civil war Crossword Puzzles

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 2026-05-07

Civil war crossword puzzle
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  1. Soldiers on guard duty
  2. the most common medical procedure
  3. What the South wants
  4. This killed almost 600,00 men
  5. women doctor who fixed the amputation problem during civil war
  6. The next phase
  7. President of the United States
  8. steam-propelled warship
  9. Blocked southern ports
  10. Fought against the south
  11. A tissue eating bacteria that appeared during amputations
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  1. The modern wave enters
  2. Soldiers on horseback
  3. Soldiers who fought on foot
  4. Cure for gangrene
  5. What carried soldiers to war
  6. What changed communication forever
  7. Fought for slavery
  8. Large cabin guns
  9. soldiers in artillery

20 Clues: The next phase • Large cabin guns • Cure for gangrene • Fought for slavery • What the South wants • Soldiers on horseback • soldiers in artillery • Soldiers on guard duty • The modern wave enters • Blocked southern ports • steam-propelled warship • Fought against the south • Soldiers who fought on foot • What carried soldiers to war • This killed almost 600,00 men • ...

Civil War Battle Strategies 2019-05-19

Civil War Battle Strategies crossword puzzle
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  1. a powerful place that hurt the confederacy when it was lost
  2. military strategy proposed by Union General Winfield Scott early in the American Civil War. The plan called for a naval blockade of the Confederate littoral, a thrust down the Mississippi, and the strangulation of the South by Union land and naval forces.
  3. led the nation through the bloodiest war known to mankind
  4. amount of people killed it the civil war
  5. the butcher of the civil war, lost 7000 men in half an hour
  6. former president of the confederate states
  7. the interdiction of a nation's lines of communication at sea by the use of naval power. Type of: blockade, encirclement. a war measure that isolates some area of importance to the enemy.
  8. led the confederate soldiers.
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  1. the home where Robert Lee surrendered
  2. northern civil war soldiers
  3. killed abe
  4. destroyed everything he came across, burnt everything
  5. Led the anaconda plan
  6. was to lead the unions massive army against Robert E. Lee
  7. southern civil war soldiers

15 Clues: killed abe • Led the anaconda plan • northern civil war soldiers • southern civil war soldiers • led the confederate soldiers. • the home where Robert Lee surrendered • amount of people killed it the civil war • former president of the confederate states • destroyed everything he came across, burnt everything • led the nation through the bloodiest war known to mankind • ...

The American Civil War 2019-05-19

The American Civil War crossword puzzle
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  1. The Civil War was one of the first of these
  2. There was a famous speech made here
  3. many southerners were previously
  4. this battle occurred on September Seventeenth, Eighteen Sixty-Two
  5. the Civil War is known for being the
  6. the time, in years, that the civil war lasted
  7. Every one-hundred and fifty people in one-thousand were
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  1. a major battle was fought here during the American revolution
  2. my topic is which War?
  3. This is what the Union Army was called
  4. major cause of death
  5. the court house where the south surrendered
  6. This is what the Confederate Army was called
  7. many people lost their lives in
  8. Main cause of the war

15 Clues: major cause of death • Main cause of the war • my topic is which War? • many people lost their lives in • many southerners were previously • There was a famous speech made here • the Civil War is known for being the • This is what the Union Army was called • The Civil War was one of the first of these • the court house where the south surrendered • ...

Civil War Crossword 2013-02-21

Civil War Crossword crossword puzzle
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  1. One of the best generals the war had
  2. First shots fired of the war at what fort
  3. Name for the south
  4. Name for the north
  5. Rebuilding the south
  6. First battle of the civil war
  7. What theater was Lincoln shot at
  8. What courthouse did Lee surrender at
  9. Fiber grown in plantations
  10. Union general that war fired many times
  11. Where you get selected to fight in the war
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  1. Turning point for the union in the war
  2. Withdrawing from the union
  3. Fortress on the Mississippi river
  4. Right to know why you're being detained
  5. Payed 300 dollars to not fight in the war
  6. Northern democrats that apposed the war
  7. Tax set to pay for the debt of the war
  8. What plan did the north use in the civil war
  9. Southern ship
  10. Northern ship

21 Clues: Southern ship • Northern ship • Name for the south • Name for the north • Rebuilding the south • Withdrawing from the union • Fiber grown in plantations • First battle of the civil war • What theater was Lincoln shot at • Fortress on the Mississippi river • One of the best generals the war had • What courthouse did Lee surrender at • Turning point for the union in the war • ...

Causes of the Civil War/Civil War 2022-05-17

Causes of the Civil War/Civil War crossword puzzle
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  1. slave that sued for his freedom
  2. Union plan to win the Civil War
  3. last Confederate stronghold on Miss. River
  4. created the KS-NE Act
  5. Civil War battle fought in Pennsylvania
  6. killed 5 pro-slavery men in Kansas
  7. 16th POTUS
  8. ship covered by iron plates
  9. iron-clad ship of the Confederacy
  10. Union "victory" in Maryland
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  1. Southern Democrat candidate for POTUS
  2. Senator from MA, beaten by Rep. Preston Brooks
  3. Pres. of the Confederate States of America
  4. Uncle Tom's _________
  5. created Missouri Compromise
  6. the Civil War started when this fort was bombed
  7. leader of the Confederate army
  8. war war on enemy's will to fight/support an army
  9. agreed to surrender terms with Gen. Lee
  10. Union state that had slaves
  11. wanted slavery banned in lands won from Mexico
  12. MO became a slave state; this state was free

22 Clues: 16th POTUS • Uncle Tom's _________ • created the KS-NE Act • created Missouri Compromise • Union state that had slaves • ship covered by iron plates • Union "victory" in Maryland • leader of the Confederate army • slave that sued for his freedom • Union plan to win the Civil War • iron-clad ship of the Confederacy • killed 5 pro-slavery men in Kansas • ...

naturalization #3 2025-04-24

naturalization #3 crossword puzzle
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  1. 9/11
  2. west coast ocean
  3. led to the Civil War
  4. tried to end racial discrimination
  5. father of our country
  6. document that freed the slaves
  7. fought for civil rights
  8. longest river
  9. Native American tribe
  10. was fought in the 1900s
  11. fought for women's rights
  12. east coast ocean
  13. was written in 1787
  14. number of original states
  15. president who freed the slaves
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  1. was president during the Great Depression
  2. territory bought in 1803
  3. first president
  4. Star Spangled Banner
  5. where the Constitution was written
  6. wrote the Declaration of Independence
  7. first postmaster
  8. the USA fought during WWII
  9. was president during World War I
  10. the date of the Declaration of Independence in 1771
  11. borders Mexico
  12. war fought in 1800s
  13. was a writer of the Constitution
  14. a general in World War II
  15. the main concern of the USA during the Cold War

30 Clues: 9/11 • longest river • borders Mexico • first president • west coast ocean • first postmaster • east coast ocean • war fought in 1800s • was written in 1787 • Star Spangled Banner • led to the Civil War • father of our country • Native American tribe • fought for civil rights • was fought in the 1900s • territory bought in 1803 • fought for women's rights • a general in World War II • ...

