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Robert E Lee's Role In The Civil War
1. Robert E. Lee fought in the Mexican-American War and was the confederate leader in the Civil War.
2. Thomas “Stonewell” Jackson was a confederate general who stopped the Union at Bull Run.
3. George B. McClellan was a general in the Civil War and formed the Peninsula Campaign.
4. Elizabeth Blackwell was the first women doctor who helped with the U.S Sanitary Commission.
5. Ulysses S. Grant was the Union general and the 18th president.
6. Copperheads were northern democrats who agreed with the south.
7. Emancipation Proclamation was the document made by Lincoln freeing slaves.
8. Total war means that there are no restrictions and everything is fair.
9. War of attrition means to fight until the other side runs out of soldiers, supplies, or their will to keep going on.
10. William Tecumseh Sherman was a
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Most women helped with the war effort by helping in the war, becoming nurses and doctors and also being spies.
3. The North’s victory at the Battle of Antietam helped Lincoln with his plan on freeing slaves.
4. Robert E. Lee and his men were allowed to keep their houses and their mules or horses.

1. The North was able to use geography to stop the flow of supplies to the south and they had escaped slaves who knew the South’s geography better than anyone else.

2. The north had women working in factories so they had supplies, but the South’s supplies were blocked by the south and they ran into starvation from lack of money.

3. The draft made people feel less free and that their rights as citizens were being violated.

1. In 1861 there was the fall of Fort Sumter and The Battle of Bull Run. In 1862 there was The Battle of Shiloh, the capturing of New Orleans, the draft, and the Victory of Antietam. In 1863 there was the formation of West Virginia, the Union draft, the South’s victory at Chancellorsville, and battle of Gettysburg. In 1864 there was Grant became general in chief and the fall of Atlanta. In 1865 there was the terms of surrender after the union

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