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  1. 5. a pivotal Union victory in the Civil War's Western Theater
  2. 8. a defining conflict between the Northern Union states and the Southern Confederate states, largely caused by long-standing disputes over slavery and states' rights.
  3. 10. slave-holding states that did not secede from the Union
  4. 14. a series of intense,, consecutive battles near Richmond, Virginia
  5. 15. a major American Civil War engagement in Pennsylvania where Union forces defeated Confederate General Robert E. Lee, halting his northern invasion
  6. 17. the formal, voluntary withdrawal of 11 Southern states from the United States (the Union) to form the Confederate States of America
  7. 18. the opening, inconclusive engagement of Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant’s 1864 Overland Campaign in the American Civil War
  8. 19. United States Military Academy graduate and career officer who became a Confederate major general during the American Civil War
  9. 20. a premier Union Major General in the American Civil War
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  1. 1. a decisive 47-day Union victory in the American Civil War,
  2. 2. commanding the Army of Northern Virginia from 1862 until his surrender in 1865
  3. 3. U.S. states where slavery was legally prohibited, abolished, or in the process of elimination
  4. 4. a disastrous Confederate infantry assault on July 3, 1863, during the Battle of Gettysburg
  5. 6. the site of the surrender of Confederate General Robert E. Lee to Union General Ulysses S. Grant on April 9, 1865
  6. 7. the U.S. states where slavery and the sale of enslaved people were legally permitted and constitutionally protected
  7. 9. the south. an unrecognized breakaway republic of 11 Southern U.S. states that seceded between 1860 and 1861, triggering the American Civil War (1861–1865)
  8. 11. the complete mobilization of resources, population, and industry to destroy the enemy’s ability and will to resist
  9. 12. a major Union Army general during the American Civil War
  10. 13. a person who advocated for the immediate end of slavery,
  11. 16. the north. fought the civil war to preserve the United States against seceding Southern states, eventually adopting the abolition of slavery as a central goal