Civil War and Reconstruction 2025-02-03

Civil War and Reconstruction crossword puzzle
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  1. Battle strategy implemented by the Union to cut off supplies for the Confederacy
  2. Issue that tore the United States apart and led to secession and the Civil War
  3. Texas governor that urged Texans to remain loyal or neutral to the United States
  4. The South's argument to preserve slavery
  5. Holiday celebrating when slaves in Texas learned of their freedom
  6. President during the Civil War but was killed days after the end of the war
  7. Political party that wanted to return to the antebellum South following the Civil War
  8. Person who assassinated President Lincoln
  9. Process of rebuilding the South and reuniting the Union
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  1. Battle that prevented the Union from gaining access to a major railroad in Houston
  2. Type of agriculture popular in the South during the Civil War era
  3. Means of communication using electrical wires, signals, and Morse code
  4. Confederate forces recaptured the port and it remained in their hands until the end of the war
  5. In 1861, southern states broke away from the Union
  6. Group of people that carried out roles during the Civil War normally maintained by men
  7. War that caused a decline in cotton production

16 Clues: The South's argument to preserve slavery • Person who assassinated President Lincoln • War that caused a decline in cotton production • In 1861, southern states broke away from the Union • Process of rebuilding the South and reuniting the Union • Type of agriculture popular in the South during the Civil War era • ...

Civil War 2021-05-31

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

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. • First state to secede from the Union. • What former slaves gained in the 1868 • Occupation of the man who killed Lincoln • Did the South get involved with the war? • ...

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

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 • What former slaves gained in the 1868 • First state to secede from the Union. • Did Europe get involved with the war? • Occupation of the man who killed Lincoln • ...

Civil War 2021-05-31

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

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 2022-10-04

civil war crossword puzzle
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  1. Banned Europe from colonizing western Hem.
  2. Union wins, advance into Mississippi River Valley
  3. State that seceded first
  4. "perfect battle" for Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson is accidentally killed
  5. Assassinated Abraham Lincoln
  6. Escaped salve, influential abolitionist
  7. Aggressive, white, abortionist, led raid against US army
  8. Last General of the union, smart statistician and alcoholic
  9. The winner of the Civil War
  10. delivered Emancipation Proclamation
  11. One of the most famous battles of Civil War, turning point in war
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  1. Nicknamed "Stonewall" at battle of Bull Run
  2. Plan to deprive south of outside goods
  3. Person who wanted to see slavery end
  4. Southern General that stopped McClellan from taking Richmond
  5. General for Lincoln, afraid to lose soldiers
  6. Increased demand for slaves in south
  7. First major battle of civil war near DC, 60,000 troops
  8. Slave that sued for freedom on free soil
  9. Bloodiest day in American history

20 Clues: State that seceded first • The winner of the Civil War • Assassinated Abraham Lincoln • Bloodiest day in American history • delivered Emancipation Proclamation • Person who wanted to see slavery end • Increased demand for slaves in south • Plan to deprive south of outside goods • Escaped salve, influential abolitionist • Slave that sued for freedom on free soil • ...

Civil War 2022-12-02

Civil War crossword puzzle
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  1. Brown, Famous abolitionist leader who is infamous for his failed incitement of a slave rebellion at Harpers Ferry
  2. Tompkins, Performed so well as a nurse that she was eventually commissioned as a captain
  3. Barton, Union nurse who founded the American Red Cross after the war
  4. Jackson, This Confederate general "stood there like a stonewall" at the battle of Bull Run
  5. Lincoln, President of the United States/The Union
  6. The party Abraham Lincoln belonged to, and many other abolitionists.
  7. tax, A tax that takes a specified percentage of an individual’s income
  8. Proclamation, promised the freedom of enslaved people in the Confederacy
  9. Sumter, Union controlled fort on an island in Charleston Harber
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  1. Britain, European country that had reasons to intervene on either side of the Civil War but remained neutral
  2. Davis, President of The Confederacy
  3. Bloodiest battle in the war resulting in 26,000 casualties.
  4. G. Farragut, Commanded 40 Union ships and took New Orleans
  5. An involuntary draft for men to serve in the army
  6. Corpus, forbade the government to hold citizens without charging them for any crime but was suspended on both sides of the civil war
  7. E. Lee, Confederate general who took control of Joseph E. Johnston's army and fought in Antietam
  8. McClellan, Union general who was appointed by lincoln after the Union's failure at bull run, but was removed from command after he lost a chance to win the war after Antietam
  9. S. Grant, Union general who led the invasion of Tennessee and captured Fort Henry and Fort Donelson
  10. The view that advocated for the immediate emancipation of slavery without compensation
  11. Douglass, African American who escaped slavery and was then able to advocate for abolition. Published the North Star

20 Clues: Davis, President of The Confederacy • An involuntary draft for men to serve in the army • Lincoln, President of the United States/The Union • G. Farragut, Commanded 40 Union ships and took New Orleans • Bloodiest battle in the war resulting in 26,000 casualties. • Sumter, Union controlled fort on an island in Charleston Harber • ...

civil war 2019-06-03

civil war crossword puzzle
Across
  1. the United States
  2. the orientation of those who favor government by the people
  3. a region where a battle is being (or has been) fought
  4. any of the southern states in which slavery was legal prior to the American Civil War
  5. Sumter Union military post in South Carolina which was taken over by the Confederacy in 1861.
  6. General for the South
  7. Civil War battle in which 25,000 men were killed or wounded
  8. Document freeing slaves in Union
  9. President of the Confederacy
  10. formal separation from an alliance or federation
  11. a member of the Union Army during the American Civil War
  12. Rapid-fire gun capable of shooting 600 rounds per minute.
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  1. Union general who believed in TOTAL WAR
  2. General of the Confederacy considered to be one of the greatest generals of all time
  3. Successful Union general who attended West Point Military Academy
  4. the region of the United States lying to the north of the Mason-Dixon line
  5. A series of agreements passed by Congress in 1820-1821 to maintain the balance of power
  6. Turning point of the Civil War that made it clear the North would win
  7. A law that allowed voters in Kansas and Nebraska to choose whether to allow slavery or not.
  8. President of the United States of America during the Civil War
  9. The fall of Vicksburg, Mississippi, to General Ulysses S. Grant's army
  10. Device that allowed messages to be sent by wires over long distances
  11. The march of an army of 62,000 men from Atlanta toward Savannah, Georgia
  12. of or having to do with the southern Confederacy during the American Civil War
  13. the southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861
  14. the region of the United States lying to the south of the Mason-Dixon line

26 Clues: the United States • General for the South • President of the Confederacy • Document freeing slaves in Union • Union general who believed in TOTAL WAR • formal separation from an alliance or federation • a region where a battle is being (or has been) fought • a member of the Union Army during the American Civil War • ...

