Goal 3 set 4
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Moniques12 on February 13, 2012
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Conscription | compulsory enrollment of persons for military or naval service; draft. |
| Copperhead | A Northern Democrat who opposed the Civil War, advocating peace and restoration of the Union even if slavery continued. |
| Habeas Corpus | a document requiring that a prisoner be brought before a court or judge so that it can be decided whether his or her imprisonment is legal. |
| Inflation | an increase in the overall level of prices in the economy |
| Clara Barton | Launched the American Red Cross in 1881. An "angel" in the Civil War, she treated the wounded in the field. |
| Vicksburg | Grant's best fought campaign, this siege ended in the seizure of the Mississippi River by the Union |
| Gettysburg | The most violent battle of the American Civil War and is frequently cited as the war's turning point, fought from July 1 - July 3, 1863. |
| Gettysburg Address | famous speech given by Abraham Lincoln to remember those lost at the last major battle of the Civil War |
| Total War | a war that involves the complete mobilization of resources and people, affecting the lives of all citizens in the warring countries, even those remote from the battlefields. |
| William Tecumseh Sherman | United States general who was commander of all Union troops in the West he captured Atlanta and led a destructive march to the sea that cut the Confederacy in two (1820-1891) |
| Thirteenth Amendment | abolished slavery |
| John Wilkes Booth | was an American stage actor who, as part of a conspiracy plot, assassinated Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. on April 14, 1865. |
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