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Civil War Erupts Vocabulary

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Fort Sumter

• Fort in South Carolina where the Civil War Began

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Secede

• to withdraw from or split away from

• The South seceded from the Union when Lincoln was elected president

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Confederacy

• What the states that had seceded called themselves

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Jefferson Davis

• Elected president of the Confederacy

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Robert E. Lee

• Main commander of the Confederate army

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Border States• States between the North and

the South - Missouri, Kentucky, and Maryland

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Washington D.C.

• Capital of the Union

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Richmond, Virginia• Capital of the Confederacy

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Abraham Lincoln

• President of the Union

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King Cotton

• Cotton was the most important agricultural product in the South.

• The South made a great deal of money on exporting cotton

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Anaconda Plan

• Union plan to cut the South in half making it difficult to supply the troops

• Named after a big snake

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blockade• an effort to cut off food,

supplies, war material or communications from a particular area by force

• The Union tried to blockade the Confederacy

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