Civil War 2019-01-31

Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Began career at 25 and began as a Illinois state legislature whig
  2. Fed fort in Charleston South Carolina where first shots were fired
  3. A political agreement that admitted California to the Union as a free state while permitting popular sovereignty in the territories and enacting a stricter fugitive slave law
  4. Union General also 18th president
  5. Abolitionist government of Massachusetts
  6. Civil War battle fought on Union Territory
  7. A military tactic in which a navy prevents vessels from entering or leaving its enemy's ports
  8. Judges son from Ohio renowned Union General during Civil War
  9. During the Civil War a state that allowed slavery but remained in the Union: Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri
  10. Civil War killing 23,000 troops in one day
  11. 2 days of fighting killing nearly 25,000 soldiers
Down
  1. Law giving 160 acres to citizens willing to live on it for 5 years
  2. Formally withdraw from membership in group or organization
  3. Existed before civil war to help slaves escaped to safety
  4. A term used to describe the violence between proslavery and antislavery supporters in Kansas from 1854 to 1856
  5. Government of 11 states that seceded from United States and fought against Union
  6. Required all citizens to aid in apprehending runaway slaves
  7. Born into slavery in Maryland and escaped to Philadelphia
  8. Anti-slavery political party in mid-1800
  9. Declared free all enslaved people living in confederate states and territories
  10. Southern Planter and became President Confederate states
  11. Anti-slavery novel published by Harriet Beecher Stowe
  12. Principle in which people are a source of government power
  13. African American born to slavery and sued for freedom
  14. Party established on anti-slavery in 1854
  15. Divided the 2 states to let them choose to be a slave or free state

26 Clues: Union General also 18th president • Anti-slavery political party in mid-1800 • Abolitionist government of Massachusetts • Party established on anti-slavery in 1854 • Civil War battle fought on Union Territory • Civil War killing 23,000 troops in one day • 2 days of fighting killing nearly 25,000 soldiers • Anti-slavery novel published by Harriet Beecher Stowe • ...

CIVIL WAR 2019-02-16

CIVIL WAR crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Virginia born Union General who developed the Anaconda Plan and was the Commander of all US forces in 1861
  2. Confederate supported who assassinated President Lincoln
  3. ADDRESS / famous speech by President Lincoln that reaffirmed the ideas for which the Union was fighting
  4. Outstanding Confederate Virginia military leader who opposed secession and slavery
  5. Military decree by President Lincoln that freed enslaved people living in Confederate states still in rebellion
  6. Skilled and cautious Union General who replaced Irvin McDowell after the Battle of Bull Run
  7. Union General who pursued the Mississippi Valley wing of the Anaconda Plan and led at the Battle of Shiloh
  8. Journalist whose exhibition "The Dead at Antietam" provided graphic evidence of the carnage of the battlefield
  9. CORPUS / Constitutional right that protects a person from being held in jail without being charged with a specific crime
  10. Missouri, Kentucky, Delaware, and Maryland; allowed slavery but had not joined the Confederacy
  11. Captured war supplies
  12. WAR / strategy that involved striking civilian, as well as military targets
  13. Northern Civil War strategy to starve the South by blockading seaports and controlling the Mississippi River
Down
  1. All-black Union Civil War unit led by Colonel Robert Shaw
  2. 1862 law that made Western land available at a low cost to those willing to farm it
  3. Union General who declared that enslaved African Americans who came under his command in Missouri were free
  4. OF GETTYSBURG / decisive three day battle that resulted in more than 50,000 deaths and was the last Confederate attempt to invade the North
  5. Military tactic in which a navy prevents vessels from entering or leaving its enemy's ports
  6. Bloodiest single day of the Civil War
  7. The draft; instituted to to meet the need for troops
  8. Confederate hero in Manassas who refused to yield to the Union
  9. 1865 constitutional amendment that abolished slavery in the United States
  10. / Military tactic in which an army surrounds an enemy and cuts off all supplies in an attempt to force surrender
  11. Peace Democrats, opposed to Lincoln's conduct of the war who demanded an end to the fighting
  12. 1862 law mandating black soldiers to serve in the Union military
  13. / Confederate stronghold on the Mississippi River that surrendered to Union forces in 1863 after a siege
  14. SHERMAN / Union General who implemented the total-war strategy during his "March to the Sea" to capture Savannah, Georgia
  15. BARTON / nursed Union soldiers in the Civil War; founded the American Branch of the International Red Cross

28 Clues: Captured war supplies • Bloodiest single day of the Civil War • The draft; instituted to to meet the need for troops • Confederate supported who assassinated President Lincoln • All-black Union Civil War unit led by Colonel Robert Shaw • Confederate hero in Manassas who refused to yield to the Union • 1862 law mandating black soldiers to serve in the Union military • ...

Civil War 2019-04-26

Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. A group of northern Democrats who opposed abolition and sympathized with the South during the Civil War.
  2. General of the Confederacy.
  3. States between the north and the south: Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri.
  4. A very bloody battle in the civil war.
  5. A person who worked to end slavery.
  6. She led over 300 slaves to freedom, because of her bravery she is the symbol of the Underground Railroad.
  7. President of the Confederacy.
  8. General for the Union, later became 18th President.
Down
  1. A policy of favoring native-born individuals over foreign-born ones.
  2. The defeat of Robert E. Lee's invading Confederate Army was a major victory for the Union.
  3. Nurse during the Civil War; founder of the American Red Cross.
  4. An international organization dedicated to the medical care of the sick or wounded in wars and natural disasters.
  5. A former slave who sued for his freedom in the Supreme Court.
  6. South Carolina, April 12-14, 1861. This was the start of the Civil War.
  7. A political party dedicated to stopping the expansion of slavery.
  8. Act passed in 1854 that created Kansas and Nebraska territories and abolished the Missouri Compromise by allowing states to determine whether slavery would be allowed in new territories.
  9. The location of a brutal massacre in which confederate troops shot more than 200 black prisoners and some whites.
  10. The treatment of people as property. People who are denied freedom in this way are said to be enslaved.
  11. Virginia, July 1st, 1861. This was the first major land battle of Civil War.
  12. To separate from the Union.

20 Clues: General of the Confederacy. • To separate from the Union. • President of the Confederacy. • A person who worked to end slavery. • A very bloody battle in the civil war. • General for the Union, later became 18th President. • A former slave who sued for his freedom in the Supreme Court. • Nurse during the Civil War; founder of the American Red Cross. • ...

Civil War 2019-04-26

Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. An international organization dedicated to the medical care of the sick or wounded in wars and natural disasters.
  2. Nurse during the Civil War; founder of the American Red Cross.
  3. General of the Confederacy.
  4. States between the north and the south: Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri.
  5. A group of northern Democrats who opposed abolition and sympathized with the South during the Civil War.
  6. The defeat of Robert E. Lee's invading Confederate Army was a major victory for the Union.
  7. A very bloody battle in the civil war.
  8. Act passed in 1854 that created Kansas and Nebraska territories and abolished the Missouri Compromise by allowing states to determine whether slavery would be allowed in new territories.
  9. General for the Union, later became 18th President.
  10. A policy of favoring native-born individuals over foreign-born ones.
Down
  1. To separate from the Union.
  2. Virginia, July 1st, 1861. This was the first major land battle of Civil War.
  3. South Carolina, April 12-14, 1861. This was the start of the Civil War.
  4. The location of a brutal massacre in which confederate troops shot more than 200 black prisoners and some whites.
  5. A former slave who sued for his freedom in the Supreme Court.
  6. She led over 300 slaves to freedom, because of her bravery she is the symbol of the Underground Railroad.
  7. A political party dedicated to stopping the expansion of slavery.
  8. President of the Confederacy.
  9. A person who worked to end slavery.
  10. The treatment of people as property. People who are denied freedom in this way are said to be enslaved.

