Civil War

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  1. 5. a Civil War battle in Tennessee in which the Union army gained greater control over the Mississippi River valley
  2. 6. a Union victory in the Civil War that marked the bloodiest single-day battle in U.S. military history
  3. 8. 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
  4. 9. Eighteenth president of the United States, he received a field promotion to lieutenant general in charge of all Union forces after leading a successful campaign in the West. He accepted General Lee’s surrender of Confederate forces at Appomattox Courthouse, ending the Civil War.
  5. 12. Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri; slave states that lay between the North and the South and did not join the Confederacy during the Civil War
  6. 13. the first major battle of the Civil War, resulting in a Confederate victory; showed that the Civil War would not be won easil
  7. 14. a series of Civil War battles in which Confederate army successes forced the Union army to retreat from Richmond, Virginia, the Confederate capital
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  1. 1. American general, he served as commander in the Mexican War and used a two-part strategy against the South in the Civil War; he wanted to destroy the South’s economy with a naval blockade and gain control of the Mississippi River.
  2. 2. a Civil War battle in which the Confederate army forced most of the Union army out of Virginia
  3. 3. American army general put in charge of Union troops and later removed by Lincoln for failure to press Lee’s Confederate troops in Richmond
  4. 4. American Confederate general, he led the Shenandoah Valley campaign and fought with Lee in the Seven Days’ Battles and the First and Second Battles of Bull Run.
  5. 7. a federal outpost in Charleston, South Carolina, that was attacked by the Confederates in April 1861, sparking the Civil War
  6. 10. American soldier, he refused Lincoln’s offer to head the Union army and agreed to lead Confederate forces. He successfully led several major battles until his defeat at Gettysburg, and he surrendered to the Union’s commander General Grant at Appomattox Courthouse.
  7. 11. a warship that is heavily armored with iron