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| 1. Emancipation Proclamation |
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| Lincoln's announcement that all slaves in the C.S.A. would be freed as of 1 January 1863 in order to weaken Southern military strength. |
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| 2. 54th Massachusetts Regiment |
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| The most famous African-American regiment in the U.S. Army which proved its bravery during the failed attack on Fort Wagner in July 1863. |
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| The drafting of men into the military by the government to fight in a war. |
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| Massive three-day battle in southern Pennsylvania between Lee and Meade from 1-3 July 1863 which ended with the Confederate's disastrous Pickett's Charge. The second Confederate invasion of the North was repulsed. |
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| Talented Union general who captured Vicksburg, was made commander of all Union armies, and ultimately forced the surrender of Lee's army ending the Civil War. |
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| Talented Confederate general who was responsible for ordering Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg, fought a series of battles against Grant in Virginia, and ultimately surrendered his army to Grant at Appomattox. |
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| Grant captured the last remaining Confederate fort on the Mississippi River on 4 July 1863 fulfilling that part of the Anaconda Plan. |
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| 8. William Tecumseh Sherman |
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| Union General who was ordered by Grant to destroy Georgia. He captured a number of southern cities including Atlanta, Savannah, Columbia, and Raleigh. |
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| 9. Appomattox Court House |
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| The small Virginia town where Lee surrendered to Grant on 9 April 1865 ending the Civil War. |
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| Passed by Congress in January 1865, this amendment banned slavery in the U.S. |
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