The American Civil War. Tasks:
I. Fill the gaps with the missing words and complete the sentences. - Заполнить пропуски словами из текста в учебнике. (Записать: 1- Union)
II. Put the parts of the text in the correct order. - Распределить части текста в правильном порядке (Записать цифры через запятую)

1. In February 1861 eleven Southern states formed their own union, which was called … (1), but Abraham Lincoln wouldn't let them split up the country. And so … (2) began.
2. The North (their army was called the Union Army) was actually more … (3) than the South. But the Confederacy had one big advantage: they didn't have to Invade the North, they just had to … (4) their own land and homes. So at first, the Confederacy had … (5); their men were better trained and fought with more spirit. The Union soldiers were getting tired. After they … (6) some important battles, the anti-slavery idea wasn't enough to inspire them any more. The Southerners felt that just one more big victory would be enough to win the war.
3. By 1861 there were already …(7) states in the Union. All the states were different from each other and developed in different ways. The …. (8) states built factories and plants, and they also had a bigger population. The … (9) had huge cotton fields, where black slaves worked. There were about three and a half million …(10) in their states.
4. It was all decided here in … (11) in June 1863. The three-day battle was terrible and took the lives of more than fifty thousand men. On the fourth day, the Confederate commander, …. (12), had to admit that he had lost the battle.
5. The Northerners were strongly against slavery; a lot of them helped slaves …(13) from their owners. They also tried to pass new laws to abolish slavery. The Southern states felt that their own country was against them, and they started to think of … (14) from the United States.
6. Two years later the Confederacy finally surrendered to the Union. As a result of the war, slavery was abolished and the United States of America was one country again.
7. After the battle, the American President, Abraham Lincoln, came to Gettysburg to honor the memory of those who had died there. He made a speech there, which later became famous as "….. (15)".