20 Clues: To separate from the Union. • General of the Confederacy. • President of the Confederacy. • A person who worked to end slavery. • A very bloody battle in the civil war. • General for the Union, later became 18th President. • A former slave who sued for his freedom in the Supreme Court. • Nurse during the Civil War; founder of the American Red Cross. • ...

Civil War 2019-04-26

Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. General for the Union, later became 18th President.
  2. A policy of favoring native-born individuals over foreign-born ones.
  3. General of the Confederacy.
  4. Nurse during the Civil War; founder of the American Red Cross.
  5. President of the Confederacy.
  6. To separate from the Union.
  7. She led over 300 slaves to freedom, because of her bravery she is the symbol of the Underground Railroad.
  8. The defeat of Robert E. Lee's invading Confederate Army was a major victory for the Union.
Down
  1. A political party dedicated to stopping the expansion of slavery.
  2. South Carolina, April 12-14, 1861. This was the start of the Civil War.
  3. A person who worked to end slavery.
  4. The location of a brutal massacre in which confederate troops shot more than 200 black prisoners and some whites.
  5. Act passed in 1854 that created Kansas and Nebraska territories and abolished the Missouri Compromise by allowing states to determine whether slavery would be allowed in new territories.
  6. States between the north and the south: Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri.
  7. A very bloody battle in the civil war.
  8. An international organization dedicated to the medical care of the sick or wounded in wars and natural disasters.
  9. The treatment of people as property. People who are denied freedom in this way are said to be enslaved.
  10. A group of northern Democrats who opposed abolition and sympathized with the South during the Civil War.
  11. A former slave who sued for his freedom in the Supreme Court.
  12. Virginia, July 1st, 1861. This was the first major land battle of Civil War.

20 Clues: General of the Confederacy. • To separate from the Union. • President of the Confederacy. • A person who worked to end slavery. • A very bloody battle in the civil war. • General for the Union, later became 18th President. • A former slave who sued for his freedom in the Supreme Court. • Nurse during the Civil War; founder of the American Red Cross. • ...

Civil War 2019-12-15

Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Confederate attempted to destroyed part of the Unions force
  2. First major battle in western theater of war
  3. Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin
  4. First and only Confederate president.
  5. Largest Battle in America
  6. States wanted rights
  7. Took over after Lincoln died
  8. Where Lee unofficially surrendered
  9. Known as the Union army's greatest victory
  10. How slaves escaped
  11. First major battle
  12. Served as Commander in Chief of the Union Army
  13. Navy try to keep supplies from entering or leaving the confederacy
  14. Territory that south wanted to have slaves in
  15. A ship war that ended in a tie
  16. Confederate invaded Maryland and it resulted in a Union victory
  17. President during the war
  18. Rebuilding after the war
  19. Last war
  20. Confederates depend on it
  21. People who try to stop slavery
Down
  1. Lost half of the states afterward
  2. Raided Harpers ferry
  3. Abolitionist who convinced Lincoln to let African Americans to serve in the war
  4. Confederates didn't like it
  5. Invented cotton gin
  6. Commander of the Confederate Army of Northern VA
  7. Last major port owned by the South
  8. Part 2 of the First major battle
  9. By John Wilkes Booth
  10. Lincoln frees slaves
  11. Signer of the Kansas-Nebraska act
  12. Accidental War
  13. After Southern states seceded
  14. Campaign to destroy the confederate
  15. Confederate general serving under Robert E. Lee
  16. First state to secede
  17. Spy during the war
  18. Slaves went rogue
  19. Date that the Confederate surrendered

40 Clues: Last war • Accidental War • Slaves went rogue • How slaves escaped • First major battle • Spy during the war • Invented cotton gin • Raided Harpers ferry • By John Wilkes Booth • Lincoln frees slaves • States wanted rights • First state to secede • President during the war • Rebuilding after the war • Largest Battle in America • Confederates depend on it • Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin • ...

Civil War 2020-01-17

Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Who supported the church of England?
  2. In what year did Charles l go broke and called the parliament into session?
  3. How was the army of supporters of Oliver Cromwell known as?
  4. Who wasn’t happy with the king adding new taxes?
  5. Who were a religious group of people that wanted to purify the church of England and were in control of the parliament?
  6. His successor was Charles l and lived a life of luxury until he needed more money.
  7. What did England turn to after the new parliament ended monarchy?
  8. What did Oliver Cromwell set up after he dismissed the new parliament?
  9. What house was abolished and destroyed?
  10. In what year did Oliver Cromwell dismiss the new parliament?
Down
  1. Who were the kings and queens in Europe that believed they ruled by divine right.
  2. In what year was Charles l convicted and beheaded as traitor?
  3. What country did King Charles l say he needed money for to do a war?
  4. Who refused against king James l to add more taxes?
  5. Who was the leader of the Puritans?
  6. What house was allowed to remain, also known as the parliament?
  7. Who started the Civil War and believed his power was absolute?
  8. How were the supporters of King Charles l known as?
  9. In what year did Oliver Cromwell’s forces defeat Charles’ Cavaliers?
  10. What happened in 1642 between King Charles l and the puritans?

20 Clues: Who was the leader of the Puritans? • Who supported the church of England? • What house was abolished and destroyed? • Who wasn’t happy with the king adding new taxes? • Who refused against king James l to add more taxes? • How were the supporters of King Charles l known as? • How was the army of supporters of Oliver Cromwell known as? • ...

Civil war 2020-12-03

Civil war crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Who lead the march of Atlanta
  2. the bloodiest battle
  3. a confederate general
  4. the person responsible for the Missouri compromise
  5. A place where one crop is mass produced and taken care of by slaves
  6. a place where slaves worked and grew a lot of crops
  7. to get rid of something
  8. The north
  9. the 18th president
  10. an invention that made cotton easier to harvest
  11. Railroad A series of hiding places that were used to get slaves out of slavery
  12. A former slave who has been released from slavery
  13. To leave
  14. The turning point in the war
Down
  1. A person who supported the abolition of slavery
  2. An inhabitant of New England or one of the northern states
  3. The president during the American civil war
  4. author of the newspaper the North Star
  5. murderer of Abraham Lincoln
  6. a conductor on the underground railroad, born a slave in Maryland
  7. The belief that god gave the Americans everything from coast to coast
  8. the south states
  9. The amendment that got rid of slavery
  10. The official first battle of the civil war
  11. the first battle
  12. a Northerner who moved to the South after the American Civil War

26 Clues: To leave • The north • the south states • the first battle • the 18th president • the bloodiest battle • a confederate general • to get rid of something • murderer of Abraham Lincoln • The turning point in the war • Who lead the march of Atlanta • The amendment that got rid of slavery • author of the newspaper the North Star • The official first battle of the civil war • ...

CIVIL WAR 2021-01-24

CIVIL WAR crossword puzzle
Across
  1. to formally approve or sanction
  2. the south or confederate states
  3. to wait for an unexpected attack
  4. a state of bondage for African Americans
  5. also called the union or united states
  6. loyal to the government of the U.S.A
  7. resisting or protecting
  8. a troop like the national guard
  9. a series of military operations
  10. cap was worn by civil war soldiers
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  1. a stretcher which was carried by two people
  2. term used a hard cracker
  3. soldiers posted on guard ahead of the force
  4. somebody who favors abolition
  5. a branch of the military
  6. a metal blade like a long knife
  7. actively attacking someone
  8. promoting the interests sections or regions
  9. the lowest rank in the army
  10. manufacturing goods from raw materials

20 Clues: resisting or protecting • term used a hard cracker • a branch of the military • actively attacking someone • the lowest rank in the army • somebody who favors abolition • to formally approve or sanction • the south or confederate states • a metal blade like a long knife • a troop like the national guard • a series of military operations • to wait for an unexpected attack • ...

