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- The city of Vicksburg was located on the east bank of the Mississippi River.
- The Battle of Gettysburg proved to be the critical turning point of the war.
- The most infamous prison in the South, _______ in southwest Georgia, was an open camp with no shade or shelter for its huge population.
- Grant ordered 1,700 troops on a cavalry raid through Kentucky in order to distract the Confederates defending Vicksburg.
- Although Southern women were encouraged to stay at home and support the troops by making bandages and other supplies, many such as Kate ____ braved the horrors of the battlefield to nurse the wounded.
- The North experienced an ____ boom because of the war.
- The Second Battle of Bull Run left the Confederate troops only 20 miles from Washington, D.C.
- Women filled labor shortages in various industries, particularly in
- The Battle of Antietam was the bloodiest one-day battle in the Civil War and in American History.
- The First Battle of Bull Run was a route of Union Forces.
- The Emancipation Proclamation decreed freedom for enslaved persons in all states where they were held.
- The Civil War produced huge numbers of casualties, and doctors struggled to tend to the wounded because they had little understanding of infectious ____
- The Emancipation Proclamation, by its very existence, transformed the conflict over preserving the Union into a war of liberation.
- The wearing down of one side in a conflict by the other through exhaustion of soldiers and resources is called
- At the start of the war, the Union Navy began a ___ of the Confederate coastline.
- The Civil War was the first war that featured the use of ____ ships
- Jefferson Davis's strategy was to wage a what war of attrition, forcing the Union to spend its resources until it became tired of the war and agree to negotiate.
- The what was an important form of military transportation during the Civil War.
- Which of the following was the first major women's rights event in the United States?
- How did the first legislatures in former Confederate states attempt to retain control over freedmen and women?