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  1. 3. Sumter - a sea fort built on an artificial island near Charleston, South Carolina to defend the region from a naval invasion
  2. 4. - non-slaveholding, small landowning, family farmers
  3. 5. Plan - military strategy proposed by Union General Winfield Scott early in the American Civil War
  4. 7. - The Union troops suffered 2,896 casualties against the Confederates' 1,897
  5. 9. - the largest amphibious assault in American military history at the time
  6. 10. Time Auction - the largest auction of enslaved people in U.S. history
  7. 11. of Kennesaw - The battle was a victory for Johnston, who lost 1,000 troops to Sherman's 3,000
  8. 15. Railroad - trail to freedom
  9. 18. - the political policy of promoting the interests of native inhabitants against those of immigrants, including by supporting immigration-restriction measures
  10. 19. - native or inhabitant of Kansas
  11. 20. - often described as the war's turning point
  12. 22. - two-day conflict was at that point the bloodiest battle in American history, with more than 23,000 dead and wounded.
Down
  1. 1. of War - This term meant that once the fleeing slaves crossed Union army lines, they were classified as property
  2. 2. Proclamation - declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free.
  3. 6. - the first opposed river crossing in American military history
  4. 8. March to the Sea - an American Civil War campaign lasting from November 15 to December 21, 1864
  5. 12. - a village in central Virginia where the Confederate army under Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S
  6. 13. - Defending Savannah was a force of more than 3,000 men under the command of General Augustine Prevost.
  7. 14. - ended the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia's first invasion into the North and led Abraham Lincoln to issue the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation.
  8. 16. - 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
  9. 17. - The battle had special significance for Abraham Lincoln, who was seeking a second term as U.S. president.
  10. 21. Codes - laws passed at different periods in the southern United States to enforce racial segregation and curtail the power of Black voters