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Civil War

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show Republicans nominated Lincoln, the Democrats chose one candidate from the North and another from the South. The split party allowed Lincoln to win, without winning a single Southern state.  
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show "Honest Abe" ran for president on a platform that opposed the extension of slavery in the territories, but not in the South.  
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Confederate States of America   show
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Jefferson Davis   show
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Lincoln's First Inaugural Address   show
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show federal fort in South Carolina; Lincoln refused to surrender the fort to South Carolina, Confederate forces fired on it to begin the Civil War  
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show Northern long-term strategy suggested by General Winfield Scott that aimed at strangling the South  
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Robert E. Lee   show
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show required military service  
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"Stonewall" Jackson   show
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show aka Battle of Sharpsburg; bloodiest single day of the Civil War  
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"Battle Hymn of the Republic"   show
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show document freeing the slaves of the rebelling states, not in the loyal boarder states; disrupted the Confederacy's plantation economy and ended chances of French and British intervention  
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show turning point in the war in which Lee's army suffered havy casualties and was forced to retreat  
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Gettysburg Address   show
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show Confederacy controlled movement along the Mississippi River until General Grant and the Union forces won this battle after a 47-day siege  
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show first African American to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor  
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show Placed in charge of all Union forces after the Battle of Vicksburg - his goal was the total destruction of Confederate forces  
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show General sent with a Union army across Georgia to further divide the Confederacy  
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show first Hispanic-American to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor  
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Election of 1864   show
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show focus was on the sin of slavery - Southern slave owners had been willing to make war on the Union rather than give up their slaves  
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show site of General Lee's surrender - ending the Civil War  
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show actor who shot and assassinated Abraham Lincoln  
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