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5/14 -Copy vocabulary words in NB
1. Civil War - The war fought in the United States between northern (Union) and southern (Confederate) states from 1861 to 1865, in which the Confederacy sought to establish itself as a separate nation. The Civil War is also known as the War for Southern Independence and as the War between the States.
2. Anaconda Plan - Name given to the Civil War plan devised by Union General Winfield Scott to seal the South off from the rest of the world.
3. blockade - to stop people or supplies from entering or leaving (a port or country) especially during a war.
4. Emancipation Proclamation - President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."
5. Gettysburg Address - A speech delivered by Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War. Lincoln was speaking at the dedication of a soldiers' cemetery at the site of the Battle ofGettysburg
6. total war - a war that is unrestricted in terms of the weapons used, the territory or combatants involved, or the objectives pursued, especially one in which the laws of war are disregarded.
7. Robert E. Lee - Robert Edward Lee was an American soldier best known for commanding the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia in the American Civil War from 1862 until his surrender in 1865.
8. Thomas “Stonewall”Jackson - Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson was a Confederate general during the American Civil War, and the best-known Confederate commander after General Robert E. Lee.
9. Fort Sumter - the location in Charleston, South Carolina where the first battle of the Civil War began on April 12, 1861
10. Antietam - Creek that was the site of the Battle of Antietam, the bloodiest day of the Civil War. More than 23,000 men lost their lives on Sept. 17. General George McClellan had moved to intercept a Southern advance into Maryland
