Chapter 14 - The Civil War

Homestead Act

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.

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.

northern Virginia

The Union and the Confederacy fought their first major battle of the war in ________.