civil war Crossword Puzzles

Civil War 2022-02-07

Civil War crossword puzzle
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  1. 5 Passed Bills
  2. Established A Newspaper
  3. Led To Pro- And Antislavery Governments
  4. Illinois Senator
  5. Won The 1848 Election
  6. Wnated To Reinstate The Missouri Compromise
  7. Formed Due To A Refusal In 1848
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  1. Slave Or Free States
  2. Wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin
  3. Came From A Dispute Over Slavery
  4. Led Antislavery Forces
  5. Theorist From South Carolina
  6. Civil War Began Here
  7. Stoped Runaways
  8. CSA's President
  9. Proposed To Ban Slavery In Mexico
  10. Won The 1860 Election
  11. Drafted The Missouri Compromise
  12. Network Of Safe Houses
  13. People From Missouri Who Crossed Over To Kansas To Start Fights

20 Clues: 5 Passed Bills • Stoped Runaways • CSA's President • Illinois Senator • Slave Or Free States • Civil War Began Here • Won The 1860 Election • Won The 1848 Election • Led Antislavery Forces • Network Of Safe Houses • Wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin • Established A Newspaper • Theorist From South Carolina • Drafted The Missouri Compromise • Formed Due To A Refusal In 1848 • ...

Civil War 2022-02-15

Civil War crossword puzzle
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  1. Failed To Address Slavery And Sectinalism
  2. Drafted The Missouri Compromise
  3. Established A Newspaper
  4. CSA's President
  5. Formed Due To A Refusal In 1848
  6. 5 Passed Bills
  7. Won The 1848 Election
  8. People From Missouri Who Crossed Over To Kansas To Start Fights
  9. Proposed To Ban Slavery In Mexico
  10. Led Antislavery Forces
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  1. Theorist From South Carolina
  2. Network Of Safe Houses
  3. Wanted To Reinstate The Missouri Compromise
  4. Won The 1860 Election
  5. Illinois Senetor
  6. Sopped Runaways
  7. Came From A Dispute Over Slavery
  8. Wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin
  9. Slave Or Free States
  10. Led To Pro- And Antislavery Governments

20 Clues: 5 Passed Bills • Sopped Runaways • CSA's President • Illinois Senetor • Slave Or Free States • Won The 1860 Election • Won The 1848 Election • Network Of Safe Houses • Led Antislavery Forces • Wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin • Established A Newspaper • Theorist From South Carolina • Drafted The Missouri Compromise • Formed Due To A Refusal In 1848 • Came From A Dispute Over Slavery • ...

Civil War 2022-04-01

Civil War crossword puzzle
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  1. president of the Union
  2. do away with something
  3. Battle ended the civil war
  4. when you are forced to come into the military at a specific age
  5. first battle of the civil war
  6. General of the confederate army
  7. Freedom of the states to make their own rules
  8. A tax on imported or exported goods
  9. The north, all free states
  10. president of the Confederacy
  11. putting loyalty to one section of the area you are in
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  1. The period of rebuilding after the Civil war
  2. Kept free and slave states balanced
  3. No exporting or transporting things in or out
  4. someone running or in hiding from something
  5. A slave state that is still apart of the Union
  6. Someone fighting against slavery
  7. Freedom from slavery
  8. To separate
  9. General of the Union army

20 Clues: To separate • Freedom from slavery • president of the Union • do away with something • General of the Union army • Battle ended the civil war • The north, all free states • president of the Confederacy • first battle of the civil war • General of the confederate army • Someone fighting against slavery • Kept free and slave states balanced • A tax on imported or exported goods • ...

Civil War 2022-04-12

Civil War crossword puzzle
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  1. Buff Boat
  2. The war Name
  3. ended the war
  4. Fighting
  5. President
  6. Good Side
  7. Common Gun Used
  8. something racist
  9. Single Day Bloodiest Battle
  10. Turning Point
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  1. a Strategy used in the war
  2. Escaped Slave
  3. Big Weapon
  4. first to secede
  5. knife on gun
  6. confederate leader
  7. Near Mananas
  8. Bad Side
  9. Rapid Fire Gun
  10. flew in the air

20 Clues: Fighting • Bad Side • Buff Boat • President • Good Side • Big Weapon • The war Name • knife on gun • Near Mananas • Escaped Slave • ended the war • Turning Point • Rapid Fire Gun • first to secede • Common Gun Used • flew in the air • something racist • confederate leader • a Strategy used in the war • Single Day Bloodiest Battle

Civil War 2014-05-06

Civil War crossword puzzle
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  1. people killed or wounded
  2. union soldiers
  3. not to cast votes
  4. helped hundreds escape slavery by way of the underground railroad
  5. a person who dies for a great cause
  6. was an enslaved African American bought by an army doctor
  7. union commander at cairo
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  1. payments to encourage volunteers
  2. sovereinty allowing the people to decide
  3. runaway, slaves to their masters
  4. exaggerated loyalty to a particular region of the country
  5. senator of south carolina counteredwith another propasal
  6. free
  7. conflict between citizens of the same country
  8. a west point graduate and an experienced soldier
  9. storage place for weapons
  10. took command of the army opposing McClain
  11. confederate army
  12. went on the attack
  13. withdrawl from the union

20 Clues: free • union soldiers • confederate army • not to cast votes • went on the attack • people killed or wounded • withdrawl from the union • union commander at cairo • storage place for weapons • payments to encourage volunteers • runaway, slaves to their masters • a person who dies for a great cause • sovereinty allowing the people to decide • took command of the army opposing McClain • ...

Civil War 2014-03-18

Civil War crossword puzzle
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  1. The lowest rank in the army.
  2. Actively attacking someone.
  3. Phrase used to describe soldiers who were either new to the military of had never fought in a battle before.
  4. Rush towards the enemy.
  5. To fire along the length of an enemy's battle line.
  6. An overwhelming, advancing force that crushes or seems to crush everything in its path.
  7. A soldier standing guard.
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  1. Nineteenth century term for the condition known today as edema.
  2. To formally enroll in the army or to call roll.
  3. Troops, like the National Guard, who are only called out to defend the land in an emergency.
  4. gunboats using stacked cotton bales to protect themselves from enemy fire.
  5. The officer who was responsible for supplying clothing, supplies and food for the troops.
  6. Small sewing kit soldiers used to repair their garments.
  7. A large gap or "hole" in a fortification's wall or embankments caused by artillery or mines, exposing the inside of the fortification to assault.
  8. A group of soldiers stationed at a military post.
  9. The term used to describe new soldiers.
  10. A branch of the military in which soldiers traveled and fought on foot.
  11. The term used for military supplies, such as weaponry and ammunition.
  12. A soldier who was wounded, killed, or missing in action.
  13. To pretend to attack in one direction while the real attack is directed somewhere else.

20 Clues: Rush towards the enemy. • A soldier standing guard. • Actively attacking someone. • The lowest rank in the army. • The term used to describe new soldiers. • To formally enroll in the army or to call roll. • A group of soldiers stationed at a military post. • To fire along the length of an enemy's battle line. • Small sewing kit soldiers used to repair their garments. • ...

Civil War 2012-11-27

Civil War crossword puzzle
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  1. Economy of the north was based on
  2. Worked on the farms to support the Confederate troops
  3. What the south wanted the new states to be
  4. A person who works to end slavery
  5. New state that was formed when Virginia couldn't decide which side to fight for.
  6. Economy of the south was based on
  7. To get rid of
  8. The place where lee surrendered to Grant
  9. Commander of the Confederate Forces and the Army of Northern VA
  10. This group of people did not take sides during the war
  11. Union iron-clad ship
  12. Commander of the Union Army
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  1. Nickname earned by Thomas Jackson during Bull Run
  2. Lead a raid on the arsenal at Harper's Ferry, VA in hopes of starting a slave rebellion
  3. What the north wanted the new states to be
  4. Elected President during the Civil War in 1860
  5. Fought for the confederates to protect their limited rights
  6. Confederate iron-clad ship
  7. The result of the battle between the two iron-clad ships
  8. Lead slaves North to Freedom
  9. Lead a slave revolt against Virginia Plantation Owners

21 Clues: To get rid of • Union iron-clad ship • Confederate iron-clad ship • Commander of the Union Army • Lead slaves North to Freedom • Economy of the north was based on • A person who works to end slavery • Economy of the south was based on • The place where lee surrendered to Grant • What the north wanted the new states to be • What the south wanted the new states to be • ...

Civil War 2012-04-19

Civil War crossword puzzle
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  1. A common food for soldiers was called what? It was a stew of small cubes of beef and crumbled corn bread mixed with bacon grease.
  2. Who said,"It does not seem to me if I were living in the country in which I was born?"
  3. Which state voted against secession by a vote 53 to 13.
  4. In March 1864, President Lincoln appointed who the hero of the Battle of Vicksburg?
  5. Where Grant earned the name "Unconditional surrender."
  6. By 1863 there was so shortage of fodd that women and children would storm stores for what?
  7. Clusters of white buildings and tents marked the presence of who?
  8. The largest Civil War Battle in North Carolina.
  9. What was the worst Confederate prison?
  10. Hygeine and nursing did not reach this place very often.
  11. What is aother word for "conscription?"
  12. This Texas harbor city fell to the Confederates in January 1863.
  13. a draft that would force certain members of the population to serve in the army.
  14. Final defeat for Hood in 1864
  15. On one occassion, what went through Clara Barton's sleeve, killing the soldier she was helping?
  16. He was the commanding general who attcked Washington D.C.
  17. The Civil War had a profound impact on the nation's what?
  18. When the Confederate fired on Fort Sumter, the shot was probably fired feom this island.
  19. The Emancipation Proclamation aimed for states in what?
  20. Who became the first woman nurse?
  21. What woman nurse cared for sick and wounded soldiers on the front lines?
  22. This man owned the "surrender house" at appornattury.
  23. What helped to show considerable improvement in the decline of the death rate among union wounded?
  24. Wester general brougyht to D.C by Lincoln to oversee all Army operations.
  25. The first few days in May of 1863, the south was beating the north in what Virginia town?
  26. He led the Union attack against Jackson at Fredericksburg.
  27. Who said,"If slaves will make good soldiers our whole theory of slavery is wrong."
  28. Lincoln was loaded onto a funeral train that carried him back to where?
  29. general pemberton's greatest defeat.
  30. African Americans were offen assigned here. Where they caught many dieases.
  31. The Battle of Shilon was faught in this southern state.
  32. For decades the North and South had been at odds concernng states' rights and slavery. After President Lincoln's election, this number of states seceded from the Union?
  33. On November 24th. General Hooker's men stormed this stronghold near Chattanooga, TN.
  34. Cleevrne and six others were killed here.
  35. Soldiers were sent off from there communities with the bands playing this song.
  36. In 1863 congress enacted the tax law that authorized the nations first what?
  37. Who was the future Court Justice that was wounded during the Battle at Antietam?
  38. While the Union was pushing deeper into confederate territory, southern plantions owners fled while many slaves to welcome who?
  39. Battlefield includes missionary Ridge. Lootout Mountain.
  40. Lee and Grant met to arrange a Confederate surrender of April 6, 1865 at which courthouse?
  41. A court oder that requires authorities to bring a person held in jail before the court to determine why he or she is being jailed.
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  1. The second great battle of the Civil War.
  2. The blame for the conditions at Andersonville prison was put on whaat commander?
  3. Supposedly when Lincoln died, this man said," Now he belongs to the ages,"
  4. Union secretary of war.
  5. Confederate commander at Chickamauge and Chattanaoga.
  6. They were the most edger to go out and serve, but they were always sent home
  7. In 1859, Robert E. Lee was sent to stop abolitionist John Brown, who tried to start an uprising of Virginia slaves near where?
  8. Picacho Peak occured in which present state?
  9. At Petersburg, this general was killed on April 2nd while trying to reach his troops.
  10. This state was admitted to the union on June 20th
  11. Stonewell captures 20,000 union soldiers here in 1862.
  12. Battle also know as the Battle of Fleetwood Hill
  13. The battles of Mansfield and Pleastant Hill happened in this state?
  14. Union Gerneral killed by a sniper at Spotsylvania court house.
  15. Lincoln's fist task as president to get control of his own what?
  16. Confederate for that protected the port of Wilminaton, NC.
  17. Famous commander of the Wolverines.
  18. In what community did women orangize a counrtywide system to send clothing, blankets, bandages, and other supplies to local soldiers
  19. When as the turning point in the war?
  20. In march of 1862, Grant gathered his troops near a small church named what?
  21. Who wrote."the Passing of the Armies?"
  22. While the white men were doing what the owners would hire free blacks, immigrants, women, and boys to replace them.
  23. On January 1, 1863 Lincoln issued what Proclamation?
  24. What is the capital of Confederacy?
  25. On April 14th, Lincoln and his wife saw this play at Ford's Theater.
  26. The first Battle of Bull Run, the Civil War's first major land battle, took place in this southern state.
  27. The union would only accepted what color of soldiers?
  28. Who was the featured speaker at the dedication of the National cemetery at gettysburg, November 1863?
  29. Shiloh is Hebrew for place of what?
  30. This Act set up a system of federal chartered banks, loans, and provided banks to be inspected?
  31. Where was President Lincoln assassinated
  32. Slave resistance gradually weakened what system?
  33. Wealthy citizens of Washington D.C traveled to the battlefield at Bull Run to pinic and watch what was supposed to be a Union victory. But it ended up being a what retreat?

74 Clues: Union secretary of war. • Final defeat for Hood in 1864 • Who became the first woman nurse? • Famous commander of the Wolverines. • Shiloh is Hebrew for place of what? • What is the capital of Confederacy? • general pemberton's greatest defeat. • When as the turning point in the war? • What was the worst Confederate prison? • Who wrote."the Passing of the Armies?" • ...

Civil War 2012-04-19

Civil War crossword puzzle
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  1. In 1862, the U.S. issued the first paper currency called _____.
  2. New ______ gradually changed the military strategy.
  3. Lincoln gave the Gettysburg ______.
  4. More than three _____ men fought in the Civil war.
  5. Lincoln's body was carried to ________, Illinois to be buried.
  6. How many slave states declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America?
  7. Grant had a strategy to immobilize Lee's army in Virginia while Sherman raided ______.
  8. The last battle, ________ _______, Texas was fought on May 13, 1865.
  9. who did Lincoln fire on November 7, 1862?
  10. Lee's senior corps commander at Gettysburg.
  11. Gettysburg lasted 3 ____.
  12. A soft lead bullet that was more destructive than earlier bullets. (2words)
  13. The bloodiest battle.
  14. President Lincoln issued the _____ proclamation after the Battle of Antietam, freeing all slaves in rebellious states.
  15. In the North most industries _____ but cotton textiles declined.
  16. The battle of Shiloh was fought in this southern state and resulted in 24,000 casualties.
  17. news of Fort ____'s fall united the north.
  18. How many miles was the battle of Bull Run from the Union capital?
  19. Northerners and Confederates expected a ______, glorious war.
  20. On November 24th, 1863 Gen. Hooker's men stormed this stronghold near Chattanooga, TN. (2 words)
  21. The First Battle of Bull Run took place in this Southern state.
  22. The union devised a ____-part plan to conquer the South.
  23. At cold harbor, Virginia 7000 Americans fell in ________ minutes.
  24. Starting May 1864, Grant threw his troops into battle in the wilderness near ____________, Virginia.
  25. _______ percent of Confederate prisoners died in Northern prisons.
  26. _______ believed the Emancipation Proclamation would only prolong the war by agonizing the South.
  27. _______ were outraged with the Emancipation proclamation.
  28. Confederates smuggled _____ into the North in exchange for gold, food, and other goods.
  29. Lincoln was assassinated in Ford's _______ in 1865.
  30. The Union had many advantages in _______.
  31. what are more accurate than old fashioned muskets?
  32. March 1864, Lincoln appointed Grants as ______ of all union armies?
  33. March 4, 1865 Lincoln was __________ for a second term.
  34. President Lincoln ordered a ______________ of Southern ports in 1861.
  35. Where was the worst Confederate prison?
  36. a particularly gruesome massacre occurred at fort _______, Tennessee in 1864.
  37. Substitutes for _______ were brewed peanuts, dried apples, or corn.
  38. The economic boom in the North had a dark side, people's standards of living ________.
  39. On April 18,1861 which supply ship dropped anchor off the coast of New Jersey?
  40. What ship was an instrument of Grant and Farragut in the west as a new type of war machinery.
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  1. Who won the Civil War?
  2. This state was admitted to the union on June 20, 1863.
  3. Lincoln responded to the defeat at Bull Run by calling for the enlistment of 500,000 men to serve for 3 ___ instead of 3 months.
  4. In the presidential election of 1860, who led the Republican party?
  5. Under the emancipation proclamation free blacks were also allowed to _____ in the Union army.
  6. Who was appointed by Ulysses S. Grant as commander of the military division of the Mississippi?
  7. Lincoln did not feel that the government could ______ slavery where it already existed.
  8. This general was forced to surrender Vicksburg after a six week siege led by U.S. general Grant.
  9. The government passed the ________ ______ ___ of 1863, which set up a system of federally chartered banks.
  10. Fort Sumter was on an island in which harbor?
  11. State where Gettysburg was located.
  12. The first major bloodshed occurred on July 21, about three months after _____ ________ fell.
  13. In ______ 1862 a Union army invaded western Tennessee.
  14. Slave resistance gradually ________ the plantation system.
  15. Capital of the Confederacy?
  16. In 1863 who was defeated at the Battle of Gettysburg?
  17. David G. Farragut was assigned to seize ___ ______, the Confederacy's largest city and biggest port.
  18. How many years did The Civil War last?
  19. _______ seceded from the union on December 20, 1860.
  20. A court order that requires authorities to bring a person held in jail before the court to determine why he or she is being jailed.(2 words)
  21. What nurse was described as the "angel of the battlefield"?
  22. Lincoln was ______ on April 14, 1865.
  23. The Civil War was one of the earliest true _______ wars.
  24. On April 9, 1868 Lee and Grant met to arrange a Confederate _____.
  25. emancipation would discourage Britain from supporting the _______.
  26. A __________ was passed in March 1863, making all men between 20 and 45 subject to being called for military service.
  27. This Texas Harbor city fell to the confederates in January 1863.
  28. A union steam frigate, the _______, had sunk off the coast of Virginia in 1861.
  29. Shiloh was close to which border?
  30. The Northern newspapers dubbed their strategy the _________ plan.
  31. The four year war was estimated to cost 3.3 ______ dollars.
  32. Gettysburg was considered the ____ point of the civil war.
  33. Bull Run was the first victory for the _____.
  34. A head general who was a west Point graduate.

74 Clues: The bloodiest battle. • Who won the Civil War? • Gettysburg lasted 3 ____. • Capital of the Confederacy? • Shiloh was close to which border? • Lincoln gave the Gettysburg ______. • State where Gettysburg was located. • Lincoln was ______ on April 14, 1865. • How many years did The Civil War last? • Where was the worst Confederate prison? • ...

