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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

Abolitionist
A PERSON WHO BELIEVED IN THE ABOLISHMENT OR ABOLITION OF NEGRO SLAVERY

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Artillery
Large,powerful weapons such as cannon or motars.

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Assassination
The murder of a prominent person such as Abe Lincoln

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Battery
A unit of four or six cannons, or a fortified position on which they are placed.

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Battle
Large scale combat between two armed forces (skirmishes and engagements are smaller scaled and briefer.

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Blockade
The closing off, using naval forces, of a city or other area to traffic and communication.

Border state
Slave owning states that did not secede from the Union Delaware, Kentucky, and Missouri

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CARTRIDGE BOX

A LEATHER BOX IN WHICH THE SOLDIER CARRIED HIS ROUNDS OR BULLETS
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CASUALTY

A PERSON KILLED, WOUNDED, CAPTURED, OR MISSING DURING WAR.
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CAVALRY

SOLDIERS MOUNTED ON HORSEBACK FIGHTING AS A UNIT
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