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- made a debut on 1807 it transported passengers throughout the Hudson River, a steamboat
- Southerner and former democrat nominated to be Lincoln's vice president in election of 1864
- Northern democrats who supported states rights and peace with the confederacy
- Secretary of State defeated by Lincoln for the Republican nomination helped keep France and Great Britain out of the war
- Faction of Lincoln's Republican Party that wanted to make the war more about slavery
- Assassin who murdered Lincoln jumped from thwarted balcony
- Invented by Sherman used unconstitutional methods to defeat the south but didn't target civilians
- Grants pick to be general in the west targeted Atlanta for destruction on his way to savannah
- Town in virgina where Lee finally surrendered to grant in home of Wilmer McLean
- Secretary of war, democrat who make bipartisan war effort
- Thomas Jackson earned his name at first battle of bull run for repelling the union advance
- Issued by Lincoln on January 1st 1863 freed slaves in area of confederate control
- Final leader of the grand army of the republic, became famous for his unconstitutional surrender strategy at Vicksburg
- Leader of the Confederate Army used tactical prowess to overcome a severe disadvantage in troop numbers
- Leadership as president of the union navigated stormy seas during the civil war and reunified the country
- Amendment permanently banned slavery in the US
- Most famous battle of war, over 50000 dies fighting between July 1-3 1863
- Commonly described as the ends Justify the means
- President James K. Polk would have been most likely to upset Northerners by his
- All of the following intellectual traditions contributed to the ideas of the Founding Fathers EXCEPT the