Civil War 2012-05-13

Civil War crossword puzzle
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  1. The president of the Confederate states (last name)
  2. The effort by the North to keep ships from entering or leaving Southern ports
  3. Troops Phrase used to describe soldiers who were either new to the military or had never fought in a battle before.
  4. Loyal to the Confederacy. Also Southern or Rebel
  5. Control of African Americans as if they were property
  6. used for transporting wounded soldiers to hospitals
  7. A soldier who was wounded, killed, or missing in action
  8. Term for a Northerner who opposed the war effort
  9. General for the Union army (last name)
  10. A minor fight
  11. Won the Civil War
  12. Cap worn by Civil War soldiers; more prevalent among Union soldiers
  13. Slang term used for dice
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  1. people came to watch this battle
  2. Loyal to the government of the United States; also known as Union, Yankee, or Northern
  3. A group of soldiers stationed at a military post
  4. The term used for military supplies, such as weaponry and ammunition
  5. Were performed with a saw
  6. consept of destroying everything in the way
  7. A place where weapons and other military supplies are manufactured
  8. The president of the Union (last name)
  9. Freedom of slaves
  10. General for the Confederate army (last name)
  11. Lincoln's Vice President
  12. Small sewing kit soldiers used to repair their garments
  13. Battle fought in September 1862

26 Clues: A minor fight • Freedom of slaves • Won the Civil War • Lincoln's Vice President • Slang term used for dice • Were performed with a saw • Battle fought in September 1862 • people came to watch this battle • The president of the Union (last name) • General for the Union army (last name) • consept of destroying everything in the way • General for the Confederate army (last name) • ...

Civil War 2013-04-26

Civil War crossword puzzle
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  1. was fought on July 21, 1861, in Prince William County, Virginia, near the city of Manassas.
  2. the South during the American Civil War to coerce Great Britain and France to support the Southern war effort by implementing a cotton trade embargo against Great Britain and Europe.
  3. Island one of the battles in the western theatre of the War of 1812 was fought here between Sauk Indians with British support and a regiment under the command of Major Zachary Taylor.
  4. Big heavily armored ships made out of a type of metal.
  5. was fought on December 19, 1862, in Madison County, Tennessee, during the American Civil War.
  6. are goods that come into the country illegally.
  7. was an infantry regiment that saw extensive service in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
  8. is a legal action that requires a person under arrest to be brought before a judge or into court.
  9. In a series of maneuvers, Union Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant and his Army of the Tennessee crossed the Mississippi River and drove the Confederate army of Lt. Gen. John C. Pemberton.
  10. is any of various efforts to procuring political rights or equality.
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  1. was fought near Port Gibson, Mississippi, on May 1, 1863, between Union and Confederate forces during the Vicksburg Campaign.
  2. also known as the Battle of Pittsburg Landing, was a major battle in the Western Theater of the American Civil War, fought April 6 – 7, 1862.
  3. also known as the Battle of Sharpsburg, particularly in the South, fought on Wednesday, September 17, 1862, near Sharpsburg, Maryland.
  4. Island It took place near Charleston, South Carolina, during the first British attempt to capture the city from American rebels.
  5. It proclaimed all those enslaved in Confederate territory to be forever free, and ordered the Army to treat as free all those enslaved in ten states that were still in rebellion.
  6. were members of a vocal group of Democrats located in the Northern United States of the Union who opposed the American Civil War.
  7. was fought August 28–30, 1862,[1] as part of the American Civil War.
  8. days battle was a series of six major battles over the seven days from June 25 to July 1, 1862, near Richmond, Virginia.
  9. was an infantry assault ordered by Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee against Maj. Gen. George G. Meade's Union positions on Cemetery Ridge on July 3, 1863.
  10. were slave states that did not declare their secession from the United States before April 1861.

20 Clues: are goods that come into the country illegally. • Big heavily armored ships made out of a type of metal. • was fought August 28–30, 1862,[1] as part of the American Civil War. • is any of various efforts to procuring political rights or equality. • was fought on July 21, 1861, in Prince William County, Virginia, near the city of Manassas. • ...

Civil War 2014-12-11

Civil War crossword puzzle
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  1. 1) began 1867 in Tennessee 2) intimidated freed blacks and white republicans
  2. 1) A slave was suing his owner 2) the slave lost and was returned to his owner
  3. 1) California was admitted as a free state 2) the fugitive slave act was created
  4. 1) most prominent black legislator 2) elected to the constitutional convention of 1867 and the Georgia House of Representatives
  5. 1) began November 15, 1864 and ended December 21, 1864 2) an attempt to capture savannah
  6. 1) a famous speech president Abraham Lincoln gave 2) after the "turning point" of the war battle
  7. Led by Alexander Stephens 2) prevented a civil war for 11 years
  8. 1) owned their own tools 2) owned their own animals
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  1. 1) laws that said blacks could not vote, testify against whites in court, and serve as jurors 2) they created the 14th amendment because of these
  2. 1) brought nothing but their labor 2) had to buy tools from the landowner
  3. 1) The final event that led to the Civil War 2) Abraham Lincoln, John Breckenridge, John Bell, and Stephen Douglas ran for president
  4. 1) private citizens who took the risk of invading the Union blockade for the chance at huge profits 2) were suppose to make it to Europe and back
  5. 1) made African Americans citizens of the United States 2) required that African Americans are given the same rights as all U.S. Citizens
  6. 1) aka Sherman's march though Georgia 2) led two seep rate military campaigns in the state of Georgia
  7. 1) the north and south allowed a state to be admitted to the union as a slave state then they added a free state 2) created the 36 30' parallel
  8. 1) grew because of the cotton gin 2) abolitionist tried to end this
  9. 1) The "turning point" of the Civil War 2) The South retreated back to Virginia
  10. 1) the return of runaway slaves 2) was included in the the compromise of 1850
  11. 1) officially ended slavery 2) due to the passage of this, Georgia was readmitted to the union
  12. 1) was governor of Georgia 2) unionist who resisted slavery till the very end
  13. 1) an example popular sovereignty 2) The states could choose if they wanted to be slave states or free states
  14. 1) one of the major conflicts of the civil war 2) the amount of power the local and federal governments had to make decision
  15. 1) a Prisoner of war camp 2) located in Macon county
  16. 1) aka the union blockade 2) prevented the south from shipping cotton to England

24 Clues: 1) owned their own tools 2) owned their own animals • 1) a Prisoner of war camp 2) located in Macon county • Led by Alexander Stephens 2) prevented a civil war for 11 years • 1) grew because of the cotton gin 2) abolitionist tried to end this • 1) brought nothing but their labor 2) had to buy tools from the landowner • ...

Civil War 2015-05-18

Civil War crossword puzzle
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  1. a metal attachment on end of rifle
  2. the president of the United States 1860
  3. Long cuts (trenches) dug out of the earth with the dirt piled up into a mound in front; used for defense
  4. the drafting of military personnel
  5. A new way of conducting war appeared during the Civil War. Instead of focusing only on military targets, armies conducting total war destroyed homes and crops to demoralize and undermine the civilian base of the enemy’s war effort.
  6. Large logs painted to look like cannons; used to fool the enemy into thinking a position was stronger than it really was
  7. the foundation of the Southern economy
  8. a person who wanted to end slavery
  9. A Northerner; someone loyal to the Federal government of the United States. Also, Union, Federal, or Northern.
  10. a primary cause of the Civil War
  11. Blocking the supply lines and escape routes of a city to force it to surrender; usually one army traps another army in a location until it is forced to surrender
  12. the North
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  1. A disease caused by lack of ascorbic acid (found in fresh fruits and vegetables). Its symptoms include spongy gums, loose teeth, and bleeding into the skin and mucous membranes
  2. Withdrawal from the Federal government of the United States. Southern states, feeling persecuted by the North, left the USA by voting to separate from the Union
  3. an effort to prevent the movement of supplies, people and communication
  4. A term used to describe the time in American history directly after the Civil War during which the South was “reconstructed” by the North after its loss in the war
  5. the South
  6. the leading general of Confederate forces
  7. name given to Southerners
  8. a series of military operations that form a distinct phase of the War, such as Sherman's March to the Sea
  9. a tide turning battle in 1863

21 Clues: the South • the North • name given to Southerners • a tide turning battle in 1863 • a primary cause of the Civil War • a metal attachment on end of rifle • the drafting of military personnel • a person who wanted to end slavery • the foundation of the Southern economy • the president of the United States 1860 • the leading general of Confederate forces • ...

civil war 2015-05-19

civil war crossword puzzle
Across
  1. a branch of the military in which soldiers traveled and fought on foot
  2. someone who wishes to abolish slavery
  3. a place where weapons and other military supplies manufactured
  4. intestinal disease causing severe diarrhea
  5. escaped slaves who fled to the union lines for protection
  6. a place where weapons and other military supplies are stored
  7. a series of military operations the form a distinct phase of the war
  8. the effort by the north to keep ships from entering or leaving southern ports
  9. loyal to the government of the united states; union, Yankee, northern
  10. a large gap in a fortification's walls or embankments caused by artillery or mines, exposing the inside of the fortification to assult
Down
  1. a term used for "living off the land," as well as plundering committed by soldiers
  2. loyal to the confederacy; southern or rebel
  3. the science of growing cash crops or raising livestock
  4. gunboats using stacked cotton bales to protect themselves from enemy fire
  5. a ship protected by iron armor
  6. term for a northerner who opposed the war effort
  7. a two or four wheeled wagon used to transport injured soldiers
  8. the long metal tube on a gun through which a projectile id fired
  9. to lie in wait for an unexpected attack
  10. to practice marching, military formations and the steps in firing and handling one's weapon

20 Clues: a ship protected by iron armor • someone who wishes to abolish slavery • to lie in wait for an unexpected attack • intestinal disease causing severe diarrhea • loyal to the confederacy; southern or rebel • term for a northerner who opposed the war effort • the science of growing cash crops or raising livestock • escaped slaves who fled to the union lines for protection • ...

Civil war 2016-05-17

Civil war crossword puzzle
Across
  1. rights and powers independent of the federal government that are reserved for the states by the Constitution; the belief that states rights supersede federal rights and law
  2. runaway
  3. said that slavery should be banned from any lands that might be acquired from Mexico
  4. a nearly unknown candidate for president in 1860 who believed slavery was morally wrong
  5. withdraw from the Union
  6. the idea that people could exclude slavery by refusing to pass laws protecting slaveholders rights
  7. allowing the people to decide
  8. the five main points of Clays original plan
  9. an exaggerated loyalty to a particular region of the country
  10. a storage place for weapons and ammunition
  11. claimed Dred Scott was a slave and slaves were considered property and according to the Constitution property cannot be taken away by the government therefore the Constitution protected slavery
  12. claimed he should be free because he once lived in free soil
Down
  1. a conflict between citizens of the same country
  2. an African American leader who gained freedom by fleeing to North, later returned and helped other enslaved Africans escape through the Underground Railroad
  3. preserved the balance between slave and free states
  4. leave
  5. a person who dies for a great cause
  6. required all citizens to help catch runaways
  7. formed by the antislavery Democrats, Whigs and the old Liberty Party
  8. not to cast votes

20 Clues: leave • runaway • not to cast votes • withdraw from the Union • allowing the people to decide • a person who dies for a great cause • a storage place for weapons and ammunition • the five main points of Clays original plan • required all citizens to help catch runaways • a conflict between citizens of the same country • preserved the balance between slave and free states • ...

Civil War 2016-03-14

Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. The state of being a slave
  2. Chairman of the Secession Convention
  3. State or side that was not for slavery
  4. Member or supporter of the Republic
  5. Relating to the Democratic Party
  6. What the rebuilding after the Civil War was called
  7. Failed attempt to prevent Federal Occupation in Fort Smith
  8. president during the war
  9. The Civil War's largest battle
  10. State or person who wanted or was for slavery
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  1. Withdraw formally from membership in a federal union, an alliance, or a political or religious organization
  2. Thomas Jackson's nickname
  3. America's bloodiest clash
  4. Someone who wanted to abolish slavery
  5. Lincoln's address freeing all African American slaves engaged in rebellion against the union
  6. Clan of white males who targeted (mostly) African Americans
  7. Failed attempt of Union Conquest to capture Arkansas
  8. Confederate leader of Gettysburg
  9. Activist superintendent of army nurses
  10. Sixth governor of Arkansas

20 Clues: president during the war • Thomas Jackson's nickname • America's bloodiest clash • The state of being a slave • Sixth governor of Arkansas • The Civil War's largest battle • Relating to the Democratic Party • Confederate leader of Gettysburg • Member or supporter of the Republic • Chairman of the Secession Convention • Someone who wanted to abolish slavery • ...

Civil War 2016-04-15

Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. A nickname for the money used during the Civil War.
  2. Given the honor of commanding troops that formally accepted the surrender of the Confederacy Army.
  3. Assassinated president Lincoln because he was outraged at the Souths defeat war.
  4. A nickname given to the Northerners by the Confederation.
  5. A soldier who has wounded or been killed in a battle.
  6. The 16th President
  7. Set up in a strong position.
  8. to free all black people from slavery.
  9. main cause of the Civil War.
  10. The Battle of Shiloh was fought in this Southern state and resulted in 24,000 casualties.
Down
  1. President Lincoln ordered this of Southern ports in 1861
  2. The most famous general on the Confederate army
  3. Freed over 70 slaves through the Underground Railroad.
  4. Capital of Confederacy
  5. The side that was against slaves
  6. The First Battle of Bull Run, the Civil War’s first major land battle, took place in this Southern state.
  7. The side that wanted slaves.
  8. proclamation This law was signed in January 1863.
  9. The right which guarantees accused individuals the right to a hearing before being jailed.
  10. President of the Confederacy during the Civil War.

20 Clues: The 16th President • Capital of Confederacy • The side that wanted slaves. • Set up in a strong position. • main cause of the Civil War. • The side that was against slaves • to free all black people from slavery. • The most famous general on the Confederate army • proclamation This law was signed in January 1863. • President of the Confederacy during the Civil War. • ...

Civil War 2016-03-02

Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. a female given name
  2. the state or quality of being loyal
  3. to fill with fear or terror
  4. power in terms of people
  5. a cause or occasion of keen distress or sorrow
  6. a violent expansion or bursting with noise
  7. bring or put together
  8. weapon
  9. having or exerting great power or force
  10. the end of life
  11. A light to be carried in the hand
  12. red liquid that generates the human body
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  1. to break or harm that reduces value or usefulness
  2. a deficiency in quality
  3. to utter a threat against
  4. the act of a person or thing that kill
  5. powerful
  6. a work of art produced by this technique
  7. a permanent road made with tracks
  8. to be unwilling or dislike

20 Clues: weapon • powerful • the end of life • a female given name • bring or put together • a deficiency in quality • power in terms of people • to utter a threat against • to be unwilling or dislike • to fill with fear or terror • a permanent road made with tracks • A light to be carried in the hand • the state or quality of being loyal • the act of a person or thing that kill • ...

Civil War 2023-03-09

Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Another name for the Confederate States of America or the South
  2. Putting the local interests and customs ahead of the entire country.
  3. A decision made by the Supreme Court that said Congress could not outlaw slavery and that people of African descent were not necessarily U.S. citizens.
  4. A term meaning "before war"
  5. A person who wanted to eliminate or "abolish" slavery.
  6. A nickname given to people in the South supporting the Confederate States
  7. Said that black people were citizens of the United States and that all people were protected equally by the law
  8. The Confederacy
  9. The name given to the states that stayed loyal to the United States government. Also called the North.
  10. Outlawed slavery
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  1. Gave all male citizens the right to vote regardless of race.
  2. When the southern states chose to leave the United States and to no longer be a part of the country.
  3. These were laws that prevented black people from voting, going to school, owning land, and even getting jobs
  4. An executive order from President Abraham Lincoln stating that the enslaved in the Confederate states were to be set free.
  5. A law passed by Congress in 1850 that said escaped enslaved people in free states had to be returned to their owners.
  6. The rebuilding of war torn southern states so they could be readmitted into the Union after the Civil War.
  7. An attempt to stop people and supplies from going in or out of a port
  8. These states were slave states that did not leave the Union, but largely supported the cause of the Confederates
  9. Was the president before he was assasinated.
  10. States of the United States, also called the Union.

20 Clues: The Confederacy • Outlawed slavery • A term meaning "before war" • Was the president before he was assasinated. • States of the United States, also called the Union. • A person who wanted to eliminate or "abolish" slavery. • Gave all male citizens the right to vote regardless of race. • Another name for the Confederate States of America or the South • ...

Civil War 2023-02-16

Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. The tactic General Sherman used on his march.
  2. The capital of the Confederacy.
  3. The rank of the majority of the soldiers.
  4. States that believed slavery should be legal but did not succeed.
  5. The first all black regiment.
  6. The plan General Winfield Scott came up with for the Union.
  7. The war the south was fighting.
  8. Union leader for the Battle of Gettysburg.
  9. Where General Robert E. Lee surrendered.
Down
  1. Where the battle of Fort Sumter took place.
  2. The person who assassinated President Lincoln.
  3. The states that wanted slavery to remain legal.
  4. Most famous Civil War nurse.
  5. Southerners who thought secession was too dangerous.
  6. Something you are not allowed to have.
  7. The battle where no one died.
  8. The person who won the Presidential election of 1860.
  9. To formally leave something.
  10. The turning point in the war.
  11. To be free from something.

20 Clues: To be free from something. • Most famous Civil War nurse. • To formally leave something. • The battle where no one died. • The first all black regiment. • The turning point in the war. • The capital of the Confederacy. • The war the south was fighting. • Something you are not allowed to have. • Where General Robert E. Lee surrendered. • The rank of the majority of the soldiers. • ...

Civil War 2022-09-26

Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. farmers worked on someone else land in return for a small portion of the crops
  2. The adding of a region to the territory of an existing political unit
  3. Confederate general
  4. Loyalty to one's own region of the country, rather than to the nation as a whole
  5. an American general and the eighteenth President of the United States (1869-1877).
  6. 1st major battle in the american civil war to take place on northern soil
  7. belief that an individual state may restrict federal authority
  8. 6th President of the United States saved the Union during the Civil War and emancipated the slaves
  9. Served as President of the Confederate States of America for its entire history from 1861 to 1865
Down
  1. set up Kansas and Nebraska as states
  2. a law that made it a crime to help runaway slaves
  3. the southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861
  4. northerners who went to the south during the reconstruction
  5. Lincoln wins, southern states begin to secede
  6. federal fort in the harbor of charleston
  7. sequence of violent events involving abolitionists and pro-Slavery elements that took place in Kansas-Nebraska Territory.
  8. Bill that would ban slavery in the territories acquired after the War with Mexico
  9. abolished slavery
  10. rule by the army instead of the elected government
  11. a white southerner who joined the republican party during the reconstruction period

20 Clues: abolished slavery • Confederate general • set up Kansas and Nebraska as states • federal fort in the harbor of charleston • Lincoln wins, southern states begin to secede • a law that made it a crime to help runaway slaves • rule by the army instead of the elected government • northerners who went to the south during the reconstruction • ...

