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- 3. on June 27, 1864, 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 Rebel
- 4. was fought on July 22, 1864, just southeast of Atlanta, Georgia. Union forces commanded by William T. Sherman, wanting to neutralize the important rail and supply hub, defeated Confederate forces defending the city under John B. Hood
- 7. brought much anguish to the enslaved. Families, who had been together for all of their lives on Butler's Island or Hampton, were torn apart and dispersed;
- 10. granted all males the ability to vote by prohibiting voter discrimination based on race, color, or previous condition .
- 13. an attendant or officer in a royal or noble household. b. : a person attending or assisting another : retainer.
- 14. Vicksburg's strategic location on the Mississippi River made it a critical win for both the Union and the Confederacy. The Confederate surrender there ensured Union control of the Mississippi River and cleaved the South in two
- 15. It was a network of people, both whites and free Blacks, who worked together to help runaways from slaveholding states travel to states in the North and to the country of Canada, where slavery was illegal.
- 16. They got drunk, insulted the local citizenry, court-martialed, and then summarily executed nine citizens. The jayhawkers returned to Kansas with everything they could carry and followed by hundreds of emancipated slaves.
- 20. military strategy proposed by Union General Winfield Scott early in the American Civil War.
- 22. ended the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia's first invasion into the North and led Abraham Lincoln to issue the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation.
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- 1. In this battle, the British three men and the other ten were wounded while the Patriots lost eighty-three men and four hundred and eighty-three were captured.
- 2. 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, pillaging the countryside and destroying both military outposts and civilian properties.
- 5. restricted black people's right to own property, conduct business, buy and lease land, and move freely through public spaces.
- 6. declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."
- 8. The charge was repulsed by Union rifle and artillery fire, at great loss to the Confederate army. Lee led his army on a torturous retreat back to Virginia.
- 9. was a crushing defeat for the Union, whose soldiers fought courageously and well but fell victim to mismanagement by their generals, including confused orders from Burnside to Franklin.
- 11. once the fleeing slaves crossed Union army lines, they were classified as property
- 12. cultural landscape marks the beginning of the country's transition to peace and reunification following four years of Civil War.
- 17. The Battle of Shiloh, also known as the Battle of Pittsburg Landing, was a major battle in the American Civil War fought on April 6–7, 1862
- 18. the policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants
- 19. Gen. Robert E. Lee's Confederate army defeated Union forces under Maj. Gen. John Pope, hastening the Federals' retreat back toward their defenses in Washington and allowing Lee to lead his army across the Potomac River into the North
- 21. The attack on Fort Sumter marked the official beginning of the American Civil War—a war that lasted four years, cost the lives of more than 620,000 Americans, and freed 3.9 million enslaved people from bondage.