The ________ of 1862 permitted any citizen or prospective citizen to claim 160 acres of public land and to purchase it for a small fee after living on it for five years.
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Ulysses S Grant
In the spring of 1863, ________ was driving at Vicksburg, Mississippi, one of the Confederacys two remaining strongholds on the southern Mississippi River.
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northern Virginia
The Union and the Confederacy fought their first major battle of the war in ________.