Civil war 2023-04-19

Civil war crossword puzzle
Across
  1. General who later became president
  2. The North was also called by this "uniting" name
  3. Union General who later became president
  4. The Monitor and Merrimac were made of this metal
  5. first state to leave the union
  6. These people were freed by the Emancipation Proclamation.
  7. Assassin of Lincoln
  8. when two or more countries have multiple disagreements
  9. when a state left the union
  10. State burnt by General Sherman and his army
Down
  1. This state was home to Richmond, one of the capitals of the Confederacy
  2. another name for a big farm in the south
  3. vicepresident to lincoln
  4. where the civil war began
  5. fought the north
  6. Bloody battle fought near Sharpsburg, Maryland
  7. Union General at the Battle of Gettysburg
  8. Jefferson Davis was president of this southern government
  9. He marched to Savannah
  10. type of cabin where lincoln grew up
  11. color of the confederate uniforms

21 Clues: fought the north • Assassin of Lincoln • He marched to Savannah • vicepresident to lincoln • where the civil war began • when a state left the union • first state to leave the union • color of the confederate uniforms • General who later became president • type of cabin where lincoln grew up • another name for a big farm in the south • Union General who later became president • ...

Civil War 2023-04-14

Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. was killed by his own men.
  2. War was a war that was fought for four years.
  3. A female person that helped during a war or after.
  4. is A female that started the red cross.
  5. Leader of the Union.
  6. a male shot our president.
  7. A male person that went to goes to war.
  8. what state starts with a vole and ends with one?
  9. is an Indian state.
  10. is to withdraw from a group
Down
  1. something you shoot
  2. is a male that fought and helped in the War.
  3. a big state
  4. big ball
  5. Leader of the Confeds
  6. is a thing that can last years
  7. was smaller than the war and possibly could be worse.
  8. a male was shot and was our president.
  9. Gun with knife
  10. stab stab

20 Clues: big ball • stab stab • a big state • Gun with knife • something you shoot • is an Indian state. • Leader of the Union. • Leader of the Confeds • was killed by his own men. • a male shot our president. • is to withdraw from a group • is a thing that can last years • a male was shot and was our president. • is A female that started the red cross. • A male person that went to goes to war. • ...

Civil War 2023-04-14

Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. was killed by his own men.
  2. War was a war that was fought for four years.
  3. A female person that helped during a war or after.
  4. is A female that started the red cross.
  5. Leader of the Union.
  6. a male shot our president.
  7. A male person that went to goes to war.
  8. what state starts with a vole and ends with one?
  9. is an Indian state.
  10. is to withdraw from a group
Down
  1. something you shoot
  2. is a male that fought and helped in the War.
  3. a big state
  4. big ball
  5. Leader of the Confeds
  6. is a thing that can last years
  7. was smaller than the war and possibly could be worse.
  8. a male was shot and was our president.
  9. Gun with knife
  10. stab stab

20 Clues: big ball • stab stab • a big state • Gun with knife • something you shoot • is an Indian state. • Leader of the Union. • Leader of the Confeds • was killed by his own men. • a male shot our president. • is to withdraw from a group • is a thing that can last years • a male was shot and was our president. • is A female that started the red cross. • A male person that went to goes to war. • ...

Civil War 2023-04-14

Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. was killed by his own men.
  2. War was a war that was fought for four years.
  3. A female person that helped during a war or after.
  4. is A female that started the red cross.
  5. Leader of the Union.
  6. a male shot our president.
  7. A male person that went to goes to war.
  8. what state starts with a vole and ends with one?
  9. is an Indian state.
  10. is to withdraw from a group
Down
  1. something you shoot
  2. is a male that fought and helped in the War.
  3. a big state
  4. big ball
  5. Leader of the Confeds
  6. is a thing that can last years
  7. was smaller than the war and possibly could be worse.
  8. a male was shot and was our president.
  9. Gun with knife
  10. stab stab

20 Clues: big ball • stab stab • a big state • Gun with knife • something you shoot • is an Indian state. • Leader of the Union. • Leader of the Confeds • was killed by his own men. • a male shot our president. • is to withdraw from a group • is a thing that can last years • a male was shot and was our president. • is A female that started the red cross. • A male person that went to goes to war. • ...

civil war 2023-02-23

civil war crossword puzzle
Across
  1. First battle of the American Civil war
  2. south side of the us Population was 9 million
  3. Had a Popultion of 22 million
  4. to get rid of
  5. an opinion or judgement made before the facts are known
  6. the deadliest one day battle of the civil war
  7. general winfield came up with the _______ _______
  8. an act of sealing off a place to prevent goods or people from entering or leaving
  9. First Battle of Bull Run/Manasses
Down
  1. Largest battle of the civil war
  2. the construction of road canals
  3. was over the Emancipation Proclamation
  4. people who work on plantations
  5. also wanted to gain support of the _______ _______
  6. elected as president in 1828
  7. to formally withdraw from membership in a political state
  8. the belief that race determines traits and capacities
  9. was a border state
  10. ____ slavery into the territories
  11. before the war

20 Clues: to get rid of • before the war • was a border state • elected as president in 1828 • Had a Popultion of 22 million • people who work on plantations • Largest battle of the civil war • the construction of road canals • ____ slavery into the territories • First Battle of Bull Run/Manasses • First battle of the American Civil war • was over the Emancipation Proclamation • ...

Civil War 2023-02-28

Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. they ran through the blockade
  2. spreading your specific ideology
  3. the name of the confederacy
  4. had more experienced soldiers
  5. the bill that freed the slaves
  6. not interested in the same view the others in your country are
  7. believing someone is above you
Down
  1. majority wins
  2. to give up power
  3. Union president
  4. ignoring a law
  5. leaving a country
  6. the base needs to run a country
  7. the time before war
  8. the main gun used in the civil war
  9. someone who works for no pay and under bad onditions
  10. someone ho escapes
  11. intensely loving your country
  12. the side that ad more resources
  13. crossing a continents

20 Clues: majority wins • ignoring a law • Union president • to give up power • leaving a country • someone ho escapes • the time before war • crossing a continents • the name of the confederacy • they ran through the blockade • had more experienced soldiers • intensely loving your country • the bill that freed the slaves • believing someone is above you • the base needs to run a country • ...

Civil War 2023-04-06

Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Political party that boycotted U.S. Congress
  2. Done for the first time in the U.S. Civil War
  3. How many states seceded
  4. Who led the March to Sea
  5. To eliminate
  6. Proposed the Anaconda Plan
  7. Speech given after the Battle of Gettysburg
  8. Robert E. Lee's horse
  9. Who surrendered at Appomattox Courthouse
  10. Firing at the fort that started the war
Down
  1. Vice-president of the Confederate States of America
  2. President of the Confederate States of America
  3. 2nd state to leave the Union
  4. 1st battle of the war
  5. 1st capital of the Confederacy
  6. Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin
  7. What month did the Civil War start
  8. What was the single bloodiest day of the war
  9. Slave state that did not leave the Union
  10. President of the U.S.

20 Clues: To eliminate • 1st battle of the war • Robert E. Lee's horse • President of the U.S. • How many states seceded • Who led the March to Sea • Proposed the Anaconda Plan • Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin • 2nd state to leave the Union • 1st capital of the Confederacy • What month did the Civil War start • Firing at the fort that started the war • Slave state that did not leave the Union • ...

Civil War 2023-04-06

Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. The president
  2. Union's plan to defeat the Confederacy
  3. Where Lincoln gave a speech
  4. Southern states that seceded from the USA in 1861
  5. First State to secede from the Union
  6. States associated with the Confederacy
  7. The victors
  8. Food given to soldiers during the war
  9. Leader of the Confederates
  10. How many years the war took
  11. A confederate leader
Down
  1. A symbolic division between free states and slave states. Located between Pennsylvania, Maryland and Deleware
  2. Freedom from slavery
  3. Someone who wishes to end slavery
  4. Person Loyal to the Confederate States
  5. Gun A rapid firing, multiple barrel firearm, usually mounted on wheels like a cannonn
  6. States associated with the Union
  7. This was abolished
  8. Irish Platoon of Union Soldiers that held off the South at Gettysburg, and were later honored as the University of Notre Dame's mascott.
  9. Someone loyal to the Union in the North
  10. The Month of the war

21 Clues: The victors • The president • This was abolished • Freedom from slavery • The Month of the war • A confederate leader • Leader of the Confederates • Where Lincoln gave a speech • How many years the war took • States associated with the Union • Someone who wishes to end slavery • First State to secede from the Union • Food given to soldiers during the war • ...

Civil War 2023-05-02

Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Union campaign led by William T. Sherman with Savannah being the objective
  2. Naval strategy by the United States to prevent the Confederacy from trading
  3. Compromise between the North and South that allowed California to enter the union
  4. The first shots of the Civil War were fired in South Carolina
  5. the period after the Civil War in the United States when the southern states were reorganized, rebuilt, and reintegrated into the Union
  6. Compromise that brought Missouri into the Union
  7. A series of battles fought throughout northwest Georgia and the area around Atlanta
  8. Infamous prisoner-of-war camp
  9. Turning point in the Civil War
  10. Citizens cannot be denied the right to vote because of race, color , or precious condition of servitude
  11. Document that declared all slaves in the rebellious states would be freed
  12. Declares that all persons born in the U.S. are citizens and are guaranteed equal protection of the laws
  13. One of the first major battles in the Civil War
  14. An abolitionist who attempted to lead a slave revolt by capturing Armories in southern territory and giving weapons to slaves
Down
  1. Speech given by Abraham Lincoln in which he praised the bravery of Union soldiers and renewed his commitment to winning the Civil War
  2. Allowing political decisions to be made by the will of the people
  3. States where slavery was legal
  4. The act of making legally null and void
  5. Declared slaves were not citizens of the United States
  6. States where slavery was illegal
  7. Largest battle fought in Georgia
  8. Abolished slavery. First of three "Reconstruction Amendments"
  9. The bloodiest battle of the war
  10. Act that allowed the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide if they wanted to enter the union as free or slave states
  11. The 16th president of the United States during the Civil War

25 Clues: Infamous prisoner-of-war camp • States where slavery was legal • Turning point in the Civil War • The bloodiest battle of the war • States where slavery was illegal • Largest battle fought in Georgia • The act of making legally null and void • Compromise that brought Missouri into the Union • One of the first major battles in the Civil War • ...

Civil War 2017-05-22

Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. gave the "ain't i a woman?" speech
  2. President of the Confederacy
  3. speech given at gettysburg
  4. angel of the battlefield
  5. bloodiest battle of the civil war
  6. main reason that led to the civil war
  7. forced labor
  8. President of the Union
  9. battle that gave the union control of the mississippi river
  10. freed all slaves in the south
  11. first form of long distance communication through wires
  12. An effort by Congress to defuse the sectional and political rivalries by admitting Missouri as a slave state
  13. to withdraw from a federal union
  14. conductor of the underground railroad
Down
  1. assassinator of abraham lincoln
  2. commander of the union
  3. the north specialized in this
  4. who was shot but died from pneumonia
  5. a machine for separating cotton from the seeds
  6. first battle of the civil war
  7. route that freed thousands of slaves
  8. commander of the confederacy
  9. published "the liberator" an antislavery newspaper
  10. wrote uncle toms cabin
  11. fought for blacks to fight in the union

25 Clues: forced labor • commander of the union • President of the Union • wrote uncle toms cabin • angel of the battlefield • speech given at gettysburg • President of the Confederacy • commander of the confederacy • the north specialized in this • first battle of the civil war • freed all slaves in the south • assassinator of abraham lincoln • to withdraw from a federal union • ...

Civil war 2017-02-24

Civil war crossword puzzle
Across
  1. /A person who is legally owned by someone else and has to work for that person
  2. / South economy was based on... plantation
  3. / Did all Southern states supported the secession?
  4. / What surgeons on the battlefield didn't know about?
  5. North economy was based on ...
  6. Union officials used ... to move troops and supplies from one place to another
  7. / Confederacy President
  8. / American ... war was a conflict between the south and the north
  9. / By using ... Abraham Lincoln Become able to communicate on the spot with his officers on the battlefield.
  10. / How many states seceded the union by the time Lincoln entered office?
  11. The ... states during the Civil War were the slave states that didn't leave the Union
  12. / The ... Army was the land force that fought for the Union during the American Civil War
Down
  1. Sumter / Where The Confederate Artillery opened fire?
  2. / The war had its origin in the factious issue of ...
  3. President Lincoln's initial response to the attack at Ft. Sumter was the ... plan
  4. / Southern slave states individually declared their secession from the U.S. and formed the... states
  5. Law / A type of rule in which military commanders are in control and citizens' rights and freedoms are suspended
  6. /Confederacy was fighting a ... war
  7. / The slave states ... the union and formed the Confederacy
  8. / What president won the election in 1860?

20 Clues: / Confederacy President • North economy was based on ... • /Confederacy was fighting a ... war • / South economy was based on... plantation • / What president won the election in 1860? • / Did all Southern states supported the secession? • Sumter / Where The Confederate Artillery opened fire? • / The war had its origin in the factious issue of ... • ...

Civil War 2017-04-20

Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Nickname given to Confederate General Jackson
  2. The Confederate Capitol
  3. Bloodiest day in American History was here
  4. Battle Gave control of Mississippi to the North
  5. Union plan for war
  6. Gun with a grooved barrel
  7. ___________ Proclamation
  8. The reluctant Union General
  9. Battle called the turning point of war
  10. First skirmish of the Civil War was here
Down
  1. Union president
  2. Slave state that borders a free state
  3. The Confederate general
  4. Northern Democrats who opposed the war
  5. Southern plan for war
  6. Reason Lee investigated Gettysburg
  7. Technology increased in the Civil War, but Military_________ did not
  8. Confederate president
  9. Amendment abolishing slavery
  10. The Union general in the West

20 Clues: Union president • Union plan for war • Southern plan for war • Confederate president • The Confederate general • The Confederate Capitol • ___________ Proclamation • Gun with a grooved barrel • The reluctant Union General • Amendment abolishing slavery • The Union general in the West • Reason Lee investigated Gettysburg • Slave state that borders a free state • ...

Civil War 2020-02-13

Civil War crossword puzzle
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  1. A military person lost through death, wounds, injury or sickness
  2. Where the United States Military Academy is located
  3. Major battle in Mississippi where the Union Army defeated the Confederates
  4. An artillery weapon that fires explosive shells
  5. Also known as the North
  6. The president during the Civil War
  7. What amendment ended slavery
  8. An American politician who served as vice president of the Confederate States
  9. To prevent any goods, troops, and weapons from entering Southern states
  10. The branch of military that conducts military operations at sea
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  1. Name used to describe new troops to the military
  2. Also known as the Confederacy
  3. Document that stated all slaves should be set free
  4. Steam propelled warship protected by iron and steel
  5. First vehicle used for transporting wounded soldiers
  6. Where the first battle of the Civil War was fought
  7. The person who assassinated Abraham Lincoln
  8. Military officer responsible for providing quarters
  9. A stretcher used to transport wounded soldiers
  10. Military cap with a flat circular top with a peak of leather or cloth

20 Clues: Also known as the North • What amendment ended slavery • Also known as the Confederacy • The president during the Civil War • The person who assassinated Abraham Lincoln • A stretcher used to transport wounded soldiers • An artillery weapon that fires explosive shells • Name used to describe new troops to the military • Document that stated all slaves should be set free • ...

Civil War 2020-01-20

Civil War crossword puzzle
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  1. New Party that was formed in 1848 when neither presidential candidate would take a stand on slavery
  2. Wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin
  3. What did Uncle Tom's Cabin show about slavery
  4. African Americans and Whites who opposed slavery set up to help runaways escape
  5. African America that sued for his freedom in 1846
  6. What name was given to the laws passes in Congress that contained the
  7. Who did the American party nominate in the presidential election of 1856
  8. Annexation of Texas
  9. What did Douglas call letting settlers in a territory vote on whether to allow slavery
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  1. Who did the Republican party nominate in the presidential election of 1856
  2. The attitude that grew out the differences between the North and the South
  3. a young senator from Illinois that finally resolved the crisis
  4. The main topic of the seven debates between Lincoln and Douglas
  5. Who did the Democratic party nominate in the presidential election of 1856
  6. Proposal that specified that slavery should be prohibited in any lands acquired from Mexico in the Mexican War
  7. who led an attack on Pottawatomie Creek to retaliate for the attack on Lawrence
  8. Clays Proposal
  9. main points of Clay's original plan
  10. Proposes that neither Congress nor a territorial government had the authority to ban slavery
  11. When did Congress pass the Kansas-Nebraska Act
  12. Who said "A house divided against itself cannot stand"

21 Clues: Clays Proposal • Annexation of Texas • Wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin • main points of Clay's original plan • What did Uncle Tom's Cabin show about slavery • When did Congress pass the Kansas-Nebraska Act • African America that sued for his freedom in 1846 • Who said "A house divided against itself cannot stand" • a young senator from Illinois that finally resolved the crisis • ...

Civil War 2021-01-13

Civil War crossword puzzle
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  1. The final major battle of the campaign.
  2. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free.
  3. second costliest battle of the Civil War
  4. small battles and fights with an opposing force.
  5. were a series of battles in which Union forces routed Confederate troops in Tennessee at the battles of Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge during the American Civil War
  6. The battle when Sigel was sent to protect the Bushong area.
  7. holding innocent people to serve you.
  8. drove back General George B. McClellan's Union forces and thwarted the Northern attempt to capture the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia.
  9. Confederate general best known as a commander of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. He commanded the Army of Northern Virginia from 1862 until its surrender in 1865 and earned a reputation as a skilled tactician.
  10. was a major general of the Potomac union forces.
  11. fought mainly for slavery rights
  12. the side of the war the supported slavery and states rights.
  13. was burned on september 26,1864.
  14. also called the Battle of Sharpsburg, occurred on September 17, 1862, at Antietam Creek near Sharpsburg, Maryland.
  15. the side of the civil war the opposed slavery.
  16. where the union cut off suplies to confederacy.
  17. The woman who risked her life to bring food and supplies to the confederacy. founder of Red Cross.
  18. gave the Union control of the Mississippi River in the American Civil War.By having control of the river, Union forces would split the Confederacy in two and control an important route to move men and supplies.
  19. Built to protect charles harbor
  20. Was one of the first battles in the Western Theater of the American Civil War, fought April 6–7, 1862, in southwestern Tennessee.
  21. the U.S. abiding law maker and order keeper.
  22. fought December 11–15, 1862, in and around
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  1. the branch of knowledge concerned with the production, consumption, and transfer of wealth
  2. the form of legislative bodies that makes and assists the president with making laws
  3. a Confederacy general who lead the attack on Fort Sumter
  4. the fort named after the 5th president
  5. the main union general that we learn about.
  6. the bloodest battle of the civil war
  7. 16th president
  8. was a huge victory for the Confederacy and General Robert E. Lee during the Civil War, though it is also famous for being the battle in which Confederate General Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson was mortally wounded.
  9. people who don't choose sides.
  10. when the general Ulysses S. Grant comissioned for all of the forces to advance at the enemey.
  11. Confederate general in the American Civil War, one of its most skillful tacticians in 1861.
  12. wepons; guns, pisotols, cannons, gunpoweder...
  13. American politician who served as the president of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1865.
  14. Middle ground of the Civil war; split in half.
  15. one out of 2 forts made to protect the Hampton Roads Harbor
  16. The place of final surrender; Mclean house.
  17. the ability to do something while abiding the law.
  18. people who disagree on the terms of political disputes.
  19. not being bound or unjustly owned.

