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  1. 2. went to war against the United States to protect slavery
  2. 4. ended the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia's first invasion
  3. 6. helped ensure the final defeat of slavery in the United States by aiding the Union during the American Civil War
  4. 12. The Reconstruction Era lasted from the end of the Civil War in 1865 to 1877
  5. 13. bring the Civil War to a swift end
  6. 14. precipitating the capitulation of other Confederate forces
  7. 15. in the Mexican War
Down
  1. 1. reunite the country following the American Civil War
  2. 3. declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free
  3. 5. was the 16th president
  4. 7. weakened the Confederacy by splitting it in half
  5. 8. Confederate forces occupied Fort Sumter and used it to marshal a defense of Charleston Harbor
  6. 9. lead the Union Armies to victory
  7. 10. southern states back into the Union and preserve the nations
  8. 11. the withdrawal of 11 slave states