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the first women's rights convention in the United States, held in Seneca Falls, New York in July 1848

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Seneca Falls Convention

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Document that declared that slaves in rebelling states (Confederacy) were freed. Did not free slaves in Union states or border states.

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Emancipation Proclamation

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Location of the surrender of the Confederacy; ended the American Civil War in 1865.

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Appomattox Courthouse

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Union Civil War campaign where soldiers, led by General Sherman, pillaging and burning Confederate cities from Atlanta to Savannah, GA

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Sherman's March to the Sea

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A Union military fort that the Confederacy attempted to take over, beginning the Civil War

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Fort Sumter

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the idea that a region of a country is more important than the country as a whole

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Sectionalism

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the first African American regiment in the United States to serve in the Civil War

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54th Massachusetts

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During the Civil War, the Union's plan to blockade the South, cut the south at the Mississippi, and capture their capital.

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Anaconda Plan