41 Clues: 16th president • people who don't choose sides. • Built to protect charles harbor • fought mainly for slavery rights • was burned on september 26,1864. • not being bound or unjustly owned. • the bloodest battle of the civil war • holding innocent people to serve you. • the fort named after the 5th president • The final major battle of the campaign. • ...

Civil War 2021-02-05

Civil War crossword puzzle
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  1. Influential southern woman who kept a diary of her life
  2. First battle of the Civil War
  3. Enslaved African American who delivered a confederate ship to the union
  4. Were paid less than White soldiers,former enslaved would travel North with the army
  5. Wrote love letters to his wife and was killed during First Bull run
  6. Highest military and prestigious decoration
  7. Document that Declared all slaves in the Confederate states free
  8. President of the Confederacy
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  1. An all black regiment that fought for the North
  2. President of the Union
  3. The most important ship to the confederacy, was a blockade runner
  4. A man who paid George Beniski to serve in the Seventy-Sixth New York Infantry in his place
  5. Required to pick or scrape lint, worked in ammunition factories, collected food
  6. More people, more factories, more railroads
  7. Home field advantage, better generals
  8. The name of the South during the Civil War
  9. The battle of SC's port royal sound
  10. Confederate Submarine
  11. Name of the Union strategy to defeat the Confederacy
  12. The name of the North during the Civil War

20 Clues: Confederate Submarine • President of the Union • President of the Confederacy • First battle of the Civil War • The battle of SC's port royal sound • Home field advantage, better generals • The name of the South during the Civil War • The name of the North during the Civil War • More people, more factories, more railroads • Highest military and prestigious decoration • ...

Civil war 2021-03-18

Civil war crossword puzzle
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  1. First state to leave the Union
  2. Type of cabin where Lincoln grew up
  3. Word for when a state left the union
  4. Short and famous speech given by Abraham Lincoln
  5. The North was also called by this "uniting" name
  6. Union General who later became president
  7. Jefferson Davis was president of this southern government
  8. This state was home to Richmond, one of the capitals of the Confederacy
  9. Another name for a big farm in the south
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  1. Vice President to Lincoln
  2. These people were freed by the Emancipation Proclamation
  3. Theatre where Lincoln was shot
  4. Where did the Civil War began
  5. Civil ____
  6. Union General at the Battle of Gettysburg
  7. He marched to Savannah
  8. Fought the North
  9. Assassin of Lincoln
  10. State burnt by General Sherman and his army
  11. Battle of Bull ___
  12. President during the Civil War
  13. Color of the confederate uniforms
  14. Bloody battle fought near Sharpsburg, Maryland

23 Clues: Civil ____ • Fought the North • Battle of Bull ___ • Assassin of Lincoln • He marched to Savannah • Vice President to Lincoln • Where did the Civil War began • Theatre where Lincoln was shot • First state to leave the Union • President during the Civil War • Color of the confederate uniforms • Type of cabin where Lincoln grew up • Word for when a state left the union • ...

Civil war 2021-04-28

Civil war crossword puzzle
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  1. Broke the Missouri Compromise
  2. Fighting for slavery
  3. parting from a country
  4. Who surrendered to Grant
  5. War between Union & Confederate
  6. A person wanted t to abolish slavery
  7. Attempt to rebuild South into the North
  8. where was the turning point
  9. Where was lee turned in?
  10. what ended The battle of Gettysburg
  11. March from Georgia to Atlanta
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  1. Jackson nickname for standing his spot
  2. Fighting against slavery
  3. A slave who sued for freedom
  4. Compromise for equal slave and free states
  5. what was the main causes of death
  6. Who was the president during the Civil war
  7. To ban or remove
  8. lincoln's address to the people to fought in the battle of Gettysburg
  9. Pulling people into war
  10. Treatment as a property

21 Clues: To ban or remove • Fighting for slavery • parting from a country • Pulling people into war • Treatment as a property • Fighting against slavery • Who surrendered to Grant • Where was lee turned in? • where was the turning point • A slave who sued for freedom • Broke the Missouri Compromise • March from Georgia to Atlanta • War between Union & Confederate • ...

Civil War 2021-09-10

Civil War crossword puzzle
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  1. Someone wanted to get rid of slavery.
  2. the 16th president of the US.
  3. group of states that seceded from the US.
  4. Nickname of general Thomas Jonathan Jackson.
  5. The name of the battle, that was the turning point of the war.
  6. The political party who wanted the spread of slavery to territories.
  7. Name of the bloodiest battle of the war.
  8. Name of the confederate president.
  9. Slave states that remained in the union.
  10. A person who is loyal to the federal government.
  11. the act of a state leaving from its nation.
  12. A region or area where fighting takes place.
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  1. Group of states that remained part of the US.
  2. Commanding general of the Union armies.
  3. Freedom from slavery.
  4. an iron ship used during the War.
  5. The political party that wanted to prevent the spread of slavery to the territories.
  6. Confederate general, who commanded the army of Virginia.
  7. The gettysburg ___ was given by abraham lincoln, to inspire the north.
  8. A long gun that soldiers shot from the shoulder.

20 Clues: Freedom from slavery. • the 16th president of the US. • an iron ship used during the War. • Name of the confederate president. • Someone wanted to get rid of slavery. • Commanding general of the Union armies. • Name of the bloodiest battle of the war. • Slave states that remained in the union. • group of states that seceded from the US. • ...

Civil War 2021-05-31

Civil War crossword puzzle
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  1. A very important battle regarding the outcome of the war.
  2. Did Europe get involved with the war?
  3. General that was cautious with his troops.
  4. Year and month in which Lincoln is elected.
  5. Name of the very first battle of the American Civil War
  6. Side that one at Gettysburg
  7. First state to secede from the Union.
  8. The shape of the defense line that General Meade and his troops took on Day 2 at Gettysburg
  9. What former slaves gained in the 1868
  10. The name of a failed attack by Confederate troops on the last day at Gettysburg
  11. The broad name of the events that took place after the Civil War
  12. Side that performed better in the first year of the war.
  13. A Major Battle of the 19th Century.
  14. A Famous Union General who was named after a Native American Chief and Peacekeeper
  15. The new and best guns of the Civil War era.
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  1. Occupation of the man who killed Lincoln
  2. Former President of the CSA (Confederate States of America)
  3. What was the very important document that President Lincoln released regarding Slaves.
  4. Laws and regulations passed by Southern States to maintain White Supremacy
  5. Number of days that the first Union troops were volunteers for.
  6. The location in which President Lincoln was assassinated
  7. One of the most important and intelligent generals of his time who excelled in Horsemanship while in college.
  8. Man who assassinated Abraham Lincoln
  9. Often regarded as the Confederacy's greatest general.
  10. 16th President of the United States.
  11. What the 13th Amendment banned

26 Clues: Side that one at Gettysburg • What the 13th Amendment banned • A Major Battle of the 19th Century. • Man who assassinated Abraham Lincoln • 16th President of the United States. • Did Europe get involved with the war? • First state to secede from the Union. • What former slaves gained in the 1868 • Occupation of the man who killed Lincoln • ...

Civil War 2021-05-31

Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. First state to secede from the Union.
  2. Year and month in which Lincoln is elected.
  3. One of the most important and intelligent generals of his time who excelled in Horsemanship while in college.
  4. What was the very important document that President Lincoln released regarding Slaves.
  5. The location in which President Lincoln was assassinated
  6. A Major Battle of the 19th Century.
  7. Often regarded as the Confederacy's greatest general.
  8. Side that performed better in the first year of the war.
  9. The name of a failed attack by Confederate troops on the last day at Gettysburg
  10. What former slaves gained in the 1868
  11. Side that one at Gettysburg
  12. Man who assassinated Abraham Lincoln
  13. Laws and regulations passed by Southern States to maintain White Supremacy
  14. What the 13th Amendment banned
  15. Number of days that the first Union troops were volunteers for.
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  1. General that was cautious with his troops.
  2. The new and best guns of the Civil War era.
  3. The broad name of the events that took place after the Civil War
  4. The shape of the defense line that General Meade and his troops took on Day 2 at Gettysburg
  5. A Famous Union General who was named after a Native American Chief and Peacekeeper
  6. 16th President of the United States.
  7. Former President of the CSA (Confederate States of America)
  8. A very important battle regarding the outcome of the war.
  9. Did Europe get involved with the war?
  10. Name of the very first battle of the American Civil War
  11. Occupation of the man who killed Lincoln

26 Clues: Side that one at Gettysburg • What the 13th Amendment banned • A Major Battle of the 19th Century. • 16th President of the United States. • Man who assassinated Abraham Lincoln • First state to secede from the Union. • Did Europe get involved with the war? • What former slaves gained in the 1868 • Occupation of the man who killed Lincoln • ...

Civil War 2021-05-31

Civil War crossword puzzle
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  1. Name of the very first battle of the American Civil War
  2. Year and month in which Lincoln is elected.
  3. Former President of the CSA (Confederate States of America)
  4. First state to secede from the Union.
  5. The broad name of the events that took place after the Civil War
  6. Laws and regulations passed by Southern States to maintain White Supremacy
  7. Number of days that the first Union troops were volunteers for.
  8. One of the most important and intelligent generals of his time who excelled in Horsemanship while in college.
  9. The name of a failed attack by Confederate troops on the last day at Gettysburg
  10. General that was cautious with his troops.
  11. The new and best guns of the Civil War era.
  12. 16th President of the United States.
  13. Side that performed better in the first year of the war.
  14. Man who assassinated Abraham Lincoln
  15. Side that one at Gettysburg
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  1. What the 13th Amendment banned
  2. What was the very important document that President Lincoln released regarding Slaves.
  3. The shape of the defense line that General Meade and his troops took on Day 2 at Gettysburg
  4. Often regarded as the Confederacy's greatest general.
  5. A Famous Union General who was named after a Native American Chief and Peacekeeper
  6. A very important battle regarding the outcome of the war.
  7. The location in which President Lincoln was assassinated
  8. Did Europe get involved with the war?
  9. A Major Battle of the 19th Century.
  10. What former slaves gained in the 1868
  11. Occupation of the man who killed Lincoln

26 Clues: Side that one at Gettysburg • What the 13th Amendment banned • A Major Battle of the 19th Century. • 16th President of the United States. • Man who assassinated Abraham Lincoln • First state to secede from the Union. • Did Europe get involved with the war? • What former slaves gained in the 1868 • Occupation of the man who killed Lincoln • ...

Civil War 2021-10-08

Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Union military post in South Carolina which was taken over by the Confederacy in 1861.
  2. Place in Virginia where John Brown led a raid on a federal arsenal.
  3. A law that allowed voters in Kansas and Nebraska to choose whether to allow slavery or not.
  4. southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861.
  5. Courthouse
  6. War between the North and South.
  7. Speech given by Abraham Lincoln at the dedication of the Gettysburg National Cemetery*His three minute speech inspired the North to keep fighting for a united country and the end of slavery.
  8. A series of agreements passed by Congress in 1820-1821 to maintain the balance of power between slave states and free states. Missouri was admitted as a slave state and Maine was admitted as a free state to keep the balance of powe
  9. ship made of iron
  10. Union strategy for winning by "squeezing" on all sides* The Union blocked the South's coastline and Mississippi River to stop movement of people and supplies in the South.
  11. where Civil War ended on April 9, 1865, when Lee surrendered to Grant.
  12. President of the United States of America during the Civil War; born in Kentucky; helped preserve the United States by leading the country in the defeat of the Confederacy; against slavery; freed slaves; assassinated by John Wilkes Booth
  13. U.S. Supreme Court decision which determined that slaves (Dred Scott) could not sue in federal court because they did not have the rights of citizenship.
  14. Novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe that showed the horrors of slavery to Northerners.
  15. Rapid-fire gun capable of shooting 600 rounds per minute.
  16. Turning point of the Civil War that made it clear the North would win.
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  1. of Antietam
  2. General of the Confederacy considered to be one of the greatest generals of all time*He was against slavery but didn't want to fight against his home state of Virginia. He also believed in states' rights.
  3. Proclamation
  4. The fall of Vicksburg, Mississippi, to General Ulysses S. Grant's army on July 4th, 1863, after 48 days of seige
  5. Condition of being owned by, and forced to work for someone else.
  6. Slave states that remained in the Union (Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, and Delaware).*Lincoln did not call for abolition (free all slaves) at the beginning of the war because these states had slaves and would fight for the Union.
  7. for the South; got his nickname because he refused to retreat during battle - he held his position like a stone wall.
  8. To leave or withdraw
  9. War battle in which 25,000 men were killed or wounded
  10. freeing slaves in Union-controlled Confederate states
  11. The march of an army of 62,000 men from Atlanta toward Savannah, Georgia which left a path of almost total destruction. *It is often cited as the first example of total war.
  12. United States (especially the northern states during the American Civil War)

28 Clues: Courthouse • of Antietam • Proclamation • ship made of iron • To leave or withdraw • War between the North and South. • War battle in which 25,000 men were killed or wounded • freeing slaves in Union-controlled Confederate states • Rapid-fire gun capable of shooting 600 rounds per minute. • southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861. • ...

Civil War 2021-10-07

Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. a region where a battle is being (or has been) fought
  2. Line A boundary or border that split the free states from the slave states. It went between Pennsylvania to the north and Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware to the south.
  3. an offensive against an enemy
  4. Term used to describe people who supported the union.
  5. A cap worn by Civil War soldiers.
  6. A large farm in the southern United States. Before the Civil War many of the workers on plantations were slaves.
  7. Ankle high shoe worn by soldiers during the Civil War.
  8. Soldier that is wounded or killed during battle.
  9. Large caliber firearms like canons and mortars
  10. related operations aimed at achieving a particular goal
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  1. of or occurring between or among citizens of the state
  2. An army of citizens used during emergencies.
  3. the act of governing or exercising authority
  4. When someone is murdered for political reasons.
  5. An attempt to stop people and supplies from going in or out of a port.
  6. The northern states of the United States, also called the Union.
  7. Nickname for the south
  8. A nickname for people from the North as well as Union soldiers.
  9. Term meaning "before war"
  10. Soldiers that fight and travel by foot.
  11. troops trained to fight on horseback

21 Clues: Nickname for the south • Term meaning "before war" • an offensive against an enemy • A cap worn by Civil War soldiers. • troops trained to fight on horseback • Soldiers that fight and travel by foot. • An army of citizens used during emergencies. • the act of governing or exercising authority • Large caliber firearms like canons and mortars • ...

Civil war 2022-06-01

Civil war crossword puzzle
Across
  1. an uphill battle against the confederacy. Burnsides fought with a knowing disadvantage and retreated, causing the war to extend.
  2. another term for abolitionist
  3. A term used to describe marauding or foraging soldiers.
  4. took shilohs place as bloodiest battle in history, where stonewall was shot by his own men and died within the next two weeks
  5. Nickname of Confederate general Thomas J. Jackson.
  6. single bloodiest day in american history to today(roughly 6,000 dead, 16000 wounded) impactfull because 1)because the union won, britain decided not to get involved in the war, 2) it caused lincoln to change his mind(demolish slavery instead of just stoping the spread)
  7. Blue Flag” : very popular Confederate song named after the first flag of the Confederacy(one white star on a blue background) The lyrics listed each state in the order they removed themselves from the Union.
  8. sumter: Kickoff battle for the civl war
  9. : one of the most incompetant leaders in american history
  10. Grant: the man who lead the Union side in the battle of Shiloh, the 18th US President
  11. the bloodiest battle in American history at the time. Means place of peace in hebrew.
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  1. battle of Bull Run: the Confederate side lead by Jckson Stonewall, The Defeat for the north made them realize they needed a larger, better trained army.
  2. confederate capital
  3. the Northern
  4. states: what the southern states are called, pro-slavery
  5. Pond: Legend that there were so many casualties, the nearby pond was stained red
  6. Someone who wishes to abolish or get rid of slavery.
  7. Union general who led during the battle of Chanslorville.
  8. States: The states of Maryland, Delaware, Kentucky, and Missouri. Although these states did not officially join the Confederacy, many of their citizens supported the South.
  9. term used to describe the United States before the outbreak of the Civil War.

20 Clues: the Northern • confederate capital • another term for abolitionist • sumter: Kickoff battle for the civl war • Nickname of Confederate general Thomas J. Jackson. • Someone who wishes to abolish or get rid of slavery. • A term used to describe marauding or foraging soldiers. • states: what the southern states are called, pro-slavery • ...

Civil War 2022-05-23

Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. President of Confederacy during the war
  2. 16th president of the US
  3. Sewed uniforms and made other supplies
  4. The act of rejecting a federal law
  5. Crop that transformed the country
  6. To leave
  7. A warship covered in iron plates for protection
  8. A person who is forced to obey their owner
  9. A speech given by Abraham Lincoln after the Battle of Gettysburg
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  1. A bullet with a hollow base that caused many casualties
  2. The bloodiest 1-day battle of the war
  3. Assassinated Abraham Lincoln
  4. Someone who wanted to end slavery
  5. Issued by Abraham Lincoln, this declared that all slaves in the Confederate states would be free
  6. What the North was called
  7. The Confederate attack on this fort marked the start of the war
  8. What the South was called
  9. This isolates an area of importance of the enemy's
  10. The bloodiest battle of the war (3 days)
  11. An agricultural farm that used slave labor

20 Clues: To leave • 16th president of the US • What the North was called • What the South was called • Assassinated Abraham Lincoln • Someone who wanted to end slavery • Crop that transformed the country • The act of rejecting a federal law • The bloodiest 1-day battle of the war • Sewed uniforms and made other supplies • President of Confederacy during the war • ...

Civil War 2022-05-31

Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Ankle high shoe for soldiers
  2. Opposite of Southerners
  3. A name for the south
  4. The side of a military unit
  5. To contact allies
  6. A nickname for northerners
  7. Reason for the civil war
  8. Attempt to block someone
  9. A serious disagreement
  10. To get rid of; Destroy
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  1. Brutally kill someone
  2. Gun with blade on end
  3. Give permission formally
  4. Crackers eaten by soldiers
  5. Type of war
  6. Where the war started
  7. Someone who supports union
  8. Cap warn by the soldiers
  9. Opposite of Northerners
  10. An injured or killed soldier

20 Clues: Type of war • To contact allies • A name for the south • Brutally kill someone • Gun with blade on end • Where the war started • A serious disagreement • To get rid of; Destroy • Opposite of Southerners • Opposite of Northerners • Give permission formally • Cap warn by the soldiers • Reason for the civil war • Attempt to block someone • Crackers eaten by soldiers • Someone who supports union • ...

