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Copperhead democrants were also known as peace democrants.
Opposed the American Civil War and wanted an immediate peace settlement with the Confederates. -
The plan called for a naval blockade of the Confederate littoral, a thrust down the Mississippi, and the strangulation of the South by Union land and naval forces.
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Contrabands were slaves who escaped to Union lines during the Civil War. Slaves who escaped to Union lines were often returned to their masters.
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It was a legislation enacted by the 37th United States Congress during the American Civil War . This allowed African-Americans to participate as war laborers and soldiers for the first time since the Militia Act of 1792
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It was one of the most significant and enduring events in the westward expansion of the United States. It granted 160 acres of free land to claimants.
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Allowed for the creation of land-grant colleges in U.S. states using the proceeds of federal land sales. The Morrill Act of 1862 was enacted during the American Civil War
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Battle of Antietam was the bloodiest day in American history. The Union victory at Antietam resulted in President Abraham Lincoln issuing his Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation on September 22, 1862.
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The proclamation declared that all persons held as slaves within the rebellious states shall be free.Abraham Lincoln also had issued the emancipation proclamation
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The battle of Vicksburg was one of the victories of the Union. It gave control of the Mississippi River to the Union.
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The battle of gettysburg was fro july1, 1863 to july 3,1863.It is considered the most important engagement of the American Civil War
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A movement of the Union army troops of General William Tecumseh Sherman from Atlanta to Georgia seacoast with the object of destroying Confederate supplies. The march began after Sherman captured, evacuated, and burned Atlanta in the fall of 1864.
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Abraham Lincoln defeated Democrat George B.It happend in the mids of the Civil War
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Constitution that forbids slavery and forced labor except, as regards the latter, as punishment for crime. It was passed in january 31,1865
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Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his Army of Northern Virginia to Union General Ulysses S. It was another war during the Civil War
