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  1. 3. __________, PA was the site of the most famous battle of the Civil War, which was fought from July 1-3 1963. In winning the battle, the Union stopped the South's last northern invasion and set the stage for the eventual end of the war.
  2. 4. Ulysses S. __________ was the final General of the Union Army. He won the war in 1865 and, after the end of the war, he became the 18th President of the United States.
  3. 7. The ____________ is a racist, primarily Southern interpretation of the Civil War, in which the Confederacy is framed as heroic and analysis of the war is shifted to emphasize states' rights and independence rather than slavery.
  4. 9. Robert E. _________ was the General and Commander of the Confederate Army during the Civil War.
  5. 11. The name for the Northern states during the war.
  6. 12. The policy of forced separation of black and white Americans, which lasted from 1865 until the passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1964.
  7. 14. The period between 1865-1877 in which the United States tried to rebuild after the Civil War.
  8. 16. Thomas ___________ Jackson was one of the best known Southern generals of the Civil War and was known for his aggressive tactics and willingness to sacrifice his troops for victory. He was famously killed when he was accidentally shot by one of his men during 1863.
  9. 17. To officially withdraw from membership in a federation or union.
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  1. 1. Abraham __________ was the 16th President of the United States, who served during the Civil War and was assassinated in April 1865.
  2. 2. ________ Davis was the President of the Confederacy during the Civil War.
  3. 5. ______________ No. 143 was a May 22, 1863 order that admitted Black Americans into the Union Army. The Army created regiments down as United States Colored Troops (USCT), which were often filled by both Northern citizens and escaped Southern slaves.
  4. 6. _________ Laws were Reconstruction era state and local laws that enforced the policy of segregation of black and white Americans.
  5. 8. The name for the Southern states during the war.
  6. 10. The ________ Proclamation was a document issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863. The document officially freed all slaves in southern states, but slavery would not actually end until after the war with the passage of the 13th Amendment.
  7. 13. John Wilkes ___________ was a stage actor and Southern sympathizer who assassinated Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington, DC on April 15, 1865.
  8. 15. The United States ________ was a 19th century war between the Northern and Southern states fought over the future of slavery. The war lasted from 1861 until 1865.