Wyatt Waring

Question 1

Civil War

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A war between opposing groups of citizens of the same country

Question 2

Draft

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A system of required military service

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Martial Law

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A type of rule in which the military is in charge and citizens’ rights are suspended

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Neutral

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Not favoring either side in a conflict

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Casualties

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The military term for persons killed, wounded, or missing in action

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Emancipate

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Free

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Habeas corpus

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Constitutional protection against unlawful imprisonment

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Siege

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An attempt to capture a place by surrounding it with military forces and cutting it off until the people inside surrender

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Inflation

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A general rise in price

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Income tax

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Tax paid to state , Federal , and local governments based on income earned over the past year

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Confederate States of America

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The southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861

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Blockade

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A military action to prevent traffic from coming into an area or leaving it

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Secede

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To withdraw from an organization or communion

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Abolitionist

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One in favor of ending slavery

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Civil

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Related to the government or its citizens

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Slavery

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The states of a person who is property of another …owning another person

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Union

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The states that remained loyal to the federal government during the Civil War. The action or effect of joining or being joined especially in a political context

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Fort Sumter

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The bombardment and surrender of this site, near Charleston, South Carolina, started the American Civil War

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Confederacy

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A league or Alliance, especially of Confederate States

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Border states

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1. Maryland 2. Missouri 3. Kentucky 4. Delaware. Slave states that did not secede

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Abraham Lincoln

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16th president of the US. He served from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865

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Robert E. Lee

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He commanded the Confederate Army from 1862 until his surrender in 1865

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54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment

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African-American unit in the Union Army

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Ulysses S. Grant

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Commanding Union general who led the Union Army to victory over the Confederacy

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Bull Run

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The first major Clash of Union and Confederate armies

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Emancipation Proclamation

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Executive order issued on January 1, 1863 by President Lincoln freeing slaves in all portions of the u.s. not under Union control

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Appomattox Court House

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Where the surrender of the Confederate Army under Robert E. Lee to the Union Army under Ulysses S. Grant took place on April 9, 1865

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Ironclad

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Warship covered with protective iron plates

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Total War

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All out attacks aimed at destroying an enemy’s Army, its resources, and it’s people’s will to fight