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  1. 3. June 27, more than fifty cannons roared to life on the Army of the Tennessee front.
  2. 4. American forces in the region, numbering between 5,000 and 7,000 men, were based in Charleston, South Carolina, under the command of General Benjamin Lincoln.
  3. 5. this batttle marked the turning point of the Civil War
  4. 7. largest slave auction ever on American soil.
  5. 10. with nearly 200,000 combatants—the greatest number of any Civil War engagement
  6. 11. Fort Sumter is located in the middle of Charleston Harbor
  7. 14. Sherman's March to the Sea was a military campaign of the American Civil War conducted through Georgia from November 15 until December 21, 1864
  8. 15. military strategy proposed by Union General Winfield Scott early in the American Civil War
  9. 17. Cheers rang out in the streets of Washington on July 16, 1861 as Gen
  10. 18. a man holding and cultivating a small landed estate; a freeholder.
  11. 21. restricted black people's right to own property, conduct business, buy and lease land, and move freely through public spaces
  12. 22. May 18 - Jul 4, 1863. Vicksburg's strategic location on the Mississippi River made it a critical win for both the Union and the Confederac
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  1. 1. declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states are, and henceforward shall be free.
  2. 2. The Union victory in the largest battle of the Atlanta Campaign led to the capture of that critical Confederate city and opened the door for Major gen
  3. 6. the resistance to enslavement through escape and flight, through the end of the Civil War
  4. 8. was a term commonly used in the US military during the American Civil War to describe a new status
  5. 9. is the political policy of promoting or protecting the interests of "native-born" or established inhabitants over those of immigrants,
  6. 12. the historic period in which the United States grappled with the question of how to integrate millions of newly freed African Americans into social, political, and labor systems,
  7. 13. Antietam, the deadliest one-day battle in American military history, showed that the Union could stand against the Confederate army in the Eastern theater.
  8. 16. Plunderers and militant abolitionists
  9. 19. historical place that was home to many civil war heros
  10. 20. The Battle of Shiloh, also known as the Battle of Pittsburg Landing, allowed Union troops to penetrate the Confederate interior.