Civil War 2021-09-28

Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. dealt with the issue of slavery and territorial expansion.
  2. withdrawal of eleven southern states from the Union in 1860
  3. Compromise of 1850
  4. Meade's Union forces defeated Lee's Confederate army
  5. an escaped slave who became a prominent activist, author and public speaker.
  6. president elected in 1860
  7. repealed the missouri compromise
  8. a president of the confederate states of america
  9. A person in favor of abolishing some law, custom, etc.
Down
  1. Stephen Douglas' position that slavery could be excluded from a territory if officials did not pass laws to protect it.
  2. the document writte by lincoln that govermently freed all the southern slaves
  3. what the confederate soldiers thought they were fighting for
  4. court case decided that slaves who were descendants of American slaves were not citizens of the United States
  5. The act required that slaves be returned to their owners
  6. fort controlled by the union in S.C
  7. the opposite of democratic party
  8. a document written in 1854 to annex cuba
  9. abolitonist raid on harpers ferry
  10. the unions plan to ruin the southern economy
  11. exaggerated devotion to the interests of a region over those of a country as a whole.

20 Clues: Compromise of 1850 • president elected in 1860 • the opposite of democratic party • repealed the missouri compromise • abolitonist raid on harpers ferry • fort controlled by the union in S.C • a document written in 1854 to annex cuba • the unions plan to ruin the southern economy • a president of the confederate states of america • ...

Civil War 2021-02-26

Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Confederate General Thomas Jackson nickname
  2. Confederate general that lost his leg
  3. Battle with the most casualties
  4. Freed by the Emancipation Proclamation
  5. The amount of Draws
  6. Many battles occurred east of this state
  7. Short & famous speech given by Lincoln
  8. Texans help the Confederacy by supplying these
  9. The state the battle of the Second Bull Run was
Down
  1. Battle that was Grant’s biggest defeat by Lee
  2. Slaves lived in these
  3. Texas becomes the # state to join the Confederacy
  4. The North was also called by this "uniting" name
  5. Won the battle of Chickamauga
  6. fought the North
  7. Opposite of slave states
  8. Cause of the civil war
  9. Assassin of Lincoln
  10. Enslaved peoples job
  11. Where did the Civil War began
  12. President during the civil war

21 Clues: fought the North • The amount of Draws • Assassin of Lincoln • Enslaved peoples job • Slaves lived in these • Cause of the civil war • Opposite of slave states • Won the battle of Chickamauga • Where did the Civil War began • President during the civil war • Battle with the most casualties • Confederate general that lost his leg • Freed by the Emancipation Proclamation • ...

Civil War 2021-03-30

Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Plan used by the North to "strangle" the South.
  2. The President of the Union
  3. This battle was the turning point in the War
  4. Freed slaves in rebelled states.
  5. The Union General in the Western Theatre.
  6. This battle was the Bloodiest one-day battle.
  7. Union got control of Mississippi in this siege.
  8. This was the first battle of the Civil War.
  9. The main Union General
  10. 1st non-native American to get the Medal of Honor.
  11. The main Confederate General
Down
  1. 1st African American to get the Medal of Honor
  2. Freed slaves & Union worth fighting for
  3. The President of the Confederacy
  4. Name of the Courthouse where Lee surrendered.
  5. Name the 1st speech a President gives.
  6. This battle was the 1st true fighting of the War.
  7. General Jackson's nickname from Bull Run
  8. The person who led the 54th Massachusetts Infantry.
  9. The person who killed President Lincoln.

20 Clues: The main Union General • The President of the Union • The main Confederate General • The President of the Confederacy • Freed slaves in rebelled states. • Name the 1st speech a President gives. • Freed slaves & Union worth fighting for • General Jackson's nickname from Bull Run • The person who killed President Lincoln. • The Union General in the Western Theatre. • ...

Civil War 2021-10-07

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

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. • the act of governing or exercising authority • An army of citizens used during emergencies. • Large caliber firearms like canons and mortars • ...

Civil War 2021-10-07

Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Isolation of area
  2. United States
  3. Bill of Rights has 10
  4. Act of owning another
  5. A tenant farmer
  6. Talking with an audience
  7. To rob
  8. Most opposed the ending of slavery
  9. Effort to end slavery
  10. Community military
  11. Seceded from Union
Down
  1. Made to redress inequality of slavery
  2. Town in Pennsylvania
  3. Organized choice by vote
  4. Divided on ending of slavery
  5. Southern white man who supported reconstitution
  6. Withdrawing; moving back
  7. Soldiers on horses
  8. Control of an area
  9. Death and or injury

20 Clues: To rob • United States • A tenant farmer • Isolation of area • Soldiers on horses • Control of an area • Community military • Seceded from Union • Death and or injury • Town in Pennsylvania • Bill of Rights has 10 • Act of owning another • Effort to end slavery • Organized choice by vote • Withdrawing; moving back • Talking with an audience • Divided on ending of slavery • ...

Civil War 2023-02-16

Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. The bloodiest battle in the Civil War
  2. Confederate ship that sunk the Union vessel housatonic
  3. Risked her life to help wounded soldiers
  4. Means "before the war"
  5. The north
  6. The war between the north and south
  7. First battle in this fort
  8. Small, fast boats that can pass a blockade
  9. The deadliest day one battle in the civil war
  10. Where the confederates surrendered
  11. The south
Down
  1. Union leader during the battle in fort sumter
  2. Who had a march from Savannah to Atlanta Georgia
  3. Confederate leader during the battle in fort sumter
  4. The first state to scede from the Union
  5. Slave that escaped on a Confederate ship
  6. Union leader during Appomattox surrender
  7. Who captured Atlanta on September 2nd
  8. Freed slaves in territories owned by the south
  9. Confederate leader during Appomattox surrender

20 Clues: The north • The south • Means "before the war" • First battle in this fort • Where the confederates surrendered • The war between the north and south • The bloodiest battle in the Civil War • Who captured Atlanta on September 2nd • The first state to scede from the Union • Slave that escaped on a Confederate ship • Risked her life to help wounded soldiers • ...

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 2023-02-23

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 2023-02-23

Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. A cap worn by Civil War soldiers.
  2. A warship that is covered in iron cladding
  3. Sixteen president
  4. A nickname given to people in the South
  5. A canvas bag to carry food for soldiers
  6. People who were held captive
  7. Eighteen president
  8. first president
  9. A mammal that people rode on
  10. The side of an army or military unit
  11. A nickname for the Confederate States
Down
  1. When states choose to leave the United States
  2. A nickname for the union soldiers
  3. An army of citizens used during emergencies
  4. Soldiers that fight and travel by foot.
  5. A person who wanted to get rid of slavery
  6. A weapon that people used to shoot
  7. A nickname for southern whites
  8. Putting the local interests above the country
  9. Red, white, and blue

20 Clues: first president • Sixteen president • Eighteen president • Red, white, and blue • People who were held captive • A mammal that people rode on • A nickname for southern whites • A nickname for the union soldiers • A cap worn by Civil War soldiers. • A weapon that people used to shoot • The side of an army or military unit • A nickname for the Confederate States • ...

