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16th President of the United States saved the Union during the Civil War and emancipated the slaves; was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
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Abraham Lincoln
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Murder of a public figure, usually for political reasons.
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assassination
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16th President of the United States saved the Union during the Civil War and emancipated the slaves; was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
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Murder of a public figure, usually for political reasons.
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Political party's formal statement of basic principles, stands on major issues, and objectives.
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Withdraw formally from membership in a federal union, an alliance, or a political or religious organization.
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A republic formed in February of 1861 and composed of the eleven Southern states that seceded from the United States.
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President of the Confederate States of America.
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1860 compromise proposal on the slavery issue that would have allowed slavery to continue in the South and would have denied Congress the power to regulate interstate slave trade.
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Not allowed under the constitution.
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Person whose views are between conservative and liberal and may include some of both ideologies.
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Federal fort in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina; the confederate attack on the fort marked the start of the Civil War.
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Confederate general who had opposed secession but did not believe the Union should be held together by force.
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Slave states on the border between the North and South: Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri.
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Expression used by Southern authors and orators before Civil War to indicate economic dominance of Southern cotton industry, and that North needed South's cotton. Coined by James Hammond
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Union war strategy by Winfield Scott, called for blockade of southern coast, capture of Richmond, capture Mississippi River, and to take an army through heart of south.
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War measure that isolates some area of importance to the enemy.
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First "real" battle of the Civil War, it was expected by Union officials to be short but ended up a Confederate victory.