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Title: Women


1
Women
  • Performed many jobs that helped soldiers and the
    armies

2
First Battle of Bull Run
  • Won by the Confederates

3
Thirteenth Amendment
  • Freed all enslaved Americans in 1865

4
Border States
  • Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, and Delaware

5
Draft
  • Could be avoided by hiring someone to fight in
    your place

6
Battle of Shiloh
  • Resulted in enormous casualties on both sides

7
Battle of Gettysburg
  • A three-day battle that ended with Union victory

8
Jefferson Davis
  • President of the Confederacy

9
Emancipation Proclamation
  • Signed January 1, 1863

10
Dorothea DIx
  • Organized large numbers of women to serve as
    military nurse

11
Battle of Antietam
  • Bloodiest day of the Civil War

12
Robert E. Lee
  • Confederate general

13
Vicksburg
  • Gave the Union control of the Mississippi

14
Richmond
  • Confederate capital

15
Ambrose Burnside
  • Union general

16
March to the Sea
  • Advance by Shermans army to Savannah, Georgia

17
Yankees
  • Union soldiers

18
Emancipation Proclamation
  • Freed only slaves in areas held by the confederacy

19
Blockade
  • Caused serious shortages of goods and weapons in
    the South

20
Copperheads
  • Favored negotiation for peace with the Confederacy
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