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CIVAL WAR ERA
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Charles Sumner
Charles Sumner was an American politician and senator from Massachusetts -
kansas Nebraska Act
allowing settlers in those territories to determine through Popular Sovereignty whether they would allow slavery within each territory -
Conscription(cival war)
the compulsory enlistment of people in some sort of national service, most often military service -
Jefferson Davis
leader of the Confederacy during the American Civil War, serving as President of the Confederate States -
souther Secession
seceed to leave -
Antietam
Battle of Antietam took place in Maryland. -
stonewall jackson
one of the best-known Confederate commanders -
emancipation Proclamation
proclaimed all slaves in Confederate territory to be forever free; -
Appomattox court house
It is located in the middle of the state -
fourteenth Amendment
Its Due Process Clause prohibits state and local governments from depriving persons of life, liberty, or property without certain steps being taken to ensure fairness. -
Ulysses S. Grant
8th President of the United States following his highly successful role as a war general in the second half of the Civil War -
Clara Barton
founder of the American Red Cross