Civil War 2022-06-02

Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. a.k.a. "Battle of Sharpsburg";this was the deadliest one-day battle in American Military history
  2. repeated outbreaks of violence between proslavery and anit slavery
  3. A.K.A. "Fighting Joe";The defeat from the Battle of Chancellorsville led to his resignation
  4. ordered the first shots of the Civil War during the bombardment of Fort Sumter (April 12-14, 1861)
  5. this caused the border states to secede from the United States
  6. Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, Missouri, West Virginia
  7. this group left the union because Licoln, who opposed the expansion of slavery, was elected president
  8. Northen army;they were fighting to get the states back that seceded
  9. He broke through confederate lines at the Battle of Spotsylvania court house;He lead his corps for Siege of Petersburg
  10. the people decide for themselves if they should be a free or slave state
  11. he was the general of the Manassas, Antietam, Fredricksburg and Chancellorsville Battles
  12. he screened Confederate positions and intercepted Union battle plans
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  1. he was elected as the 18th president;he led Union armies to victory
  2. it was issued by Abraham Licoln that all slaves should be let free
  3. the first shots of the Civil War were shot here
  4. a decade long, fight for freedom by a black enslaved man
  5. this was a victory for confederacy;in this battle Lee faced an army twice as big as his and still won
  6. He led the Union armies through the south (Georgia and the Carolina's);he produced revolutionary ideas of "total warfare"
  7. got the nickname "young Napoleon" and "Little Mac";He was a major general during the Civil War
  8. Licoln was elected and it caused 7 southern states to secede and make the confederate states
  9. known as the "deciding battle in the Civil War"
  10. he was the commander of the Northern Virginia army;he produced the most successful Southern army during the Civil War
  11. the first major land battle of the Civil War
  12. he organized an army of Rhode Island militiamen in 1861;he had one of the first units to arrive in Washington D.C.
  13. an act the replaced the Missouri Compromise and it allowed popular sovereignty

25 Clues: the first major land battle of the Civil War • the first shots of the Civil War were shot here • known as the "deciding battle in the Civil War" • Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, Missouri, West Virginia • a decade long, fight for freedom by a black enslaved man • this caused the border states to secede from the United States • ...

Civil War 2022-05-26

Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Gun used by troops
  2. Symbol of a country
  3. long metal blade
  4. Ammo used by the soldiers
  5. Used to send messages
  6. An instrument used in war
  7. Pro-Slavery
  8. Transported good to the front lines
  9. Used early in the war b y confederates
  10. tags used to identify soldiers
  11. Mapped out the battlefield
  12. High rank in armed forces
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  1. Used to separate cotton from its seeds
  2. Used as rations for soldiers
  3. Fight between two sides
  4. state of being a slave
  5. Only used a few times
  6. Men who fought the war
  7. A vessel
  8. Anti- Slavery

20 Clues: A vessel • Pro-Slavery • Anti- Slavery • long metal blade • Gun used by troops • Symbol of a country • Used to send messages • Only used a few times • state of being a slave • Men who fought the war • Fight between two sides • Ammo used by the soldiers • An instrument used in war • High rank in armed forces • Mapped out the battlefield • Used as rations for soldiers • ...

CIVIL WAR 2017-01-16

CIVIL WAR crossword puzzle
Across
  1. MARCHED THRU GEORGIA DESTROYING EVERYTHING
  2. PRESIDENT THAT SUPPORTED THE NORTH
  3. UNSUCCESFULLY SUED FOR HIS AND HIS FAMILIES FREEDOM
  4. NAME FOR THE NORTHERN STATES DURING THE WAR
  5. STRATGEY TO DESTROY ALL VALUABLE RESOURCES OF OPPONENT
  6. BOOK THAT EXPOSED SOUTHERN SLAVERY
  7. FAMOUS AURTHOR OF UNCLE TOMS CABIN
  8. REVOLUTION THAT CHANGED METHOD OF MANUFACTURING
  9. PLAN TO DEFEAT THE SOUTH
  10. LOCATION FOR LINCOLNS FAMOUS SPEECH
  11. GENERAL FOR THE CONFEDERACY
  12. FIRST BATTLE IN CIVIL WAR
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  1. THE FREEING OF SOMEONE FROM SLAVERY
  2. UNION GENERAL THAT LATER BECAME PRESIDENT
  3. WAS LINCOLNS VICE PRESIDENT
  4. RAN AGAINST LINCOLN FOR PRESIDENT
  5. NAME OF SOUTHERN STATES DURING CIVIL WAR
  6. WERE NORTH AND SOUTH ENDED WAR
  7. FINAL PLACE OF MAJOR MILITARY ACTION
  8. PEOPLE THAT ARE OWNED BY OTHER PEOPLE

20 Clues: PLAN TO DEFEAT THE SOUTH • FIRST BATTLE IN CIVIL WAR • WAS LINCOLNS VICE PRESIDENT • GENERAL FOR THE CONFEDERACY • WERE NORTH AND SOUTH ENDED WAR • RAN AGAINST LINCOLN FOR PRESIDENT • PRESIDENT THAT SUPPORTED THE NORTH • BOOK THAT EXPOSED SOUTHERN SLAVERY • FAMOUS AURTHOR OF UNCLE TOMS CABIN • THE FREEING OF SOMEONE FROM SLAVERY • LOCATION FOR LINCOLNS FAMOUS SPEECH • ...

Civil war 2017-01-28

Civil war crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Crackers that the soldiers ate
  2. The effort by the North to keep ships from entering or leaving Southern ports.
  3. To free the slaves
  4. To admit defeat and give up in the face of overwhelming odds
  5. The cruel killing of a number of helpless or unresisting people.
  6. A leather shoe, similar to an ankle-high boot, issued to soldiers during the Civil War
  7. A soldier who was wounded, killed, or missing in action.
  8. Round container used to carry water; made of wood or tin and carried over the shoulder by a strap
  9. A disease caused by lack of ascorbic acid (found in fresh fruits and vegetables)
  10. Blocking the supply lines and escape routes of a city to force it to surrender
Down
  1. Someone who wants to get rid of slavery
  2. states The states of Maryland, Delaware, Kentucky, and Missouri. Although these states did not officially join the Confederacy, many of their citizens supported the South.
  3. Land within the mainland boundaries of the country that had not yet become a state
  4. A place that manufactures
  5. The southern U.S party
  6. A large armored ship
  7. A place where weapons and other military supplies are stored.
  8. A smoothbore firearm fired from the shoulder
  9. The forced labor of African Americans
  10. Northern U.S party
  11. To rush towards the enemy.

21 Clues: To free the slaves • Northern U.S party • A large armored ship • The southern U.S party • A place that manufactures • To rush towards the enemy. • Crackers that the soldiers ate • The forced labor of African Americans • Someone who wants to get rid of slavery • A smoothbore firearm fired from the shoulder • A soldier who was wounded, killed, or missing in action. • ...

civil war 2017-10-26

civil war crossword puzzle
Across
  1. abrahamlincoln
  2. slavery
  3. civilwar
  4. fugitive
  5. south
  6. confederate
  7. soldier
  8. cotton
  9. gettysburg
  10. davis
Down
  1. harriettubman
  2. abolitionist
  3. union
  4. yankees
  5. rights
  6. petersburg
  7. freedom
  8. states
  9. rebels
  10. north
  11. bullrun

21 Clues: union • south • north • davis • rights • states • cotton • rebels • slavery • yankees • freedom • soldier • bullrun • civilwar • fugitive • petersburg • gettysburg • confederate • abolitionist • harriettubman • abrahamlincoln

Civil War 2018-02-08

Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. to formally give up territory or power
  2. to give a person a job because he helped a person get elected
  3. a specialized vocabulary
  4. the older wiser person who helps somebody
  5. political cooperation based on shared geography
  6. the state existing before the war
  7. when a person is unwillingly forced into another nation’s military
  8. a place that has a large amount of things
  9. a person who gets help by an older more experienced person
  10. the belief that government should not restrict people’s economic activities
  11. to take a truth and exaggerate it to insult a person’s character
  12. to make worse
  13. to stop; to end
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  1. sovereignty the people in a place vote to decide an issue for that place
  2. Hemisphere North Central and South America and all its islands
  3. the permission to do something because of an election
  4. when part of a nation tries to leave and start its own nation
  5. when a bank closes because it has no money
  6. the right to vote
  7. to control every part of something
  8. a person who borrows a large sum of money and invest it in something very risky
  9. to formally approve of something

22 Clues: to make worse • to stop; to end • the right to vote • a specialized vocabulary • to formally approve of something • the state existing before the war • to control every part of something • to formally give up territory or power • the older wiser person who helps somebody • a place that has a large amount of things • when a bank closes because it has no money • ...

civil war 2018-01-26

civil war crossword puzzle
Across
  1. A leather shoe
  2. A stretcher
  3. confederacy
  4. a leave from duty
  5. actively attacking someone
  6. to rush towards the enemy
  7. a branch of military
  8. loyal to confederate states
  9. a solid object shot from a cannon
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  1. A crushing defeat
  2. to attack unexpectedly
  3. crop grown to be sold for cash
  4. lowest rank
  5. a minor fight
  6. a two wheeled cart
  7. a large gap in a wall by artillery or mine
  8. Union
  9. loyal to the government
  10. soldier standing guard
  11. A very large group of soldiers

20 Clues: Union • lowest rank • A stretcher • confederacy • a minor fight • A leather shoe • A crushing defeat • a leave from duty • a two wheeled cart • a branch of military • to attack unexpectedly • soldier standing guard • loyal to the government • to rush towards the enemy • actively attacking someone • loyal to confederate states • crop grown to be sold for cash • A very large group of soldiers • ...

Civil War 2018-05-31

Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. The Emancipation Proclamation changed the Civil War into a struggle for ________.
  2. Lincols strategy to cut off the South's supply of imports/exports is called a ___.
  3. an all out attack aimed to destroy an enemy's army, its resources, and its people's will to fight.
  4. slave states that did no secede
  5. Another word for free
  6. The bloodies conflict in the US ever.
  7. Freed slaves in the areas that were fighting the Union
  8. This Union General Marched to the Sea and ordered the burning of Atlanta
  9. The confederate attack of a USA fort that led to the initiator of the Civil War
  10. A former store clerk who successfully led the Union troops in the west.
Down
  1. The south was called the ____.
  2. Due to industrialization, the North had many ___ which would give them an advantage over the south.
  3. The general of the Union in the East who was known for his very cautious approach
  4. A major general of the Confederacy
  5. a type of rule in which the military is in charge and citzens' rights are suspended
  6. the north and south became more focused on their regions interests, this is called
  7. The first state to sceded
  8. This general got his nickname due to his solid stance during the First Battle of Bull Run
  9. The military term for persons killed, wounded, or missing in action
  10. Warships that were covered with protective iron plates
  11. This battle took place in 1863 in Pennsylvania, it was a Union vicotry resulting in large Confederate casualties. President Lincoln also gave a famous speech here.
  12. The north was called the ___.

22 Clues: Another word for free • The first state to sceded • The north was called the ___. • The south was called the ____. • slave states that did no secede • A major general of the Confederacy • The bloodies conflict in the US ever. • Freed slaves in the areas that were fighting the Union • Warships that were covered with protective iron plates • ...

Civil War 2019-05-15

Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. From the North. Specializes in industry.
  2. Occurring between citizens in a nation.
  3. Cannons used for warfare on land.
  4. Soldiers on horseback.
  5. From the South. Specializes in plantations.
  6. A military post where troops are stationed.
  7. A violent uprising against a government.
  8. Withdrawing or moving away from a battle.
  9. Leaving the union.
  10. To recruit for military service.
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  1. 16th president.
  2. Continuous attack, usually from artillery.
  3. To relinquish or give up.
  4. Foot soldiers.
  5. A period of irregular or unplanned fighting.
  6. Making a definite result.
  7. Wealth of a country or region.
  8. A disorderly retreat.
  9. Owning slaves.
  10. A soft, white and fibrous substance. Mostly produced in the South in the Confederacy.

20 Clues: Foot soldiers. • Owning slaves. • 16th president. • Leaving the union. • A disorderly retreat. • Soldiers on horseback. • To relinquish or give up. • Making a definite result. • Wealth of a country or region. • To recruit for military service. • Cannons used for warfare on land. • Occurring between citizens in a nation. • From the North. Specializes in industry. • ...

Civil War 2019-05-15

Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. 16th president.
  2. Continuous attack, usually from artillery.
  3. From the South. Specializes in plantations.
  4. To recruit for military service.
  5. To relinquish or give up.
  6. A military post where troops are stationed.
  7. Occurring between citizens in a nation.
  8. Wealth of a country or region.
Down
  1. A violent uprising against a government.
  2. Owning slaves.
  3. From the North. Specializes in industry.
  4. Leaving the union.
  5. Foot soldiers.
  6. Cannons used for warfare on land.
  7. Making a definite result.
  8. A period of irregular or unplanned fighting.
  9. Soldiers on horseback.
  10. Withdrawing or moving away from a battle.
  11. A soft, white and fibrous substance.
  12. A disorderly retreat.

20 Clues: Owning slaves. • Foot soldiers. • 16th president. • Leaving the union. • A disorderly retreat. • Soldiers on horseback. • Making a definite result. • To relinquish or give up. • Wealth of a country or region. • To recruit for military service. • Cannons used for warfare on land. • A soft, white and fibrous substance. • Occurring between citizens in a nation. • ...

civil war 2019-10-09

civil war crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Compromise/A series of agreements passed by Congress in 1820-1821 to maintain the balance of power between slave states and free states. Missouri was admitted as a slave state and Maine was admitted as a free state to keep the balance of power.
  2. three minute speech inspired the North to keep fighting for a united country and the end of slavery.
  3. Tom's Cabin/Novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe that showed the horrors of slavery to Northerners.
  4. of Gettysburg/Turning point of the Civil War that made it clear the North would win.
  5. Act/A law that allowed voters in Kansas and Nebraska to choose whether to allow slavery or not.
  6. states/Slave states that remained in the Union (Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, and Delaware).
  7. Scott Decision/U.S. Supreme Court decision which determined that slaves (Dred Scott) could not sue in federal court because they did not have the rights of citizenship.
  8. Davis/President of the Confederacy; born in Kentucky; for slavery; believed states had the right to leave the Union
  9. Proclamation/
  10. for the South; got his nickname because he refused to retreat during battle - he held his position like a stone wall.
  11. freeing slaves in Union-controlled Confederate states
  12. Address/Speech given by Abraham Lincoln at the dedication of the Gettysburg National Cemetery
  13. United States (especially the northern states during the American Civil War)
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  1. Ferry/Place in Virginia where John Brown led a raid on a federal arsenal.
  2. southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861.
  3. of being owned by, and forced to work for someone else.
  4. stopped the South's advance in the North
  5. Southern states seceded from the Union in 1860 which precipitated the Civil War.
  6. leave or withdraw
  7. Sumter/Union military post in South Carolina which was taken over by the Confederacy in 1861.
  8. erupted when people from Missouri crossed into Kansas to vote for slavery then went back to Missouri
  9. clad/ship made of iron
  10. Lincoln/President of the United States of America during the Civil War; born in Kentucky; helped preserve the United States by leading the country in the defeat of the Confederacy; against slavery; freed slaves; assassinated by John Wilkes Booth
  11. did not call for abolition (free all slaves) at the beginning of the war because these states had slaves and would fight for the Union.

24 Clues: Proclamation/ • leave or withdraw • clad/ship made of iron • stopped the South's advance in the North • freeing slaves in Union-controlled Confederate states • of being owned by, and forced to work for someone else. • southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861. • Ferry/Place in Virginia where John Brown led a raid on a federal arsenal. • ...

Civil War 2019-10-16

Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. served as the 18th president of the United States from 1869 to 1877
  2. something formed by two or more things
  3. an American abolitionist and political activist
  4. also called field surgery and later combat casualty care
  5. is a steam-propelled warship protected by iron or steel armor plates
  6. American and Confederate soldier, best known as a commander of the Confederate States Army
  7. was an American soldier, businessman, educator, and author
  8. served as a Confederate general during the American Civil War
  9. the largest of three Cherokee federally recognized tribes in the United States
  10. was an American soldier, civil engineer, railroad executive, and politician
  11. is part of the Lynchburg Metropolitan Statistical Area
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  1. It’s known as the site of a key Civil War battle
  2. a borough and town in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania
  3. an African-American abolitionist and women's rights activist
  4. served as the 16th president of the United States from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865
  5. he first major battle of the American Civil War and was a Confederate victory
  6. an American abolitionist and author
  7. an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman
  8. also known as the Battle of Sharpsburg, particularly in the southern United States
  9. a particular form of journalism that employs images in order to tell a news story
  10. a type of muzzle-loading spin-stabilized bullet for rifled muskets
  11. served as the only President of the Confederate States of America from 1861 to 1865
  12. also known as the Battle of Pittsburg Landing
  13. an American abolitionist
  14. pioneering American nurse who founded the American Red Cross

25 Clues: an American abolitionist • an American abolitionist and author • something formed by two or more things • also known as the Battle of Pittsburg Landing • an American abolitionist and political activist • It’s known as the site of a key Civil War battle • a borough and town in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania • is part of the Lynchburg Metropolitan Statistical Area • ...

Civil War 2019-10-16

Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. What had a population was 1,733 at the 2010 census?
  2. What War fought April 6–7, 1862, in southwestern Tennessee?
  3. Who escaped from slavery in Maryland?
  4. What also known as the First Battle of Manassas?
  5. Who is best known for her novel Uncle Tom's Cabin?
  6. Who was a Union General for the Civil War?
  7. Who advocated the use of armed insurrection to overthrow the institution of slavery in the United States?
  8. What was also known as the Battle of Sharpsburg?
  9. Infantry what was Robert Gould Shaw the leader of?
  10. What was located in Tahlequah, Oklahoma?
  11. who served as the 16th president of the United States?
  12. What was Carol Szathmari part of inventing?
Down
  1. Town in MAssachusetts.
  2. Who escaped slavery with her infant daughter to freedom in 1826?
  3. Who was the 18th president of the United States?
  4. What flattened out and/or splintered whin contact is made?
  5. Who was nicknamed Young Napoleon in the Civil War?
  6. What is protected by iron or steel armor plates?
  7. who served as the only President of the Confederate States of America?
  8. What is also called field surgery?
  9. Who died of pneumonia?
  10. Who was born January 19,1807?
  11. Who was first called Manasses by the South in 1861?
  12. Who made some 13 missions to rescue approximately 70 enslaved people?
  13. What is a city in western Mississippi?

25 Clues: Town in MAssachusetts. • Who died of pneumonia? • Who was born January 19,1807? • What is also called field surgery? • Who escaped from slavery in Maryland? • What is a city in western Mississippi? • What was located in Tahlequah, Oklahoma? • Who was a Union General for the Civil War? • What was Carol Szathmari part of inventing? • ...

Civil War 2023-05-04

Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Confederates.
  2. Abraham Lincolns wife.
  3. Fought like a wall.
  4. Congress passed the thirteenth amendment which was _______.
  5. ______ all enslaved A.A.
  6. Was known as the conductor.
  7. Reformer for prisoners and people with disabilaties.
  8. Confederate general.
  9. Unioners.
  10. Confederate President.
  11. Union General.
  12. Confederate forces seized this shipyard.
  13. Established a hospital for soldiers in Richmond, Virginia.
  14. Rebuilt wooden confederate ship.
  15. Famous for work with wounded souldiers.
Down
  1. Informed Confederate Generals of Union movements.
  2. The confederacy's capital.
  3. Union comander at Cairo.
  4. Southern tactick.
  5. 20,000 ______ at the battle of Shiloh.
  6. Under his comand captured New Orleans.
  7. Made up by Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, and Delaware.
  8. The north _______ the sothern ports.
  9. Head of the east union army.
  10. Wrote Civil War.

25 Clues: Unioners. • Confederates. • Union General. • Wrote Civil War. • Southern tactick. • Fought like a wall. • Confederate general. • Abraham Lincolns wife. • Confederate President. • Union comander at Cairo. • ______ all enslaved A.A. • The confederacy's capital. • Was known as the conductor. • Head of the east union army. • Rebuilt wooden confederate ship. • The north _______ the sothern ports. • ...