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 2023-04-14

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 2023-04-14

Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. color of the confederate uniforms
  2. Civil
  3. type of cabin where lincoln grew up in
  4. fought the north
  5. assassin of lincoln
  6. another name for a big farm in the South
  7. short and famous speech given by Abraham Lincoln
  8. union general who later became president
  9. another name for north
  10. last name of the confederate general-surrendered at Appomattox
  11. wife of Abe
  12. president during the Civil War
Down
  1. one of the capitals of the confederacy
  2. first state to leave the union
  3. where the Civil War began
  4. battle of bull
  5. vice president to Lincoln
  6. marched to Savannah
  7. Theatre where Lincoln was shot
  8. color of the Union uniforms

20 Clues: Civil • wife of Abe • battle of bull • fought the north • marched to Savannah • assassin of lincoln • another name for north • where the Civil War began • vice president to Lincoln • color of the Union uniforms • first state to leave the union • Theatre where Lincoln was shot • president during the Civil War • color of the confederate uniforms • one of the capitals of the confederacy • ...

Civil War 2023-04-06

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

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 • a male shot our president. • was killed by his own men. • is to withdraw from a group • is a thing that can last years • a male was shot and was our president. • A male person that went to goes to war. • is A female that started the red cross. • ...

Civil War 2023-04-14

Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. union gained control of the Mississippi river
  2. most controversial military figure
  3. Jacksons nickname
  4. also known as the german battle
  5. he was also the 18th president
  6. Union military commander
  7. win for both the Union and the Confederacy
  8. Lee called him "old war horse"
  9. battle where confederates had the best chance of holding off the unions
  10. senior officer
  11. senior civil army officer
Down
  1. man who was a civil war leader and engineer
  2. battle that happened april 12-13
  3. battle fought on December 11-15
  4. had the most casualties
  5. man that was assassinated on april 15 1865
  6. Andersons nickname
  7. longest battles
  8. first major battle
  9. general in the civil war, later was appointed over all commander

20 Clues: senior officer • longest battles • Jacksons nickname • Andersons nickname • first major battle • had the most casualties • Union military commander • senior civil army officer • he was also the 18th president • Lee called him "old war horse" • battle fought on December 11-15 • also known as the german battle • battle that happened april 12-13 • most controversial military figure • ...

Civil War 2023-05-10

Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. the Confederacy fired on this and this was the beginning of the Civil War
  2. the period after the war of rebuilding the country
  3. a freed slave who helped slaves to freedom through the Underground Railroad
  4. a person who wanted to ban all slavery
  5. a battle that ended with a Union Victory and was considered the turning point in the war
  6. the 16th president who led the Union to win the war
  7. the slaves’ worst experience, traveling across the Atlantic to America
  8. the leading black man who wanted to ban all slavery
  9. a group of former Confederate soldiers who beat and killed black people to put them under white control
  10. the president of the Confederate States of America
  11. black people who were freed because the Union won the war
  12. the person who distributed work and made sure they did what they were supposed to
Down
  1. a compromise that let settlers decide the slavery issue for themselves
  2. a free black man who could not sue because he was black
  3. the North during the war
  4. the period before the Civil War
  5. constitutionally abolished slavery
  6. a general who playd a major role in fighting for the Confederacy
  7. laws made for black people to put them beneath white people, and in some ways it was another form of slavery
  8. the South after it had seceded from the North

20 Clues: the North during the war • the period before the Civil War • constitutionally abolished slavery • a person who wanted to ban all slavery • the South after it had seceded from the North • the period after the war of rebuilding the country • the president of the Confederate States of America • the 16th president who led the Union to win the war • ...

Civil War 2023-05-11

Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. First major battle
  2. deadliest battle
  3. freed slaves in confederate states
  4. General in the confederate army
  5. Lincoln's speech that praised the bravery of Union soldiers and renewed his commitment to winning the Civil War.
  6. African American Soldier
  7. RobertELee surrender
  8. President of Confederate states
  9. Slave states that did not join the army
  10. Chilean immagrant
  11. Founder of the American Red Cross
Down
  1. Freeing of Slaves
  2. Ships armed with Iron
  3. Proclamation issued by Lincoln, freeing all slaves in areas still at war with the Union.
  4. name referring to the U.S
  5. North's plan to cut off supplies to the South through naval blockades
  6. Confederate people lost
  7. First shots beginning of the war
  8. Union General
  9. Famous person in the Civil War

20 Clues: Union General • deadliest battle • Freeing of Slaves • Chilean immagrant • First major battle • RobertELee surrender • Ships armed with Iron • Confederate people lost • African American Soldier • name referring to the U.S • Famous person in the Civil War • General in the confederate army • President of Confederate states • First shots beginning of the war • ...

Civil War 2023-05-10

Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. General who led the "March to the Sea"
  2. Political Party formed in 1854 opposing slavery
  3. Slave who sued for his freedom and lost
  4. President during the Civil War
  5. Amendment, Officially made slavery illegal in the U.S.
  6. Rebuilding period after the Civil War
  7. Ball, New bullet
  8. Railroad, used by slaves to escape the South
  9. Winner of the war
  10. New naval vessel
  11. Movement, Movement to end slavery
Down
  1. 3-day battle with 51,000 casualties, Union win
  2. Bloodiest day in American history
  3. Paper money
  4. Large farm that produces cash crops
  5. Proclamation, Declared slaves in the South to be free
  6. Top Union General
  7. Lincoln's assassin
  8. To break away
  9. Conductor on the Underground Railroad
  10. Lost the war
  11. States, Slave states that do NOT secede
  12. Confederate Capitol
  13. Toms Cabin, Book written about how bad slavery is
  14. Sumter, 1st shots of the Civil War
  15. Gin, Invention that increased the demand for slaves
  16. Confederate President
  17. Top Confederate General

28 Clues: Paper money • Lost the war • To break away • Ball, New bullet • New naval vessel • Top Union General • Winner of the war • Lincoln's assassin • Confederate Capitol • Confederate President • Top Confederate General • President during the Civil War • Bloodiest day in American history • Movement, Movement to end slavery • Sumter, 1st shots of the Civil War • Large farm that produces cash crops • ...

Civil War 2023-05-12

Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. freed the slaves
  2. where Lincoln was assassinated
  3. Single bloodiest day in the War
  4. Famous conductor of the Underground Railroad
  5. president of the Union
  6. to murder someone for political or religious reasons
Down
  1. someone who wanted to end slavery
  2. Former slave who was also an abolitionist
  3. what the North was called
  4. president of the Confederacy
  5. what the South was called
  6. First Shots in the War
  7. General of the Confederacy
  8. Turning point of the Civil War
  9. General of the Union
  10. President after Lincoln
  11. The strategy that the Union used to defeat the Confederacy
  12. Split the Confederacy in half
  13. first significant battle of the War
  14. The person who assassinated Lincoln

20 Clues: freed the slaves • General of the Union • First Shots in the War • president of the Union • President after Lincoln • what the North was called • what the South was called • General of the Confederacy • president of the Confederacy • Split the Confederacy in half • Turning point of the Civil War • where Lincoln was assassinated • Single bloodiest day in the War • ...

