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Civil War
Civil War
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Social Studies
8th Grade
01/31/2017

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Blockade
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Obstruct
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William T. Sherman
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Union Gen. who 'marched through GA'
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Ulysses S. Grant
Definition
Union Gen. end of the Civil War
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Robert E. Lee
Definition
Confederate Gen. end of the Civil War
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Emancipation Proclamation
Definition
Document that freed slaves in the Confederate States
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King Cotton Diplomacy
Definition
Confederacy stopped selling cotton to G.B. and France so the would support the South
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March to The Sea
Definition
Union moved through GA destroying much of GA
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Appomattox Courthouse, Virgina
Definition
Site of surrender to end the Civil War
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Civil War
Definition
War within a nation due to sectional differences
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Antietam
Definition
Bloodiest one day battle of Civil War; Emancipation Proclamtion followed
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Fort Sumter
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Site of first battle of Civil War
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Atlanta Campaign
Definition
Series of battles leading up to the fall of Atlanta
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Gettysburg
Definition
Considered turning point of Civil War
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Chickamauga
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Site of battle that forced Union soldiers back into Tennessee
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Andersonville
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Confederate Prison
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Anaconda Plan
Definition
Northern Plan to cut the Confederacy in 1/2
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