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Border states - did not join confederacy

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Kentucky Missouri Maryland Delaware

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A federal outpost in charleston,sc that was attacked by the confederate army beginning civil war

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Fort Sumter

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States seceded from union

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SC
Georgia
Alabama
Mississippi 
Texas
Louisiana 
Florida
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Lincoln’s order to free slaves in confederate states

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Emancipation proclamation

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A constitutional protection against unlawful imprisonment

Lincoln changed this in the constitution so he could arrest copperheads

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Habeas Corpus

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Civil war nurse who organized collection of medicine supplies for the battlefield

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Clara Barton

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Where lee surrendered to grant ending civil war

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Appomattox courthouse

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Failed confederate attack on cemetery ridge at Gettysburg led 15,000 men

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Pickets charge

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Confederate general nickname for holding fast at first battle of bull run

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Stonewall Jackson

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Biggest killer in war

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Disease
Typhoid
Pneumonia
Tuberculosis

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First battle of civil war took place

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Fort Sumter

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South hoped to gain help of British during war by selling

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Cotton

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Advantages north had over south

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Population
Transport
Money

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Year West Virginia joined union

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1863

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Jackson was general for

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South

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Bloodiest single day battle

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battle of Antietam

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Union naval blockade set up to

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Stop south from receiving goods

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Confederates used small fast ships to get past ______ that was set up by union

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Naval blockade

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Total amount days the war lasted at battles of bull run

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4 days

1 for battle bull run

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Grants first two victories at these forts

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Fort Henry

Fort donelson

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Leader in capture of New Orleans for union

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Farragut

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Ate dogs and rats

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Siege of Vicksburg

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Group of Indians helped confederates out west believing they would gain more freedom

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Cherokee

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Focus of war in west

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Gain control of Mississippi River

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Angel of battlefield

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Barton

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Peace democrats opposed Lincoln and felt sorry for the south

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Copperheads

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Feared emancipation bc they thought freed slaves could take over their jobs

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Laborers

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2 things might happen to african American soldiers if they were captured in war

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Killed of sold as slaves

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Union forces found these two places to set up defensive positions at Gettysburg

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Cemetery ridge

Culps hill

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Given to praise union soldiers who died

One of most famous speeches

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Gettysburg address

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Sherman’s plan was to knock

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Railroad links

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Confederates survived pickets charge

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Fewer than half

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2 documents delivers during office

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Emancipation proc

Gettysburg address

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Lincoln’s promise in inaugural address

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To not end slavery

Union would stay together

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Had more railroads

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Union

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Difficult to blockade

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Confederacy

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First battle civil war and confederate victory

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1st battle bull run

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Union army gained greater control of the Mississippi River

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Battle of Shiloh

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Unions 6 week blockade of the city let to a confederate surrender

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Siege of Vicksburg

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3 day battle bloodiest of civil war

Turning point stopped lee from invading north

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Battle of Gettysburg

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Colors of union and confederacy

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Blue

Grey

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Created palm to block trade from south

Control Mississippi River

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Scott

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Advantages confederates had

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Brilliant officers
Food
Defend themselves on their own soil

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Advantages of union

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Railroads
Farmland
Developed economy
Large pop

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