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  1. 4. Fought July 1–3, 1863, in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, by Union and Confederate forces during the American Civil War
  2. 8. A decisive Union victory during the American Civil War that divided the Confederacy and cemented the reputation of Union General Ulysses S. Grant.
  3. 9. Declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."
  4. 11. A decisive engagement that halted the Confederate invasion of Maryland
  5. 12. one of the largest and deadliest battles of the Civil War.
  6. 13. _____ is the political policy of promoting or protecting the interests of "native-born" or established inhabitants over those of immigrants, including the support of anti-immigration and immigration-restriction measures.
  7. 14. Military strategy proposed by Union General Winfield Scott early in the American Civil War.
  8. 15. The First Battle of Bull Run, called the Battle of First Manassas by Confederate forces, was the first major battle of the American Civil War.
  9. 19. The purpose of this March to the Sea was to frighten Georgia's civilian population into abandoning the Confederate cause.
  10. 20. Yeoman perform administrative and clerical work. They receive visitors, answer telephone calls and sort incoming mail.
  11. 22. The failed attempt by American and French forces to retake the port city from its British occupiers
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  1. 1. The attack on Fort Sumter marked the official beginning of the American Civil War
  2. 2. Laws passed at different periods in the southern United States to enforce racial segregation and curtail the power of Black voters
  3. 3. The resistance to enslavement through escape and flight, through the end of the Civil War
  4. 5. Hebrew word meaning "place of peace
  5. 6. The Reconstruction Era lasted from the end of the Civil War in 1865 to 1877.
  6. 7. The largest auction of enslaved people in U.S. history
  7. 10. Figures prominently in the Union's conquest of the Confederacy in the final year of the Civil War and in Abraham Lincoln's re-election to the US presidency.
  8. 16. Village in central Virginia where the Confederate army under Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant's Union forces on April 9, 1865, effectively ending the American Civil War.
  9. 17. Once the fleeing slaves crossed Union army lines, they were classified as property.
  10. 18. a native or inhabitant of Kansas
  11. 21. 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.