Do you know what dixie means, or what secession is? You can find out the meaning of terms associated with the Civil War in this American Civil War glossary.
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Although it ended more than a century ago, the scars of the Civil War are still with Americans today. Think you know more than the average Billy Yank or Johnny Reb about the blood and politics behind the war? Find out by taking our Civil War quiz.
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The donkey and the elephant are widely recognized symbols of the U.S. Democratic and Republican Parties. But what do animals have to do with politics, and how do cartoons fit in?
See more »Alabama Claims, claims entered against Great Britain by the United States for destruction of shipping by Confederate cruisers built or armed in Britain during the Civil War.
See more »Andersonville Prison, a Confederate military prison for captured Union Army soldiers, located at Andersonville, Georgia.
See more »Booth, the name of a family of actors. Two of the Booths were among the most brilliant actors of the 19th century.
See more »Bushwackers, a term applied during the Civil War to guerrilla fighters of the Confederate army.
See more »Confederate States of America, often called The Confederacy, the 11 Southern states that declared their secession from the Union at the beginning of the Civil War.
See more »Dixie, a word used to designate the South in the United States. Among the theories as to its origin are: (1) It somehow bears a reference to Dixon of Mason and Dixon's Line.
See more »Draft Riots, in New York City, the most violent of a series of outbreaks against the Conscription Act of 1863 during the Civil War.
See more »Gettysburg Address, a speech delivered by Abraham Lincoln on November 19, 1863, at the dedication of Gettysburg National Cemetery near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
See more »Grand Army of the Republic (GAR), an organization formed by Union veterans of the Civil War.
See more »Hampton Roads Conference, February 3, 1865, a four-hour meeting between Northern and Southern leaders in an attempt to end the American Civil War.
See more »The Gettysburg Address was only about 300 words long -- Lincoln delivered it in about two minutes. But somehow, it changed the way we view our government, our country and our society.
See more »Calhoun, John C. (Caldwell) (1782 - 1850), a United States statesman and orator. He was Vice President under John Quincy Adams (1825 - 29) and Andrew Jackson (1829 - 32).
See more »Libby Prison, a Confederate prison at Richmond, Virginia, where captured Union officers were held during the Civil War.
See more »Walker, Mary Edwards (1832 - 1919), a United States physician and women's rights crusader.
See more »Mason and Dixon's Line, or Mason-Dixon Line, in United States history, the symbolic dividing line between the North and the South.
See more »Nullification, in United States history, the doctrine that a state has the right to declare a federal law null and void and to suspend its operation within the state's jurisdiction.
See more »Reconstruction, in United States history, the political reorganization of the Southern states after the Civil War.
See more »Mudd, Samuel Alexander (1833 - 1883), the physician who set the broken leg of John Wilkes Booth and was convicted as a conspirator in the assassination of President Lincoln.
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