American Civil War

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  1. 2. Civil War battle in TN in which the Union army gained greater control over the Mississippi river valley
  2. 3. Constitutional protection against unlawful imprisonment
  3. 5. Order announced by president Abraham Lincoln in 1862 that freed slaves in areas rebelling against the Union; took effect January 1, 1863
  4. 8. Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri; slave states that lay between the north and south and did not join the confederacy
  5. 11. Confederate efforts to use the importance of southern cotton to Britain's textile industry to persuade the British to support the confederacy in the civil war
  6. 12. Northern Democrats who opposed abolition and sympathized with the south in the civil war
  7. 16. Union victory at Gettysburg Pennsylvania, during the civil war that turned the tide against the confederates; resulted in the loss of 50,000 soldiers
  8. 18. Warships heavily armored with iron
  9. 20. First major battle of the civil war, resulting in a confederate victory in Virginia; showed that the civil war would not be won easily
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  1. 1. Escaped or captured slaves taken in by the union army during the Civil War
  2. 4. Series of civil war battles in which the confederate army successfully forced the union army to retreat from southeastern Virginia
  3. 6. Failed Confederate attack led by General George Pickett at the battle of Gettysburg
  4. 7. Civil war battle in which the confederate army defeated another union advance on Richmond Virginia
  5. 9. Speech given by Abraham Lincoln in which he praised Union soldier's bravery and renewed his commitment to winning the civil war
  6. 10. Federal outpost in Charleston, South Carolina, that was attacked by confederates in April 1861, sparking the Civil War
  7. 13. Union army's six-week blockade of Vicksburg led the city to surrender during the Civil War
  8. 14. African American Civil War regiment that helped capture Fort Wagner in South Carolina
  9. 15. Union victory in Maryland during the civil war marked the bloodiest single-day victory in U.S. military history
  10. 17. Type of war in which an army destroys its opponent's ability to fight by attacking civilian, economic, and military targets
  11. 19. Civil war battle in northwestern Arkansas in which the union army defeated pro-confederate Missourians