Civil War 2013-03-24

Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. of Shiloh 2 day battle the goriest battle in US history up to that point
  2. War a conflict between citizens of the same country
  3. Place of the John Brown raid
  4. A nickname for the confederate soldiers
  5. Famous locomotive that was captured in 1862
  6. J Davis had farmers grow food instead of tobacco and this product
  7. This Mississippi city was surrendered to Gen Grant in 1863
  8. This was the last battle of the 1862 peninsula campaign
  9. a nickname given to the northerners by the confederation
  10. This tore through the shirt of Clara Barthans killing the soldier she was helping
Down
  1. the main cause of the civil war to force other (usually African Americans to reform labor)
  2. Shiloh means this in Hebrew
  3. This southern state was was home to the first major battle of the Civil War
  4. NC city where Johnson surrendered to Sherman
  5. a nickname for the money used during the civil war
  6. This proclamation freed the slaves
  7. President Lincoln ordered this on the southern ports in 1861
  8. Person who shot President Lincoln
  9. Capital of the confederacy
  10. The battle of Shiloh was fought in this southern state

20 Clues: Capital of the confederacy • Shiloh means this in Hebrew • Place of the John Brown raid • Person who shot President Lincoln • This proclamation freed the slaves • A nickname for the confederate soldiers • Famous locomotive that was captured in 1862 • NC city where Johnson surrendered to Sherman • a nickname for the money used during the civil war • ...

Civil War 2013-04-11

Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. pride in your part of the country
  2. the souths war plan
  3. The states of Maryland, Delaware, Kentucky, and Missouri.
  4. the President in the North that governed during most of the civil war.
  5. the name the south gave itself during the war
  6. Loyal to the government of the United States. Also known as Union, Yankee, or Northern.
  7. A political party created in the 1850s to prevent the spread of slavery to the territories.
  8. The major political party in America most sympathetic to states rights and willing to tolerate the spread of slavery to the territories.
  9. Also called the Union or the United States, was the part of the country that remained loyal to the Federal government during the Civil War.
  10. Troops sent to strengthen a fighting force by adding an additional number of fresh soldiers.
  11. Land within the mainland boundaries of the country that had not yet become a state by 1861.
  12. Someone who wishes to abolish or get rid of slavery.
  13. To formally approve or sanction.
Down
  1. the movement to get women the right to vote
  2. was Douglas' campaign platform
  3. Also called the North or the United States
  4. A 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.
  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 large group of soldiers usually led by a brigadier general.
  7. said that states should have more power than the federal government
  8. Also called the South or the Confederate States of America
  9. a series of safe houses that slaves used to escape from slavery
  10. A crop such as tobacco or cotton which was grown to be sold for cash --not grown for food like corn or wheat.
  11. The largest organizational group of soldiers, made up of one or more corps.
  12. Freedom from slavery.
  13. the North's war plan
  14. The effort by the North to keep ships from entering or leaving Southern ports.
  15. The area that is now Oklahoma
  16. A Northerner; someone loyal to the Federal government of the United States. Also, Union, Federal, or Northern.
  17. Manufacturing goods from raw materials, such as cloth from cotton or machine parts from iron.

30 Clues: the souths war plan • the North's war plan • Freedom from slavery. • The area that is now Oklahoma • was Douglas' campaign platform • To formally approve or sanction. • pride in your part of the country • Also called the North or the United States • the movement to get women the right to vote • the name the south gave itself during the war • ...

CIVIL WAR 2014-09-29

CIVIL WAR crossword puzzle
Across
  1. large gun that shoots metal or stone balls
  2. nickname for a southerner
  3. someone wounded or killed in action
  4. long knife or short sword
  5. the North
  6. a place where a battle is fought
  7. long gun used by soldiers in Civil War
  8. a hard cracker
  9. someone holding superior rank
  10. to rush toward an enemy
Down
  1. military mounted on horses
  2. required to join the armed forces
  3. the South
  4. sixteenth President
  5. enlisted man or woman
  6. container used to carry water
  7. to remove an arm or leg
  8. soldiers that fight on foot
  9. someone not in military
  10. nickname for a northerner
  11. someone who is legally owned by another

21 Clues: the South • the North • a hard cracker • sixteenth President • enlisted man or woman • to remove an arm or leg • someone not in military • to rush toward an enemy • nickname for a southerner • long knife or short sword • nickname for a northerner • military mounted on horses • soldiers that fight on foot • container used to carry water • someone holding superior rank • ...

Civil War 2014-04-09

Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. a person who dies for a great cause
  2. a storage place for weapons and ammunition
  3. is specified that slavery should be prohibited in any lands that might be acquired from Mexico
  4. leave
  5. missourians who traveled in armed groups to vote in Kansas's election in the mid 50's
  6. not to cast votes
  7. name given to northern whites who moved south after the civil war and supported the republicans
  8. withdrawal from the union
  9. power independent of the federal government that are reserved for the states by the constitution
  10. people killed or wounded
  11. armored naval vessels
  12. union soldiers
  13. war a conflict between citizens of the same country
  14. money given as a dewar, such as enlistment in the army
Down
  1. a general increasing in price
  2. preserved the balance between slaves and free states
  3. confederate armies were sometimes called this
  4. or free
  5. a legal order for an inquiry to determine whether a person has been lawfully imprisoned
  6. northern money was called this
  7. cut off an area by means of troops or warships to stop supplies from coming in or going out; to close off a countries port
  8. or approved

22 Clues: leave • or free • or approved • union soldiers • not to cast votes • armored naval vessels • people killed or wounded • withdrawal from the union • a general increasing in price • northern money was called this • a person who dies for a great cause • a storage place for weapons and ammunition • confederate armies were sometimes called this • ...

Civil War 2014-05-07

Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. a personwho dies for a great cause
  2. people killed or wounded
  3. union soldiers
  4. a west point graduate and an experienced soldier
  5. withdrawl from the union
  6. was an enslaved african american bought by an army doctor
  7. took command of the army opposing McClain
  8. senator of south carolina countered with another propasal
  9. run away, slaves to their masters
  10. not to cast votes
  11. exaggerated loyalty to a particular region of the country
Down
  1. storage place for weapons
  2. sovereignty allowing the people to decide
  3. union commander at cario
  4. confederate army
  5. helped hundred escape slavery
  6. conflict between citizens of the same country
  7. went on the attack
  8. payments to encourage volunteers
  9. free

20 Clues: free • union soldiers • confederate army • not to cast votes • went on the attack • people killed or wounded • union commander at cario • withdrawl from the union • storage place for weapons • helped hundred escape slavery • payments to encourage volunteers • run away, slaves to their masters • a personwho dies for a great cause • sovereignty allowing the people to decide • ...

