Unit 61820 – 1877
A Nation Divided
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Vocabulary
Standard 7.8d — The Course of the Civil War: 0 of 11 Words Mastered
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Standard 7.8d — The Course of the Civil War
Anaconda Plan
The Union’s plan for winning the war: block Southern ports, take control of the Mississippi River, and squeeze the Confederacy from every side like a snake. That would cut off supplies and cut the South in two.
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Sit Tight and Wait it Out Plan
The Confederacy’s plan: defend their own land until the North got tired and gave up. They also expected help from foreign countries that needed Southern cotton. They thought time was on their side.
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The Gettysburg Address
A short, powerful speech Lincoln gave in 1863 after the Battle of Gettysburg. He honored the soldiers who died there and said the war was a fight to protect democracy and freedom, calling for "a new birth of freedom."
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The Emancipation Proclamation
An order Lincoln issued on January 1, 1863. It declared that all enslaved people in the Confederate states were free. It did not free everyone right away. But it did make ending slavery one of the goals of the war.
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Sherman’s March to the Sea and Total War
In total war, an army attacks more than just enemy soldiers. It also goes after the farms, factories, and railroads that keep those soldiers supplied. Union General William Tecumseh Sherman did this in 1864. He marched from Atlanta to Savannah, Georgia, wrecking what lay in his path. The goal was to break the South’s ability to keep fighting.
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Appomattox Court House
The village in Virginia where General Robert E. Lee surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant in April 1865. That ended the major fighting of the Civil War, and the war officially ended soon after.
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13th Amendment
The change to the Constitution that made slavery illegal in the United States. Congress passed it in 1865, just after the Civil War ended, and it freed enslaved people in every state, North and South.
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Juneteenth
On June 19, 1865, enslaved people in Texas finally learned they were free. That was more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation. Today it is a holiday. It marks the end of slavery and celebrates African American freedom and culture.
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Casualty
Anyone killed, wounded, missing, or captured in a war. The Civil War had more than 600,000, which makes it the deadliest war in U.S. history. Single battles left huge numbers of dead and wounded on both sides.
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Robert E. Lee
The Confederate Army’s top general. He was asked to lead the Union Army first, but when his home state of Virginia seceded he chose to fight for it instead. He was known as a brilliant military commander.
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John Wilkes Booth
A well-known actor who backed the South. He shot and killed President Lincoln in April 1865, just days after the war ended. He thought he was helping the South. Instead he shocked the whole country, and his name is still one of the most hated in U.S. history.
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Standard 7.8a — Sectional Differences
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Standard 7.8a — Sectional Differences: 0 of 15 terms mastered.Standard 7.8b — Slavery in the New Territories
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Standard 7.8b — Slavery in the New Territories: 0 of 12 terms mastered.Standard 7.8c — Causes of the Civil War
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Standard 7.8c — Causes of the Civil War: 0 of 10 terms mastered.Standard 7.8d — The Course of the Civil War
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Standard 7.8d — The Course of the Civil War: 0 of 11 terms mastered.Other Vocabulary — Not listed under a standard
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Other Vocabulary — not listed under a standard: 0 of 1 terms mastered.