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- 3. A new type of ship that was heavily armored with iron.
- 6. In the ____________ _____ ______________, the Union army gained greater control of the Mississippi River valley.
- 7. Wedged between the North and the South were the key _____________________ of Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri—slave states that did not join the Confederacy.
- 11. Escaped slaves that had the right to join the Union army in South Carolina.
- 14. This was a key battle that finally turned the tide against the Confederates.
- 16. At the Battle of Manassas/Bull Run, one unit, commanded by ___________________ ________________ was not driven back by Confederates.
- 17. George Pickett led 15,000 men who charged for one mile up toward Cemetery Ridge, causing many casualties.
- 18. In June 1862, the Confederate army in Virginia came under the command of General _______________ ___ ______.
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- 1. In August 1862, the three-day battle called the _____________ ___________ ____ ________ _______, or the Second Battle of Manassas started.
- 2. A series of battles designed to capture the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia.
- 4. This Admiral was responsible for leading key attacks on the southern ports of Vicksburg and New Orleans.
- 5. Abraham Lincoln wrote the ___________________ _____________________, which ordered the freedom of Confederate slaves.
- 8. This was the first major battle of the Civil War and a Confederate
- 9. This was the bloodiest single-day battle of the Civil War—and of U.S. history.
- 10. General Grant’s troops began the _________ ____ _________________ in mid-May 1863, cutting off the city and shelling it repeatedly.
- 12. A federal outpost in Charleston, South Carolina, that was attacked by Confederate troops, beginning the Civil War.
- 13. Lincoln fumed over the cautious, hesitant General McClellan, so he replaced him with ___________ ___ __________.
- 15. The idea that Great Britain would support the Confederacy because it needed the South’s raw cotton to supply its booming textile industry.