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  1. 3. Once the fleeing slaves crossed Union army lines, they were classified as property
  2. 5. The failed attempt by American and French forces to retake the port city from its British occupiers.
  3. 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
  4. 12. 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.
  5. 13. A decisive engagement that halted the Confederate invasion of Maryland
  6. 15. A native or inhabitant of Kansas
  7. 16. The largest auction of enslaved people in U.S. history
  8. 18. The political policy of promoting the interests of native inhabitants against those of immigrants, including by supporting immigration-restriction measures.
  9. 19. The Navy yeomen were responsible for keeping the storerooms for the ship's gunners, carpenters and boatswains
  10. 20. The resistance to enslavement through escape and flight, through the end of the Civil War
  11. 21. Named for Revolutionary War general and South Carolina native Thomas Sumter,
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  1. 1. To frighten Georgia's civilian population into abandoning the Confederate cause
  2. 2. One of the largest and deadliest battles of the Civil War
  3. 4. Military strategy proposed by Union General Winfield Scott early in the American Civil War
  4. 6. The first land battle of the Civil War was fought on July 21, 1861, just 30 miles from Washington
  5. 7. Hebrew word meaning "place of peace"
  6. 8. President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war.
  7. 9. Laws passed at different periods in the southern United States to enforce racial segregation and curtail the power of Black voters.
  8. 11. A decisive Union victory during the American Civil War that divided the Confederacy and cemented the reputation of Union General Ulysses S. Grant.
  9. 14. A 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
  10. 17. Fought July 1–3, 1863, in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, by Union and Confederate forces during the American Civil War.