7. 11. corpus Constitutional protection against unlawful imprisonment
  8. 12. Tecumseh Sherman Union General who destroyed South during "march to the sea" from Atlanta to Savannah, example of total war