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A loose union of independent states; name of government used by the southern states that seceded during the Civil War
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Confederacy
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Rights and powers held by individual US states rather than by the federal government.
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states rights
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A loose union of independent states; name of government used by the southern states that seceded during the Civil War
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Rights and powers held by individual US states rather than by the federal government.
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Wooden ships with metal armor that were employed by both sides during the Civil War.
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New bullet created before the Civil War, led to a high number of casualties during the war.
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16th President of the United States who saved the Union during the Civil War and emancipated (freed) the slaves; was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
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An American statesman and politician who served as President of the Confederate States of America (1861 to 1865).
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A form of fighting in which opposing armies battle each other from ditches dug in the battlefield.
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Failed confederate attack during the Civil War led by general George Pickett at the Battle of Gettysburg.
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General William Tecumseh Sherman's march to Savannah, Georgia, which cut off confederate supplies received by the sea.
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July 1-3, 1863, turning point in war, Union victory, most deadly battle.
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The most infamous prison in the south. There was no shelter. There was a huge population, and there were food shortages, overcrowding, and disease that killed about 100 men a day during the summer months.
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First ironclad warship commissioned by the United States Navy.
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Sherman's Special Field Order; slogan promising blacks (freedman) forty acres of land & a mule to plow with.
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An American stage actor who, as part of a conspiracy plot, assassinated Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865.
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not strict; generous.
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The intention or desire to do evil; ill will.
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A state of perplexity or doubt.
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Isolation to prevent the spread of disease.
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Either of the two times of the year when the sun is at its greatest distance from the celestial equator.
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The right to vote in political elections.
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A close relationship between two species that benefits at least one of the species.
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The period after the Civil War in the United States when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union.