Civil war 2023-05-08

Civil war crossword puzzle
Across
  1. The _____ yell (confederate war cry)
  2. A person who worked to end slavery
  3. Someone being murdered for political reasons
  4. Southern side of the war
  5. The color confederates wore
  6. 16th president
  7. Fugitive _____ Law
  8. ________ Proclamation
  9. To lie in wait for an unexpected attack
  10. _____ Scott decision
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  1. attempt to stop people and supplies from going in or out of a port
  2. A blade at the end of a musket
  3. ____ of Gettysburg
  4. Separate from Union
  5. Heavy Military
  6. The Union side
  7. Northern Side of the war
  8. Before the war
  9. The term used for military supplies, such as weaponry and ammunition.
  10. Another word for a confederate
  11. Treating a person like property/ forcing them to work
  12. Guerrilla _____
  13. Civil____
  14. The confederate side
  15. Bellies Slang term for Union Soldiers

25 Clues: Civil____ • Heavy Military • The Union side • Before the war • 16th president • Guerrilla _____ • ____ of Gettysburg • Fugitive _____ Law • Separate from Union • The confederate side • _____ Scott decision • ________ Proclamation • Northern Side of the war • Southern side of the war • The color confederates wore • A blade at the end of a musket • Another word for a confederate • ...

Civil War 2023-05-10

Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. where general Lee surrendered to general Grant
  2. African American who saved the American Flag
  3. bloodiest day
  4. steel warships used for naval battle
  5. First Shots fired
  6. The plan that the union used to defeat the confederacy
  7. Union general, 24th governor of new jersey
  8. Formally withdraw
  9. president of the confederacy
  10. Westernmost border state
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  1. The people fighting for the end of slavery
  2. Bloodiest battle
  3. Led Confederacy at Battle of Bull Run
  4. Union general ho led the "March to the Sea"
  5. general of the union
  6. President of the union
  7. Escaped slave, conductor and creating of the underground railroad
  8. escaped slave that gave speeches
  9. general of the confederacy
  10. Founded the american red cross

20 Clues: bloodiest day • Bloodiest battle • First Shots fired • Formally withdraw • general of the union • President of the union • Westernmost border state • general of the confederacy • president of the confederacy • Founded the american red cross • escaped slave that gave speeches • steel warships used for naval battle • Led Confederacy at Battle of Bull Run • ...

civil war 2023-05-11

civil war crossword puzzle
Across
  1. to set free
  2. Storehouse for weapons
  3. people that were wounded or killed
  4. What was the South called during the Civil War
  5. A sworn promise
  6. They had these in the south
  7. Who want Texas to remain part of the United States
  8. They had these in the north
  9. law that requires people of a certain age to enlist in the military
  10. Help the war effort by Sewing uniforms and making other supplies
Down
  1. To leave or withdraw from Union
  2. Wanted to end slavery
  3. Closes a port by positioning ships to keep people or supplies from moving out
  4. Loyalty to a section or region
  5. ship made of iron
  6. Very profitable crop grown on plantations in the south
  7. Where did Lee surrender
  8. To nullify or reject a national law
  9. Northerner who opposed using force to keep the Southern states in the union.
  10. What were the North cold during the Civil War
  11. encaptured African Americans as servants
  12. To use force to take something

22 Clues: to set free • A sworn promise • ship made of iron • Wanted to end slavery • Storehouse for weapons • Where did Lee surrender • They had these in the south • They had these in the north • Loyalty to a section or region • To use force to take something • To leave or withdraw from Union • people that were wounded or killed • To nullify or reject a national law • ...

Civil war 2023-05-11

Civil war crossword puzzle
Across
  1. this guy followed troops and took photographes of the soldier
  2. Someone working for another person
  3. the historic period in which the United States grappled with the question of how to integrate millions of newly freed African Americans into social, political, and labor systems
  4. This battle was located in sharpburg, Maryland also the first major battle fought on union soil
  5. this railroad offered blacks who couldn't reach border states
  6. this battle was located at Spotsylvania County
  7. vice president when Abramham lincoln was president
  8. wanted slavery
  9. this gernal was known for the failed attack called pickett charge
  10. this city was a key Civil war city along the Mississippi river
  11. against slavery
Down
  1. this man killed Abraham lincoln
  2. 17th president off unnited states
  3. helpeed slaves escape by creating an underground railroad
  4. was the president during the Civil War
  5. this battle involved the largest number of casualties of the entire war and is often described as the war's turning point.
  6. this law specifically exempted from Confederate military service one white man for every twenty slaves owned on a Confederate plantation, or for two or more plantations within five miles of each other that collectively had twenty or more slaves.
  7. is an American white supremacist and hate group whose primary targets are African Americans
  8. This battle had 200000 people fighting in it and was one of the most deadliest battles
  9. rules or laws that were only for black people
  10. This war was the first attack that started the Civil war

21 Clues: wanted slavery • against slavery • this man killed Abraham lincoln • 17th president off unnited states • Someone working for another person • was the president during the Civil War • rules or laws that were only for black people • this battle was located at Spotsylvania County • vice president when Abramham lincoln was president • ...

Civil war 2023-05-11

Civil war crossword puzzle
Across
  1. this guy followed troops and took photographes of the soldier
  2. Someone working for another person
  3. the historic period in which the United States grappled with the question of how to integrate millions of newly freed African Americans into social, political, and labor systems
  4. This battle was located in sharpburg, Maryland also the first major battle fought on union soil
  5. this railroad offered blacks who couldn't reach border states
  6. this battle was located at Spotsylvania County
  7. vice president when Abramham lincoln was president
  8. wanted slavery
  9. this gernal was known for the failed attack called pickett charge
  10. this city was a key Civil war city along the Mississippi river
  11. against slavery
Down
  1. this man killed Abraham lincoln
  2. 17th president off unnited states
  3. helpeed slaves escape by creating an underground railroad
  4. was the president during the Civil War
  5. this battle involved the largest number of casualties of the entire war and is often described as the war's turning point.
  6. this law specifically exempted from Confederate military service one white man for every twenty slaves owned on a Confederate plantation, or for two or more plantations within five miles of each other that collectively had twenty or more slaves.
  7. is an American white supremacist and hate group whose primary targets are African Americans
  8. This battle had 200000 people fighting in it and was one of the most deadliest battles
  9. rules or laws that were only for black people
  10. This war was the first attack that started the Civil war

21 Clues: wanted slavery • against slavery • this man killed Abraham lincoln • 17th president off unnited states • Someone working for another person • was the president during the Civil War • rules or laws that were only for black people • this battle was located at Spotsylvania County • vice president when Abramham lincoln was president • ...

Civil War 2023-05-12

Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Referred to as the Confederacy . Name of the unrecognized ¨country¨ temporarily created by the southern states which seceded from the union.
  2. Someone who wishes to abolish or get rid of slavery.
  3. Act Law allowed those territories to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery by utilizing popular voting.
  4. Slave states that stayed with the United States during the civil war.
  5. 16th president, he was president during the Civil War
  6. The action of formally withdrawing from a federation
  7. A war between citizens of the same country. The American civil war was a war between Americans over states rights. It was a 4 year war and over 600,000 Americans died.
  8. An enslaved African American man, he unsuccessfully sued for his freedom, and the case went to the supreme court.
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  1. The 13th amendment abolished slavery, and the 14th granted all citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the U.S. . 15th prohibited the denial of the vote because of race, color, or previous servitude.
  2. Required all escaped slaves to be returned to their masters and that citizens of free states must cooperate.
  3. of 1850 California wanted to join the union as a free state which caused conflict between the North and the South
  4. To be set free. Lincoln's emancipation proclamation set free all slaves in the confederacy only.
  5. Numerous laws enacted in the former Confederate states after the civil war limited the rights and liberties of African Americans.
  6. A place where weapons and other military supplies are stored.
  7. Abolitionist, Led attacks in Kansas during ¨bleeding Kansas¨, planned to arm slaves in a revolt.
  8. The largest organizational group of soldiers, made up of one or more corps.
  9. The period of U.S. history immediately following the Civil War in which the conditions that would allow the rebellious Southern states back into the Union.
  10. To lie in wait for an unexpected attack.
  11. An anti-slavery novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe. It helped spread the abolitionist movement throughout the north.
  12. marked the official beginning of the American Civil Wa

20 Clues: To lie in wait for an unexpected attack. • Someone who wishes to abolish or get rid of slavery. • The action of formally withdrawing from a federation • 16th president, he was president during the Civil War • marked the official beginning of the American Civil Wa • A place where weapons and other military supplies are stored. • ...

Civil War 2023-05-12

Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. first major battle
  2. founder of the American Red Cross
  3. Union general
  4. North of the United States
  5. South of the United States
  6. troops,like the national guard
  7. Union victory
  8. president of the confederate states
  9. formally withdraw from the Union
  10. freed slaves in confederate states
  11. politically motivated murder
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  1. Union general who led the March to Sea
  2. Robert E. Lee surrenders
  3. general who led the Confederate army to Bull Run
  4. first shots of the civil war
  5. freeing of the slaves
  6. slaves states that did not secede/join the
  7. a ship protected by iron armor
  8. the Union control of the mississippi
  9. Battle that split the confederacy in half and

20 Clues: Union general • Union victory • first major battle • freeing of the slaves • Robert E. Lee surrenders • North of the United States • South of the United States • first shots of the civil war • politically motivated murder • troops,like the national guard • a ship protected by iron armor • formally withdraw from the Union • founder of the American Red Cross • ...

Civil War 2024-01-17

Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. South ____ almost seceded during the Nullification Crisis
  2. In the Civil War, the South was known as the ___
  3. This side in the Civil War had an economy based on agriculture and slave labor
  4. California was admitted as a ___ state according to the Compromise of 1850
  5. Sherman's March to the Sea ended in the Georgia city
  6. ___ means to reject, or not follow a law
  7. ____ was elected president in 1860
  8. 13,000 Union soldiers died of overcrowding, ___, and disease
  9. Andersonville was a Union ___ in Georgia where many Union soldiers died
  10. South Carolina was the first state to ___ from the Union after Lincoln's election
  11. The South used ____ labor to work in the fields
  12. Abraham Lincoln represented this political party
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  1. To cut off supplies, the Union set up a ____ of southern ports
  2. Union General who led the Atlanta campaign
  3. The ____ Scott case decision declared that slaves were property and could not sue in court
  4. Sherman's ___ to the Sea was meant to destroy Georgia resources and end support for the war
  5. This Georgia city was burned because it was a center of industry and transportation
  6. Lincoln issued the ____ Proclamation declared all slaves in rebellious states free
  7. extremist group who felt slavery was evil
  8. In the Civil War, the North was known as the ____
  9. The Compromise of 1850 included the ___ Slave Act to make the South happy
  10. In the Dred Scott case, the court stated slaves were ___ not citizens
  11. Confederate victory in north Georgia
  12. The South believed in state's ____ which put individual states needs ahead of the nation

24 Clues: ____ was elected president in 1860 • Confederate victory in north Georgia • ___ means to reject, or not follow a law • extremist group who felt slavery was evil • Union General who led the Atlanta campaign • The South used ____ labor to work in the fields • In the Civil War, the South was known as the ___ • Abraham Lincoln represented this political party • ...

Civil War 2024-01-22

Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. replace McClellan after the battle of Antietam
  2. fast ships that were long and narrow
  3. Lee's cavalry commander
  4. bloodiest one day battle in American History
  5. founder of the American Red Cross in the US
  6. declared all slaves in confederate-controlled territory free
  7. Capitol of the Confederate State's of America
  8. failed attack by 15,000 Confederate Troops across an open field
  9. Capitol of the United States of America
  10. God's control over all events
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  1. General Winfield Scott's Strategy
  2. innovation to aid in communication
  3. President Lincoln's speech during a cemetery dedication
  4. saved the First Battle of Bull Run
  5. union general who led the march to the sea
  6. bonus paid for Soldiers to enlist
  7. another name for a draft
  8. Commander of the Army of Northern Virginia
  9. site of Lee's surrender to Grant
  10. metal ships used by both sides during the war
  11. Union General nicknamed "Young Napoleon"

21 Clues: Lee's cavalry commander • another name for a draft • God's control over all events • site of Lee's surrender to Grant • General Winfield Scott's Strategy • bonus paid for Soldiers to enlist • innovation to aid in communication • saved the First Battle of Bull Run • fast ships that were long and narrow • Capitol of the United States of America • ...

Civil War 2023-10-30

Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. the most important river in the south
  2. Bloodiest battle of the war
  3. First name of main confederate general
  4. Capital of confederacy
  5. The south’s strategy
  6. confederate general with the nickname stonewall
  7. first major land battle
  8. Important way of communication
  9. what the civil war abolished
  10. Guy from Maine
  11. President of the union
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  1. The state with the confederate capital in it
  2. General in charge of the destruction of Georgia
  3. Main union general
  4. A border state that starts with k
  5. First name of the founder of the Red Cross
  6. the fort that started the civil war
  7. A Border state with George Washington made a famous crossing there
  8. President of the confederacy
  9. Battle for the Tennessee river
  10. Name of the north’s plan

21 Clues: Guy from Maine • Main union general • The south’s strategy • Capital of confederacy • President of the union • first major land battle • Name of the north’s plan • Bloodiest battle of the war • President of the confederacy • what the civil war abolished • Battle for the Tennessee river • Important way of communication • A border state that starts with k • ...

Civil War 2023-10-26

Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Having to do with an inauguration
  2. someone who dies for his/her beliefs
  3. Missouri compromise/ popular sovereignty
  4. both against slavery
  5. part of an alliance/confederacy
  6. Pro-Slavery group ransacked the city
  7. Relief from an Injury/wrongdoing
  8. Southern democrats choice him
  9. Popular Sovereignty
  10. Criticized people who were Pro-Slavery
  11. Crossed border to vote from slave state
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  1. Taylor's vice president
  2. Dred scott's judge
  3. Slavery banned in territory of mexican cession
  4. Lincoln's main points of speech
  5. a new party
  6. South Carolina's decision to revolt, legal right
  7. Enslaved man's quart case
  8. elected jefferson davis
  9. abolitionists raided arsenal

20 Clues: a new party • Dred scott's judge • Popular Sovereignty • both against slavery • Taylor's vice president • elected jefferson davis • Enslaved man's quart case • abolitionists raided arsenal • Southern democrats choice him • Lincoln's main points of speech • part of an alliance/confederacy • Relief from an Injury/wrongdoing • Having to do with an inauguration • ...

Civil War 2023-10-27

Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. confederates fired at this fort in South Carolina
  2. he storms into Lawrence and destroys most of the town on August 21, 1863
  3. first republican president and represents a party that opposes slavery
  4. replaces general Joseph Johnston and renamed his command "Army of Northern Virginia"
  5. Lee successfully stalls Grants troops toward Richmond in this battle
  6. the first major battle of the Red River Campaign in Louisiana
  7. confederate troops under General John B. Gordon attacked and briefly captured this fort in the petersburg siege lines
  8. this prison notorious for overcrowded conditions and high death rates among its inmates
  9. the bloodiest battle of the Civil War dashes Robert E Lee's hopes for a successful invasion of the North
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  1. battle that loosened the confederates hold on Missouri and disrupted south control on the Mississippi River
  2. battle fought near Manassas, Virginia,Union Army under General Irwins control succeeds in pushing the confederates back but then forces were brought to the confederates side
  3. this battle Jubal Early's Confederates successfully attack and drive troops of the army of Shenandoah from their camps to the banks of Cedar Creek south of Middletown, Virginia
  4. first major battle of Tennessee, confederate General Albert Sidney Johnston is killed on the first day of fighting
  5. this is the opening battle of the Overland Campaign. Grant issued orders for the Campaign to begin on May 3
  6. his troops nearly murdered 300 United States soldiers after they had surrendered
  7. this general marched South from Tennessee into Georgia against the Confederate Army of Tennessee under General Joseph Johnston
  8. this river is the one the Army of the Potomac cross and with troops from the army of James, attacked the outer defenses of Petersburg
  9. disgruntled workers and laborers, seething over the draft system that seems to favor the rich, attack the draft office and African American churches
  10. this general replaces General Joseph Johnston as commander of the Army of Tennessee
  11. this battle the US defeat of Nathan Bedford Forrest secured the supply lines to Sherman's armies operating against Atlanta, Georgia

20 Clues: confederates fired at this fort in South Carolina • the first major battle of the Red River Campaign in Louisiana • Lee successfully stalls Grants troops toward Richmond in this battle • first republican president and represents a party that opposes slavery • he storms into Lawrence and destroys most of the town on August 21, 1863 • ...

Civil War 2023-09-17

Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. An attempt to stop people and supplies from going in or out of a port.
  2. A soldier that is wounded or killed during battle.
  3. Putting the local interests and customs ahead of the entire country.
  4. Loyal to the Confederate States. Also Southern or Confederate.
  5. A state of bondage in which African Americans (and some Native Americans) were owned by other people, usually white, and forced to labor on their behalf.
  6. A warship that is fully covered and protected by iron cladding.
  7. Resisting or protecting against attack from someone.
  8. Soldiers that fight and travel by foot.
  9. A long blade or knife attached to the end of a musket. Soldiers would use it like a spear in close combat.
  10. Pro-slave states were in the...
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  1. The cruel killing of a number of helpless or unresisting people.
  2. A long gun with a smooth bore that soldiers shot from the shoulder.
  3. A person who wanted to eliminate or "abolish" slavery.
  4. A minor fight.
  5. Large caliber firearms like cannons and mortars.
  6. Crackers eaten by Civil War soldiers made from flour, water, and salt.
  7. A Northerner; someone loyal to the Federal government of the United States. Also, Union, Federal, or Northern.
  8. An army of citizens used during emergencies.
  9. The term used to describe new soldiers.
  10. Anti-slave states were in the...

20 Clues: A minor fight. • Pro-slave states were in the... • Anti-slave states were in the... • The term used to describe new soldiers. • Soldiers that fight and travel by foot. • An army of citizens used during emergencies. • Large caliber firearms like cannons and mortars. • A soldier that is wounded or killed during battle. • Resisting or protecting against attack from someone. • ...

Civil War 2023-09-20

Civil War crossword puzzle
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  1. Committed to expanding slavery
  2. Anti-slavery political party
  3. Rising prices
  4. 1865 constitutional amendment that abolished slavery
  5. 16th US president, opposed and ended slavery\
  6. Won most battles in Civil War
  7. Secret organization made up of white people against other races
  8. 1846 bill that would have banned slavery in the territory won from Mexico
  9. Allowed California to be a free state
  10. Segregation opposed by law
  11. Union general, scored 5 victories captured Vicksburg
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  1. Became president after Lincoln was assassinated and first to become impeached
  2. Process of making a country normal again after the war
  3. Congressman who advocated full citizen rights to African Americans
  4. Strategy where they not only attack the enemy but also the enemies people
  5. Supreme court ruling stating slaves weren't citizens
  6. Led 60000 troops and 400 mile march of destruction
  7. Accusation against public official of wrong-doing in office
  8. DAVIS President of CSA, went to jail for treason
  9. Where the first shots were fired during the Civil War

20 Clues: Rising prices • Segregation opposed by law • Anti-slavery political party • Won most battles in Civil War • Committed to expanding slavery • Allowed California to be a free state • 16th US president, opposed and ended slavery\ • Led 60000 troops and 400 mile march of destruction • DAVIS President of CSA, went to jail for treason • ...

