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Bagnoni US Unit 3
Term | Definition |
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secession | withdrawing from the Union |
Election of 1860 | Abe Lincoln was victorious without any support from Southern States; caused lower South to secede |
Fort Sumter, SC | 1st shots of the Civil War were fired |
Jefferson Davis | president of Confederacy |
Anaconda Plan | Union war plan to surround the South with a blockade |
First Battle of Bull Run/Manassas | first major battle in Civil War |
Antietam | bloodiest day of the war; Lincoln used the victory to issue the Emancipation Proclamation; the victory helped insure that Britain would not help the Confederacy |