The American Civil War

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• What immediate event is generally considered the beginning of the American Civil War?
• Which constitutional principle did Confederate leaders most commonly invoke to justify secession?
• What was the main military purpose of the Union's Anaconda Plan?
• Why was the Battle of Gettysburg strategically important to the Union?
• The first major battle of the Civil War took place at [____] in July 1861.
• The Emancipation Proclamation, issued by Abraham Lincoln, declared enslaved people in the rebelling states to be [____].
• The Union victory at [____] in July 1863 gave the Union control of a crucial section of the Mississippi River.
• The Confederate army surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant at [____] in April 1865.