Civil War 2024-05-15

Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Union forces commanded by William T. Sherman, wanting to neutralize the important rail and supply hub
  2. talks about different materials and liquids used by the Canon
  3. forces from the Confederate States of America attacked the United States military garrison
  4. showed that the Union could stand against the Confederate army in the Eastern theater
  5. Confederate troops repulsed enemy forces, delaying the Union's advance on Atlanta
  6. the bloodiest battle in the civil war
  7. the largest auction of enslaved people in U.S. history
  8. fought July 1–3, 1863, in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
  9. Gen. Robert E. Lee's Confederate army defeated Union forces under Maj. Gen. John Pope
  10. Confederate troops attack a Union supply depot and are met by untested United States Colored Troops
  11. a Unionist who professes to rob, burn out and murder only rebels in arms against the government.
  12. american Civil War lasting from November 15 to December 21, 1864
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  1. laws passed at different periods in the southern United States
  2. failed an attempt by American and French forces to retake the port city from its British occupiers.
  3. the historic period in which the United States grappled with the question of how to integrate millions of newly freed African Americans into social, political, and labor systems
  4. term saying once slaves crossed US army line, they became property
  5. declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."
  6. an early battle of the civil war, stands as one of the greatest Confederate victories.
  7. tells the story of Cora, a runaway slave
  8. the political policy of promoting or protecting the interests of "native-born" or established inhabitants over those of immigrants
  9. General Robert E. Lee, commander of all Confederate forces, surrendered his Army of Northern Virginia to Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant.
  10. called for a naval blockade of the Confederate littoral

22 Clues: the bloodiest battle in the civil war • tells the story of Cora, a runaway slave • the largest auction of enslaved people in U.S. history • called for a naval blockade of the Confederate littoral • talks about different materials and liquids used by the Canon • laws passed at different periods in the southern United States • ...

Civil War 2024-05-13

Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. a village in central Virginia where the Confederate army under Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant's Union forces on April 9, 1865, effectively ending the American Civil War.
  2. allowed Union troops to penetrate the Confederate interior
  3. Confederate soldiers, hiding behind buildings and inside houses, attack Burnside's men, who are advancing into the town of Fredericksburg
  4. declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."
  5. a member of a band of antislavery guerrillas in Kansas and Missouri before and during the American Civil War.
  6. the act or process of rebuilding, repairing, or restoring something.
  7. was held so that slave owner Pierce Mease Butler could pay off his gambling debts.
  8. a decisive engagement that halted the Confederate invasion of Maryland
  9. Confederate general Joseph E. Johnston's troops line the mountain's crest to repulse the advance of Union general William T. Sherman
  10. military strategy proposed by Union General Winfield Scott early in the American Civil War
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  1. instrumental in the eventual victory for the Federal forces
  2. The battle involved the largest number of casualties of the entire war and is often described as the war's turning point.
  3. captured the last confederate fortress on the Mississippi River, divided the Confederacy in two, and gave the Union complete control of the river.
  4. an American Civil War campaign lasting from November 15 to December 21, 1864,
  5. South Carolina location where Confederate forces fired the first shots of the Civil War in April of 1861,
  6. failed attempt by American and French forces to retake the port city from its British occupiers
  7. proved to be the deciding battle in the Civil War campaign waged between Union and Confederate armies in northern Virginia in 1862.
  8. the policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants.
  9. the resistance to enslavement through escape and flight, through the end of the Civil War
  10. something that according to international law cannot be supplied to one belligerent except at the risk of seizure and condemnation by the other.
  11. restricted black people's right to own property, conduct business, buy and lease land, and move freely through public spaces
  12. a man holding and cultivating a small landed estate

22 Clues: a man holding and cultivating a small landed estate • allowed Union troops to penetrate the Confederate interior • instrumental in the eventual victory for the Federal forces • the act or process of rebuilding, repairing, or restoring something. • a decisive engagement that halted the Confederate invasion of Maryland • ...

Civil War 2024-04-18

Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. General Scorched Earth Captured Atlanta
  2. Battle site AKA Bull Run
  3. Formed on February 8, 1861, by seven slave states
  4. President Assasinated
  5. To withdraw from an organization
  6. Confederate General
  7. The practice of growing crops or raising animals
  8. AKA Battle of Pittsburg Landing
  9. A person who wants to stop or abolish slavery
  10. Union General and President
  11. Fort in Cahrleston Beginning of Civil War
  12. Fluffy staple fiber used to make clothes
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  1. Battle site on Missippi River
  2. Battle that opened up the deep south 4 union
  3. Site where Lee surrendered to Grant
  4. Battle which marked turning point of war
  5. Battle site greatest number of combatants
  6. War between the states
  7. Northern Staes
  8. Grant and Meade's second overland battle
  9. AKA Battle of Sharpsburg
  10. Large property or landholding dependent on the labor of enslaved people

22 Clues: Northern Staes • Confederate General • President Assasinated • War between the states • Battle site AKA Bull Run • AKA Battle of Sharpsburg • Union General and President • Battle site on Missippi River • AKA Battle of Pittsburg Landing • To withdraw from an organization • Site where Lee surrendered to Grant • General Scorched Earth Captured Atlanta • ...

Civil War 2024-05-15

Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. the failed attempt by American and French forces to retake the port city from its British occupiers.
  2. the resistance to enslavement through escape and flight, through the end of the Civil War
  3. Robert E. Lee surrendered
  4. a critical win for both the Union and the Confederacy.
  5. defense against pro-slavery "Border Ruffians", abolition, driving pro-slavery settlers from their claims of land, revenge, and/or plunder
  6. Union forces commanded by William T. Sherman, wanting to neutralize the important rail and supply hub, defeated Confederate forces defending the city under John B. Hood.
  7. the historic period in which the United States grappled with the question of how to integrate millions of newly freed African Americans into social, political, and labor systems
  8. one of the largest and deadliest battles of the Civil War
  9. a crucial victory for the Union during the Civil War.
  10. restricted black people's right to own property, conduct business, buy and lease land, and move freely through public spaces
  11. the political policy of promoting the interests of native inhabitants against those of immigrants, including by supporting immigration-restriction measures.
  12. ended the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia's first invasion into the North and led Abraham Lincoln to issue the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation.
  13. classified the escaping slaves as contraband of war.
  14. Gen. Robert E. Lee's Confederate army defeated Union
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  1. declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."
  2. Confederate general Joseph E. Johnston's troops line the mountain's crest to repulse the advance of Union general William T. Sherman
  3. marked the official beginning of the American Civil War
  4. military strategy proposed by Union General Winfield Scott early in the American Civil War.
  5. The battle involved the largest number of casualties of the entire war and is often described as the war's turning point.
  6. A civil war campaign
  7. the largest auction of enslaved people in U.S. history
  8. those who owned and worked their own land.

22 Clues: A civil war campaign • Robert E. Lee surrendered • those who owned and worked their own land. • classified the escaping slaves as contraband of war. • Gen. Robert E. Lee's Confederate army defeated Union • a crucial victory for the Union during the Civil War. • a critical win for both the Union and the Confederacy. • ...

civil war 2023-10-24

civil war crossword puzzle
Across
  1. After Charles Sumner of Massachusetts criticized people who were pro-slavery, this broke out.
  2. Over the summer hundreds of people were killed in "Bleeding Kansas"
  3. Invoked the doctrine of popular sovereignty and allow the people there to determine the slavery issue.
  4. This required Northern citizens to cooperate with and assist slave-catchers, and denied runaway slaves a fair trial.
  5. An idea made by Henry Clay that was passed into law.
  6. These people crossed the border to vote from the slave state of Missouri.
  7. An Illinois senator that wanted to build a railroad that ran through it from Chicago to the Pacific.
  8. An essay written by Henry David Thoreau on the idea that people should refuse to follow the laws or commands of a government when they seem unjust.
  9. Part of an alliance or confederacy
  10. Negated the fugitive slave act and proved to the South that the North was not enforcing the law.
  11. When someone is sworn into office, what do they give?
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  1. A belief that territories could exclude slavery through local legislation.
  2. On December 20 1860 what state seceded from the US
  3. Nominated by the Northern Democrats for the Election of 1860.
  4. Someone who died for their beliefs.
  5. Nominated by the Republican Party to be president of California.
  6. Won by Zachary Taylor.
  7. Proposed by David Wilmot suggesting that slavery be banned in any territory acquired through the Mexican Cession.
  8. relief from an injury or wrong doing
  9. An enslaved man that fueled the abolitionist cause.

20 Clues: Won by Zachary Taylor. • Part of an alliance or confederacy • Someone who died for their beliefs. • relief from an injury or wrong doing • On December 20 1860 what state seceded from the US • An enslaved man that fueled the abolitionist cause. • An idea made by Henry Clay that was passed into law. • When someone is sworn into office, what do they give? • ...

Civil War 2024-04-09

Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. What was the battle that the Confederates surrendered at? _____ Courthouse
  2. The bloodiest battle in the Civil War.
  3. This was written by Abe Lincoln and it freed the slaves on the land that the union took over.
  4. What was the first colored troop in the war? _______ 54th
  5. What battle gave the Union control of the Mississippi River?
  6. _______ smalls.
  7. During this battle the union was forced to surrender.
  8. The cannon that kept shooting Charleston non-stop in August in 1863.
  9. Who was the main officer in charge of the Union? ______ S. Grant
  10. What was the name of the first submarine in the war.
  11. What method did the Union use in the siege of Charleston?
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  1. What were slaves that ran away to union lines called?
  2. first major setback for the confederate.
  3. What kind of war was the Civil War?
  4. The Union bombed Charleston for a year during this.
  5. Side wanting to unite the nation.
  6. an unsuccessful assault by the Massachusetts 54th.
  7. The side wanting to secede.
  8. Who was the main officer in charge of the Confederates? Robert E. ____
  9. Who was the president during the war?

20 Clues: _______ smalls. • The side wanting to secede. • Side wanting to unite the nation. • What kind of war was the Civil War? • Who was the president during the war? • The bloodiest battle in the Civil War. • first major setback for the confederate. • an unsuccessful assault by the Massachusetts 54th. • The Union bombed Charleston for a year during this. • ...

Civil War 2024-04-24

Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. The first shots of the Civil War were fired here; Charleston, SC.
  2. The compulsory enlistment or drafting of individuals into military service.
  3. Related to the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services in a society.
  4. adding a territory or region into the country, often by force or agreement.
  5. A bloody battle in Tennessee that marked a turning point in the war
  6. This battle's first major conflict ended with a Confederate victory; Virginia
  7. A system of government where power is shared between a central authority (federal government) and individual states.
  8. The act of declaring a law or action of the government invalid and unconstitutional.
  9. A decisive battle in Pennsylvania often referred to as the turning point of the Civil War
  10. A strong sense of loyalty, pride, or devotion to one's own nation or country.
  11. The act of setting someone free from slavery
  12. The site where Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered, effectively ending the Civil War.
  13. This Confederate stronghold surrendered after a long siege, giving the Union control of the Mississippi River.
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  1. The loyalty or support for one's own region or section of a country; North vs. South.
  2. A situation where a single company or entity has exclusive control or ownership over a particular product, service, or industry.
  3. The principle that the federal government has ultimate power and authority over the states in the United States.
  4. This refers to the period of time before a war, specifically in the context of the United States, the period before the Civil War.
  5. A group or alliance of states that have joined together for a common purpose or goal.
  6. The bloodiest single-day battle in American history; Maryland
  7. March: A devastating military campaign through Georgia and the Carolinas led by Union General William Tecumseh Sherman.
  8. The act of using naval forces to prevent goods or people from entering or leaving a specific area
  9. The movement to end or abolish the institution of slavery.

22 Clues: The act of setting someone free from slavery • The movement to end or abolish the institution of slavery. • The bloodiest single-day battle in American history; Maryland • The first shots of the Civil War were fired here; Charleston, SC. • A bloody battle in Tennessee that marked a turning point in the war • ...

Civil War 2024-05-06

Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. nickname of General Jackson
  2. battle where Jackson was killed
  3. prison camp in Georgia
  4. first fort attacked in the civil war
  5. a border state
  6. president of the Confederacy
  7. doctor who set Booth's leg
  8. southern ironclad ship
  9. last fort on the mississippi river
  10. man who killed Lincoln
  11. another name for dollar bills
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  1. bloodiest day of the war
  2. union plan to win the war
  3. confederate leading general
  4. month the war started and end
  5. month of Union victory at Gettysburg
  6. bloodiest battle of the war
  7. wife of Lincoln
  8. president of the Union
  9. theater where Lincoln was shot

20 Clues: a border state • wife of Lincoln • prison camp in Georgia • president of the Union • southern ironclad ship • man who killed Lincoln • bloodiest day of the war • union plan to win the war • doctor who set Booth's leg • nickname of General Jackson • confederate leading general • bloodiest battle of the war • president of the Confederacy • month the war started and end • ...

Civil War 2025-04-14

Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. A unit of six or four cannons
  2. An attempt to stop people and supplies from going in or out of a port
  3. Large caliber firearms
  4. A soldier that is wounded or killed during battle
  5. A bread/cracker like food used during the war
  6. The back end of a weapon's barrel
  7. The withdrawal of a group from a large entity
  8. The side of an army or military unit
  9. To officially leave or end alliance
  10. To set free
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  1. Ironclad warship of the Union
  2. Southern capital of Georgia where Union General Sherman stared his "March to the sea"
  3. This act took western territory and divided it up into two states Kansas and Nebraska
  4. President of the US during the Civil War
  5. Belonging to a period before a war
  6. Kansas The term to refer to bloody events in Kansas as the state decide the issue of slavery
  7. Battle in Mississippi won by the Uion that gave the Uion control of the Mississippi River
  8. Another name for the Confedrate States or America or the South
  9. A law that requires people of a certain age to enlist in the military
  10. The North side in the Civil War

20 Clues: To set free • Large caliber firearms • Ironclad warship of the Union • A unit of six or four cannons • The North side in the Civil War • The back end of a weapon's barrel • Belonging to a period before a war • To officially leave or end alliance • The side of an army or military unit • President of the US during the Civil War • A bread/cracker like food used during the war • ...

Civil War 2025-04-17

Civil War crossword puzzle
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  1. used in hand-to-hand combat
  2. for carrying water
  3. used for aerial reconnaissance.
  4. lee general of the confederacy
  5. land and sea mines
  6. For rapid communication.
  7. For carrying supplies.
  8. is found in first aid kits
  9. Attached to musCarbine Riflese-quarters combat.
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  1. Used to transport troops and supplies.
  2. Rifles shorter, more maneuverable rifle.
  3. Warships New technology in naval warfare.
  4. Cannons and other large-caliber firearms.
  5. shot out of cannons
  6. Important for naval operations.
  7. Similar to backpacks, they held personal belongings, food, and other items.
  8. Distinguished soldiers and also held layers of meaning for those in US Colored Troops.
  9. was used in Civil Warwar to kill people
  10. sumnter first battle of the war
  11. confederate unifrom colors
  12. union uniform colors
  13. Guns Rapid-fire weapons.
  14. lincoln 16th
  15. used to survive
  16. of cards to play a game

25 Clues: lincoln 16th • used to survive • for carrying water • land and sea mines • shot out of cannons • union uniform colors • For carrying supplies. • For rapid communication. • Guns Rapid-fire weapons. • of cards to play a game • confederate unifrom colors • is found in first aid kits • used in hand-to-hand combat • Important for naval operations. • used for aerial reconnaissance. • ...

civil war 2025-04-16

civil war crossword puzzle
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  1. A nickname for northerners who were against the Civil War
  2. beginning of battle
  3. 2 wheeled barrel
  4. large caliber firearms
  5. soldier killed in battle
  6. an army officer of high rank
  7. A term used to describe people who supported the Union
  8. breech loading single shot rifle
  9. someone who wanted slavery to end
  10. basic unit of artillery
  11. barriers which were breast high
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  1. another name for confederate states
  2. term meaning before war
  3. quarter inch thick square
  4. attempt to stop people going in or out of port
  5. executive order from the president
  6. large organization of soldiers
  7. soldiers trained to fight on horseback
  8. The side of an army or military unit
  9. back end of a weapons barrel
  10. murder of an important person

21 Clues: 2 wheeled barrel • beginning of battle • large caliber firearms • term meaning before war • basic unit of artillery • soldier killed in battle • quarter inch thick square • an army officer of high rank • back end of a weapons barrel • murder of an important person • large organization of soldiers • barriers which were breast high • breech loading single shot rifle • ...

civil war 2025-03-31

civil war crossword puzzle
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  1. a town in pennslyvania
  2. refers to the slave states (Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, and West Virginia) that remained in the Union, despite bordering the Confederate states
  3. any of a number of stout-bodied venomous snakes with coppery-pink or reddish-brown coloration.
  4. (in the past) soldiers who fought on horseback.
  5. a knife for the end of a rifle
  6. the fact or process of being set free from legal, social, or political restrictions; liberation.
  7. relating to ordinary citizens and their concerns, as distinct from military or ecclesiastical matters.
  8. a league or alliance, especially of confederate states.
  9. confederate general during civil war
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  1. the ownership of one person by another, where the enslaved person is treated as property and forced to work without pay or freedom
  2. hard dry bread or biscuit, especially as rations for sailors.
  3. a sustained fight between large organized armed forces.
  4. a temporary camp without tents or cover, used especially by soldiers or mountaineers.
  5. a state of armed conflict between different nations or states or different groups within a nation or state.
  6. a container consisting of one or more cells, in which chemical energy is converted into electricity and used as a source of power.
  7. 3rd presedent
  8. an act or means of sealing off a place to prevent goods or people from entering or leaving.
  9. the action or fact of joining or being joined, especially in a political context.
  10. the action of assassinating someone.
  11. 15th presedent

20 Clues: 3rd presedent • 15th presedent • a town in pennslyvania • a knife for the end of a rifle • the action of assassinating someone. • confederate general during civil war • (in the past) soldiers who fought on horseback. • a sustained fight between large organized armed forces. • a league or alliance, especially of confederate states. • ...

Civil War 2025-05-09

Civil War crossword puzzle
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  1. State that sent food and suplies to the North
  2. Union Army unit formed in 1862 and usually fought in battles in the South.
  3. special Civil War soldiers known for their colorful uniforms
  4. also known as the south
  5. Ended slavery in teh COnfederate states
  6. A name used by Southerners to desscribe Northerners
  7. Transportation for goods, soldiers and messages
  8. where the first shots of the Civil war took place
  9. it had railroads that supplied the Confederate capital, Richmond
  10. placed in water and exploded when a ship touched them
  11. a political party in the early 1800s but they started to break apart before the Civil War
  12. Also known as the North
  13. a system where one person owns another and controls their life
  14. over 20,000 ____ fought in the Civil War
  15. bloodiest battle in The Civil War
  16. ___ was the capital of the Confederacy
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  1. the act to end slavery
  2. led a raid on Harpers ferry
  3. debates on whether they should have slavery or not
  4. Made killing targets a lot easier
  5. wrote Uncle Tolm's Cabin
  6. soldiers who chose to fight rather than being drafted
  7. vital part of the underground railroad, it offered a large network of routes and safe houses for slaves to escape.
  8. A log painted black to look like a cannon used to intiidate the enemy
  9. it allowed those states to have popular sovereignty regarding slavery.
  10. President of the Confederate states

26 Clues: the act to end slavery • also known as the south • Also known as the North • wrote Uncle Tolm's Cabin • led a raid on Harpers ferry • Made killing targets a lot easier • bloodiest battle in The Civil War • President of the Confederate states • ___ was the capital of the Confederacy • Ended slavery in teh COnfederate states • over 20,000 ____ fought in the Civil War • ...

