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Match the letters to the numbers please. Put it down below the comments and please do not put any links please. This is for an exam and i need help. Thank you

Match the letters to the numbers please. Put it down below the comments and please-example-1

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1. Writ of Habeas Corpus

President Abraham Lincoln suspended this and drew massive criticism for it.

2. Emancipation Proclamation

This was issued by President Lincoln in 1863 and freed the enslaved people in the South. It made the war about slavery thereby denying the South support from Europeans.

3. Second Inaugural Address

Abraham Lincoln said it was time to heal and bind the Nation's wounds.

4. Gettysburg Address

Her President Lincoln reinforced the reason for fighting the war and that the soldiers who had died would not die in vain.

5. Robert E. Lee

Commander of the Confederate troops.

6. Thomas ''Stonewall'' Jackson

Became Gen. Robert E. Lee's right hand man after he won a great victory against the Union by holding his troops steady.

7. Jefferson Davis

President of the Confederate States of America

8. Ulysses S. Grant

Rose through the ranks to become the Commanding (and winning) General of all U.S. troops during Civil War. Eventually became President as well.

9. Fort Sumter

The Confederates bombed this fort thinking that it would make the Union sue for peace. It instead started the Civil War.

10. William Tecumseh Sherman

His match to the sea from Atlanta to Savannah wrecked such heavy damage on the South that they lost morale to fight. It was the first instance of the modern warfare tactic of Total War.

11. Battle of Atlanta

Atlanta was devastated in this battle.

12. Battle of Vicksburg

With this battle, the Union split the Confederacy in half by winning control of the Mississippi.

13. Battle of Gettysburg

The Union victory here was a turning point and began the general defeat of the Confederacy as General Meade kicked General Lee out of the war and back into Confederate territory.

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