Civil War Review Board

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  1. 8. ended the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia's first invasion into the North and led Abraham Lincoln to issue the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation
  2. 9. bands of men that were willing to fight, kill, and rob for a variety of motives that included defense against pro-slavery
  3. 10. declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."
  4. 12. an American Civil War campaign lasting from November 15 to December 21, 1864, in which Union Major General William Tecumseh Sherman led troops through the Confederate state of Georgia
  5. 15. The battle involved the largest number of casualties of the entire war and is often described as the war's turning point
  6. 17. the place where two major Civil War battles were fought
  7. 18. Confederate General Robert E Lee surrendered to Union General Ulysses S Grant to effectively end the American Civil War
  8. 19. the fate of Atlanta was sealed when Sherman's troops cut the Macon and Western line. Union soldiers entered the city on September 2, thus concluding the Atlanta campaign.
  9. 21. As part of that effort, a British army under Lieutenant Colonel Archibald Campbell captured the city of Savannah, Georgia on December 29, 1778.
  10. 22. 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
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  1. 1. the resistance to enslavement through escape and flight, through the end of the Civil War
  2. 2. As Charleston blazed a path towards secession to preserve slavery, construction on a new fort
  3. 3. once the fleeing slaves crossed Union army lines, they were classified as property
  4. 4. a man holding and cultivating a small landed estate; a freeholder.
  5. 5. laws passed at different periods in the southern United States to enforce racial segregation and curtail the power of Black voters
  6. 6. one of the largest and deadliest of the Civil War. It featured the first opposed river crossing in American military history
  7. 7. the bloodiest battle fought during the American Civil War up to that point in the conflict
  8. 11. military strategy proposed by Union General Winfield Scott early in the American Civil War
  9. 13. Families, who had been together for all of their lives on Butler's Island or Hampton, were torn apart and dispersed; many of them never saw each other again
  10. 14. Confederate troops attack a Union supply depot and are met by untested United States Colored Troops
  11. 16. was an important battle of the Atlanta campaign by Union General William Sherman to launch a full-scale frontal assault on the entrenched position of General Joseph Johnston's Rebels
  12. 20. the policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants.