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Formal withdrawal of states or regions from a nation|The southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861.|the first major battle in the American Civil War to take place on Northern soil. It was the bloodiest single-day battle in American history, with almost 23,000 casualties. After this "win" for the North, Lincoln announced the Emancipation Proclamation|military draft which required all young men to be ready for military or other service.|July 1-3, 1863, turning point in war, Union victory, most deadly battle in the war|Grant's best fought campaign, this siege ended in the seizure of the Mississippi River by the Union. It was a decisive battle in the American Civil War (1863).|The reorganization and rebuilding of the former Confederate states after the Civil War.|White Southerner supporting Reconstruction policies after the Civil War usually for self-interest|Uncomplimentary nick-name for a northerner who went to the South after the Civil War.|System in which a farmer tended a portion of a planter's land in return for a share of the crop