CIVIL WAR 2025-10-01

CIVIL WAR crossword puzzle
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  1. main preservative in soldiers food
  2. Confederate resource to try and win the war
  3. slave states that remained in the Union
  4. Harvard dropout
  5. state that was home to Andersonville
  6. easy cure that led to many addictions
  7. President of the Confederacy
  8. "draft"
  9. Lee's right hand man
  10. bloodiest battle during the war
  11. critics of the war dragging on
  12. amount of days the Peninsula Campaign was waged
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  1. #1 disease killing soldiers during the war
  2. 1860 candidate that wouldn't talk about slavery
  3. writ of habeas ____________
  4. communication breakthrough during the war
  5. nickname give to Union soldiers
  6. state that housed the Confederate capital
  7. most common surgery during the war
  8. rights that were one of the major causes of the war
  9. one of the ways soldier aid societies raised money
  10. home to Camp Chase
  11. convicted and found guilty of committing war crimes
  12. 1st system of prisoner exchange
  13. the 1st organized gang in the U.S.

25 Clues: "draft" • Harvard dropout • home to Camp Chase • Lee's right hand man • writ of habeas ____________ • President of the Confederacy • critics of the war dragging on • nickname give to Union soldiers • 1st system of prisoner exchange • bloodiest battle during the war • main preservative in soldiers food • most common surgery during the war • the 1st organized gang in the U.S. • ...

civil war 2025-10-24

civil war crossword puzzle
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  1. Gin a machine that efficiently separates cotton fibers from their seeds,
  2. Kansas a violent conflict in the Kansas Territory between pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers from 1854 to 1859, largely due to the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854.
  3. Toms Cabin he story follows Eliza and her son escaping north, while Uncle Tom is sold south
  4. compromise a 1820 US federal laws that admited missouri to the Union as a slave state amd Maine as a free state at the same time.
  5. Slave act a federal law that required all citizens, including those in free states, to help capture and return escaped enslaved people to their owners
  6. slavery a system where indivduals are treated as personal property that can be bought, sold or traded
  7. sovereignty the supreme power or authority of a state or government to govern itself and its territory without outside interference
  8. Clay an American lawyer and statesman who represented Kentucky in both the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives.
  9. war a U.S citizen or resident of Mexican Birth or descent
  10. the fact or process of being set free from legal, social, or political restrictions liberation.
  11. to break away from a territory or group in power and create a separate entity
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  1. the theory that states can invalidate federal laws they deem unconstitutional
  2. Railroad a secret network of people who helped enslaved people escape to freedom, primarily using coded language from railroads
  3. Act Created Kansas and nebraska as territories
  4. a political movement centered around ending slavery
  5. of 1850 a series of five laws passed by the U.S congress to settle disputes over slavery and to prevent war
  6. Brown a radical abolitionist who in 1859, led an unsuccessful raid on a federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia
  7. Scott Decision ruled that Americans of African descent were not citizens and could not sue in federal court
  8. Douglass an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman
  9. cotton refers to the belief that in the 19th century U.S South thought that cotton was the most important commodity in the world

20 Clues: Act Created Kansas and nebraska as territories • a political movement centered around ending slavery • war a U.S citizen or resident of Mexican Birth or descent • Gin a machine that efficiently separates cotton fibers from their seeds, • the theory that states can invalidate federal laws they deem unconstitutional • ...

Civil war 2025-12-16

Civil war crossword puzzle
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  1. The idea that a state did not have to follow a federal law is called
  2. During the French and Indian War, what part of North America did the opposing parties want?
  3. What items did Oglethorpe promise that the colonists would produce in Georgia?
  4. According to the Charter of 1732, which groups of people were not allowed to become colonists in Georgia?
  5. Which of Georgia’s regions is most populated?
  6. What type of colony did Georgia become after the Charter of 1732 expired?
  7. Why were the English and the Spanish interested in the Southeastern part of North America?
  8. What natural feature did the Proclamation Line of 1763 follow?
  9. Which Protestant group developed New Ebenezer and contributed many social improvements in Georgia, including the first orphanage and Sunday school?
  10. List several names for colonists who were ready to cut ties with Great Britain.
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  1. Georgia is in which two hemispheres?
  2. Why was James Oglethorpe important to the colony of Georgia?
  3. In which region do crops such as peanuts, cotton, tobacco and Vidalia onions grow?
  4. Why did the British Parliament create the Stamp Act?
  5. If we allow slaves, we act against the very principles by which we associated together, which was to relieve the distressed.” -James Edward Oglethorpe
  6. Which of Georgia’s regions is most populated?
  7. What group was greatly opposed to the trustee laws banning rum, slavery, and land purchases?
  8. England wanted to create a colony in which the Georgia colony would protect their valuable northern colonies from Spanish threat to the south.
  9. Which of the 13 colonies was the only one to enforce the Stamp Act?
  10. Who was the colonel who defeated 800 British troops at the Battle of Kettle Creek and then later led a Georgia militia and took Augusta from the British?
  11. How was Mary Musgrove vital to the survival of the colony?

21 Clues: Georgia is in which two hemispheres? • Which of Georgia’s regions is most populated? • Which of Georgia’s regions is most populated? • Why did the British Parliament create the Stamp Act? • How was Mary Musgrove vital to the survival of the colony? • Why was James Oglethorpe important to the colony of Georgia? • ...

The Civil War Terrance Ogo Ordot 2017-02-15

The Civil War Terrance Ogo Ordot crossword puzzle
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  1. withdraw formally from membership in a federal union
  2. _________ plan; had 3 parts
  3. suspended by Lincoln during Civil War
  4. president of Confederacy
  5. Confederacy surrenders here
  6. assassinated abraham lincoln (john wilkes _____)
  7. emancipation proclamation freed slaves here
  8. leading General of Union
  9. "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
  10. mississippi, confederacy was split in two
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  1. huge advantage for North
  2. the south, went against the union
  3. general for confederacy
  4. huge advantage for South
  5. draft to serve in army
  6. completely devastated Atlanta, Georgia (ex of total war)
  7. president during the civil war
  8. founded in 1881 by Clara Barton
  9. where the civil war started
  10. single bloodiest day battle in the war
  11. turning point, game over for Confederacy
  12. west _________, broke away from state

22 Clues: draft to serve in army • general for confederacy • huge advantage for North • huge advantage for South • president of Confederacy • leading General of Union • _________ plan; had 3 parts • where the civil war started • Confederacy surrenders here • president during the civil war • founded in 1881 by Clara Barton • the south, went against the union • ...

Civil War Crossword 2023-05-09

Civil War Crossword crossword puzzle
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  1. the bloodiest battle of the civil war
  2. people against slavery
  3. president of the confederate states of America
  4. confederate general
  5. Clara Barton created this to help people
  6. government by the people
  7. was a slave who tried to sue for his freedom in the Supreme court
  8. Anti-slavery
  9. won the election of 1860
  10. where General Robert E. Lee surrendered his troops to the union
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  1. the battle that started the Civil war
  2. the name of the North during the war
  3. Pro-slavery
  4. The name of the South during the war
  5. The South did this after the election of 1860
  6. wrote Uncle Tom's cabin
  7. was the first state to secede
  8. Union general and the 18th president of the united states
  9. tried to start a slave revolt by stealing weapons
  10. the biggest killer during the civil war

20 Clues: Pro-slavery • Anti-slavery • confederate general • people against slavery • wrote Uncle Tom's cabin • government by the people • won the election of 1860 • was the first state to secede • the name of the North during the war • The name of the South during the war • the battle that started the Civil war • the bloodiest battle of the civil war • the biggest killer during the civil war • ...

3.11 The Civil War 2025-12-10

3.11 The Civil War crossword puzzle
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  1. Weapon attached to rifles
  2. Technology documenting battlefield realities
  3. New federal paper money
  4. Site of the war’s first shots
  5. Union general
  6. Movement to end slavery
  7. Early Union commander
  8. Siege that split the Confederacy
  9. U.S. president during the Civil War
  10. Location of Confederate surrender
  11. Northerners who opposed the war
  12. Confederate president
  13. Southern Democrat leader
  14. Turning-point battle in 1863
  15. Armored Civil War warship
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  1. Lincoln’s freeing decree
  2. Northern Democrat in 1860
  3. Bloodiest single day battle
  4. Confederate general
  5. Creator of the Anaconda Plan
  6. Improved firearm of the era
  7. Confederate vice president
  8. Pain-reducing medical innovation used in Civil War surgeries
  9. Union general who used “contraband” policy
  10. Mandatory military draft
  11. Postwar rebuilding era (began during the war)
  12. Transport system crucial to both armies
  13. Union strategy to choke Southern trade
  14. Communication technology used by Lincoln
  15. Act of leaving the Union

30 Clues: Union general • Confederate general • Early Union commander • Confederate president • New federal paper money • Movement to end slavery • Lincoln’s freeing decree • Mandatory military draft • Act of leaving the Union • Southern Democrat leader • Northern Democrat in 1860 • Weapon attached to rifles • Armored Civil War warship • Confederate vice president • Bloodiest single day battle • ...

Civil War 2021-02-06

Civil War crossword puzzle
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  1. Union nurse known for establishing the American Red Cross organization.
  2. The states who had slaves although they were not apart of the Confederacy.
  3. The fort where the first shots of the Civil War were fired.
  4. Lesser fortunate, women who sewed uniforms for Confederate soldiers.
  5. A person paid by a Confederate draftee to enlist in their place in the military.
  6. A law that exempted one white plantation owner from military service for every
  7. The site of a Union attack led by African American soldiers from Massachusetts.
  8. northern states whom opposed the institution of slavery.
  9. wife of an Confederate soldier who wrote a diary about what she witnessed during the Civil War.
  10. Davis President of the Confederate States of America.
  11. A war between opposing groups of citizens of the same country
  12. Southern states who were determined to defend their homeland and perverse their way of life.
  13. The youngest military solider of the Civil War.
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  1. A abolitionist who wrote about his meeting with Lincoln discussing the Emancipation Proclamation almost 20 years later.
  2. Slave pilot who surrendered a Confederate ship in the hands Union authorities.
  3. Confederate submarine that was the first to successfully sink an enemy ship.
  4. An officer in the Union Army who left a loving letter to his wife and family before dying of an leg amputation.
  5. Union general who devised the Anaconda Plan.
  6. President of the United States during the Civil War
  7. Union General who was famous for leading the March to Sea on South Carolina.

20 Clues: Union general who devised the Anaconda Plan. • The youngest military solider of the Civil War. • President of the United States during the Civil War • Davis President of the Confederate States of America. • northern states whom opposed the institution of slavery. • The fort where the first shots of the Civil War were fired. • ...

Civil War 2021-02-08

Civil War crossword puzzle
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  1. Brutal tactic that didn't care what was in its way.
  2. A document that allowed slaves part of the Confederates freedom.
  3. Highest medal that you could get in the military, and was given for valor.
  4. Capital of the Confederate States.
  5. Someone paid to replace someone in war.
  6. States that sectioned off from America and were fighting against the Union.
  7. Super compact submarine that was deadly at the same time.
  8. A community made of freed slaves and lasted for not very long.
  9. Confederate railroads which were wrapped around trees.
  10. If you had 20 slaves or more you didn't have to be drafted into war.
  11. Less fortunate woman who had to work in factories and sew uniforms for men.
  12. A plan to wrap around the Confederacy and to take out the capital.
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  1. A war that happens between the same state or country.
  2. One-sided Union victory and lead to the freedom of thousands of slaves.
  3. Narrow ships that could slip through Union ship cracks.
  4. First shots fired of the war, and bloodless loss for the Union.
  5. Kids usually 8-12 that hit drums to lift spirits.
  6. Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, and etc.
  7. Real patriot that wrote a letter to his wife and kid about being in the war.
  8. Confederates' strategy for victory.

20 Clues: Capital of the Confederate States. • Confederates' strategy for victory. • Someone paid to replace someone in war. • Kids usually 8-12 that hit drums to lift spirits. • Brutal tactic that didn't care what was in its way. • A war that happens between the same state or country. • Confederate railroads which were wrapped around trees. • ...

civil war 2019-12-12

civil war crossword puzzle
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  1. Act , 1862 law that allowed African American soldiers to serve in the Union military
  2. state , slave states that did not secede: Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, Missouri
  3. of Vicksburg , gave the Union control of the Mississippi River in July 1863 dividing the Confederate States in two
  4. States of America , the name adopted by the 11 Southern states that seceded from the Union during the Civil War
  5. Barton , nurse during the Civil War; founder of the American Red Cross
  6. of Shiloh , April 1862 Union victory in Tennessee noted for its large number of dead and wounded
  7. Cross , an international organization that cares for the sick or wounded or homeless in wartime
  8. , an 1861 3-5% tax on earnings to pay for the costs of the Civil War
  9. , a military draft
  10. McClellan , first commander of the Union army; fired by Lincoln after the Battle of Antietam for being too cautious
  11. C. Breckinridge , Southern Democrat candidate for President of the United States in the 1860 Election
  12. Campaign , Spring 1862 failed Union attempt to capture Richmond led by McClellan stopped by Lee at the Seven Days Battle
  13. Jackson , Confederate general during the Battle of Bull Run; later became Robert E. Lee's right-hand man
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  1. G. Farragut , Union naval commander who took control of New Orleans in 1862
  2. corpus , principle that a person cannot be held in prison without first being charged with a specific crime
  3. , Confederate ironclad ship
  4. Davis , President of the Confederate States of America
  5. E. Lee , Commander of the Army of Northern Virginia (Confederate Army)
  6. Massachusetts Regiment , a famous African American unit in the Union army; led an attack on Ft. Wagner near Charleston, SC
  7. York City Draft Riots , July 1863 opposition to conscription; Irish Americans burnt buildings and killed blacks
  8. Proclamation , order issued by Abraham Lincoln declaring slaves in all rebelling states were free
  9. actor who assassinated Abraham Lincoln
  10. Brady , Civil War photographer
  11. Pickett , Confederate general who led a failed charge against Union forces at Gettysburg
  12. Amendment, 1865 constitutional amendment that abolished slavery
  13. , Union ironclad ship
  14. Wilkes Booth,
  15. Sumter , Union fort in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina where the first shots of the Civil War were fired in April 1861

28 Clues: Wilkes Booth, • , a military draft • , Union ironclad ship • , Confederate ironclad ship • Brady , Civil War photographer • actor who assassinated Abraham Lincoln • Davis , President of the Confederate States of America • Amendment, 1865 constitutional amendment that abolished slavery • , an 1861 3-5% tax on earnings to pay for the costs of the Civil War • ...

Civil War 2020-05-12

Civil War crossword puzzle
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  1. the effort by the North to keep ships from entering or leaving Southern Ports
  2. is a term used a=to describe the hard crackers often issued to soldiers of both sides during the Civil War. These crackers consisted of nothing more than flour, water, and salt. They were simple and inexpensive to make in very large quantities. However, these crackers became almost rock solid once they went stale.
  3. formally enroll in the army or to call roll
  4. A Northerner; someone loyal to the Federal government of the United States.
  5. A flag or a banner carried into battle on a pole
  6. A sailor (sometimes a child) who carried explosives from the ship’s magazine to the ship’s guns.
  7. for a Northerner who opposed the war effort.
  8. A cannon which fired hollow projectiles and generally lighter and shorter than its solid-shot cousins. A howitzer’s projectiles had a smaller powder charge. Also, canister projectiles contained more small balls that other types of canister.Howitzers were useful in defending fortifications and causing disorder within an attacking force.
  9. Loyal to the government of the United States. Also known a Union, Yankee, or Northern
  10. call the North or the United States, the Union was the portion othe country that remained loyal to the Federal government during the Civil War.
  11. Freedom from slavery.
  12. metal blade, like a long knife or short sword, that could be attached to the end of a musket or rifle-musket and used as a spear or pike I hard-to-hand combat.
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  1. political party generally against slavery and its expansion into the territories. The Whig Party had basically been swallowed by the Democrat and Republican parties by the time of the Civil War.
  2. ship protected by iron armor.
  3. who wanted to end slavery during the civil war
  4. A tern used to describe the time in American history directly after the Civil War during which the South was “reconstructed” by the North after its loss in the War.
  5. boundary surveyed in the 1760s that ran between Pennsylvania to the North and Delaware, Maryland and West Virginia to the South. It became a symbolic division between free states and slave states.
  6. cuts (trenches) dug out of the earth with the dirt piled up into a mound in front; used for defense.
  7. state of Bondage in which African Americans (and some Native Americans) were owned by other people, usually white, and forced to labor on their behalf.
  8. A new wary of conducting war appeared during the Civil War. Instead of focusing only on military targets, armies conducting total war destroyed homes and crops to demoralize and undermine the civilian base of the enemy’s war effort, ( Sherman in Georgia or Sheridan in the Shenandoah Valley, or example.)
  9. Intestinal disease causing severe diarrhea. Dysentery was a leading cause of deaths by disease.
  10. Actively attacking someone
  11. to the Confederacy – Also a southern or Rebel.
  12. Withdrawal from the Federal government of the United States. Southern state, feeling persecuted by the North, seceded by voting to separate from the Union
  13. branch of the military in which soldiers traveled and fought on foot

25 Clues: Freedom from slavery. • Actively attacking someone • ship protected by iron armor. • formally enroll in the army or to call roll • for a Northerner who opposed the war effort. • who wanted to end slavery during the civil war • to the Confederacy – Also a southern or Rebel. • A flag or a banner carried into battle on a pole • ...

Civil war 2021-04-28

Civil war crossword puzzle
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  1. A person wanted t to abolish slavery
  2. where was the turning point
  3. Pulling people into war
  4. Attempt to rebuild South into the North
  5. parting from a country
  6. March from Georgia to Atlanta
  7. A slave who sued for freedom
  8. Compromise for equal slave and free states
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  1. Jackson nickname for standing his spot
  2. War between Union & Confederate
  3. lincoln's address to the people to fought in the battle of Gettysburg
  4. To ban or remove
  5. what ended The battle of Gettysburg
  6. Who surrendered to Grant
  7. Where was lee turned in?
  8. what was the main causes of death
  9. Fighting against slavery
  10. Fighting for slavery
  11. Who was the president during the Civil war
  12. Treatment as a property

20 Clues: To ban or remove • Fighting for slavery • parting from a country • Pulling people into war • Treatment as a property • Who surrendered to Grant • Where was lee turned in? • Fighting against slavery • where was the turning point • A slave who sued for freedom • March from Georgia to Atlanta • War between Union & Confederate • what was the main causes of death • ...