Civil War 2014-12-09

Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Land
  2. Oldest of American hate groups
  3. Strategy to defeat Confederacy
  4. Fought July 22, 1846
  5. Series of battles fought throughout northwest Georgia
  6. Passed in 1820 between pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions in US Congress
  7. Officially named Camp Sumter
  8. American politician from Georgia and VP of Confederate states of America
  9. Executed by Georgia Convention in response to Compromise of 1850
  10. Political powers reserved for US state governments
Down
  1. Farmer who raises crops for a piece of land
  2. Name given to military Savannah Campaign in Civil War
  3. Executive order issued by Abraham Lincoln
  4. Slave that lived in free state and moved to slave state
  5. Discriminatory state and local laws passed after Civil War
  6. Legal theory that a state has the right to invalidate a federal law
  7. Also known as Battle of Sharpsburg
  8. Allowed these states the option of allowing slavery
  9. Required all escaped slaves upon capture be returned to their masters
  10. Won by Abraham Lincoln
  11. Economic system under which people were treated as property
  12. Package of 5 separate bills passed between slave and free states
  13. Speech by Abraham Lincoln during American Civil War
  14. Lighter weight ship used to evade ports or straits
  15. Fought July 1-3, 1863

25 Clues: Fought July 22, 1846 • Fought July 1-3, 1863 • Won by Abraham Lincoln • Officially named Camp Sumter • Oldest of American hate groups • Strategy to defeat Confederacy • Also known as Battle of Sharpsburg • Executive order issued by Abraham Lincoln • Farmer who raises crops for a piece of land • Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Land • ...

Civil War 2014-10-05

Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. battle fought July 1-3 1863
  2. graduate of west point and a chief aide in the Mexican American war and assumed command of confederate army
  3. northern commander before Ulysses S. Grant
  4. confederate general
  5. first shots of the Civil War were fired here
  6. northern democrat who supported popular sovereignty
  7. People would vote on rather to allow slavery or not
  8. issued January 1, 1863 and freed the slaves in the states in the rebellion against the union
  9. Created the underground railroad
  10. Written by Harriet Beecher in 1852, motivated people in the north to support abolition
  11. Republican who became president in 1860 and was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth
Down
  1. 18th President of the United States; commander of the Union armies in the American Civil War
  2. opposed slavery in new territories
  3. union morale law after defeat at second battle of bull run
  4. African American Unit
  5. One of the two major political parties in the United States.
  6. sectional crisis during the presidency of Andrew Jackson created by South Carolina's 1832 Ordinance of Nullification
  7. slave owners could recover slaves who ran away to free states
  8. becomes the president of the confederate states of America
  9. US army general who took control of western front after Grant's appointment
  10. The leading southern politician of the early nineteenth century; he served as vice president under both John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson and then was elected senator from South Carolina.
  11. led by social reformers, William Lloyd Garrison, founder of the American Anti-Slavery Society; writers such as John Greenleaf Whittier and Harriet Beecher Stowe.
  12. Where Robert E. Lee and his troops surrendered
  13. destroyed southern cities and railways to trap
  14. non-supporters of the Civil War

25 Clues: confederate general • African American Unit • battle fought July 1-3 1863 • non-supporters of the Civil War • Created the underground railroad • opposed slavery in new territories • northern commander before Ulysses S. Grant • first shots of the Civil War were fired here • Where Robert E. Lee and his troops surrendered • destroyed southern cities and railways to trap • ...

Civil War 2014-12-10

Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. 1) owned their own tools 2) owns their own animals
  2. 1) A slave was suing his owner 2) do you slave lost and was returned to his owner
  3. 1) made African-American citizens of the United States 2) required that African-Americans are given the same rights as all US citizens
  4. 1) Led by Alexander Stevens 2) prevented the Civil War for 11 years
  5. 1) A.k.a. Sherman's march through Georgia 2) lead to separate military campaigns in the state of Georgia
  6. 1) private citizens who took the risk of invading the Union blockade for a chance at huge profits 2) were supposed to make it to Europe
  7. 1) A famous speech Pres. Abraham Lincoln gave 2) after the "turning point" of the Civil War
  8. 1) California was admitted as a free state 2) The fugitive slave act was created
  9. 1) one of the major conflicts of the Civil War 2) The amount of power the local and federal government had to make decisions
  10. 1) The return of runaway slaves 2) was included in the compromise of 1850
  11. 1) Brought nothing but their labor 2) had to buy tools from the landowner
  12. 1) The final event that led to the Civil War 2) Abraham Lincoln, John Beckenridge, john bell, and Stephen Douglas ran for president
  13. 1) most prominent black legislator 2) elected to the constitutional convention of 1867 and the Georgia House of Representatives
  14. 1) begin 1867 in Tennessee 2) intimidated freed blacks and white Republicans
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  1. 1) officially ended slavery 2) due to the passage of this, George was readmitted into the union
  2. 1) A.k.a. the Union blockade 2) prevented the south from shipping cotton to England
  3. 1) an example of popular sovereignty 2) The states could choose if they want to be slave states or free states
  4. 1) The "turning point"of the Civil War 2) The South retreated back to Virginia
  5. 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
  6. 1) begin or 15th, 1864 and ended December 21, 1864 2) an attempt to capture savannah
  7. 1) was governor of Georgia 2) unionist who resisted slavery till the very end
  8. 1) this group because of the Cottongin 2) abolitionists try to end this
  9. 1) A prisoner of war camp 2) located in macon county

23 Clues: 1) owned their own tools 2) owns their own animals • 1) A prisoner of war camp 2) located in macon county • 1) Led by Alexander Stevens 2) prevented the Civil War for 11 years • 1) this group because of the Cottongin 2) abolitionists try to end this • 1) The return of runaway slaves 2) was included in the compromise of 1850 • ...

Civil War 2015-04-30

Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Turning point of the War that made it clear the North would win. 50,000 people died, and the South lost its chance to invade the North.
  2. Fort attacked by South Carolina starting the Civil War. (April 12, 1861)
  3. warship covered with protective iron plates
  4. Amendment It states that no state can make or enforce any law which deprives any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law. Also, states could not deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. This was passed to help blacks since the Civil Rights laws were not being enforced.
  5. withdraw from an organization or communion
  6. a Union general and the eighteenth President of the United States (1869-1877). He achieved international fame as the leading Union general in the American Civil War.
  7. Last name of the President of the Confederacy
  8. the southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861
  9. The constitutional amendment ratified after the Civil War that forbade slavery and involuntary servitude.
  10. an American stage actor who, as part of a conspiracy plot, assassinated Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. on April 14, 1865.
  11. a war measure that isolates some area of importance to the enemy
  12. Tax paid to the state, federal, and local governments based on income earned over the past year.
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  1. Civil War battle in which the North suceedeed in halting Lee's Confederate forces in Maryland. Was the bloodiest battle of the war resulting in 25,000 casualties
  2. Law that provided for harsh treatment for escaped slaves and for those who helped them
  3. issued by Abraham Lincoln on September 22, 1862, it declared that all slaves in the rebellious Confederate states would be free
  4. 1863 Union army's blockade of Vicksburg, Mississippi, that led the city to surrender during the Civil War
  5. Lincoln 16th President of the United States
  6. where the surrender of the Confederate Army under Robert E. Lee To Ulysses S. Grant took place on April 9, 1865
  7. a slave state that remained in the Union during the Civil War (Maryland, Delaware, Missouri, Kentucky, and West Virginia)
  8. This Act set up Kansas and Nebraska as states. Each state would use popular sovereignty to decide what to do about slavery. People who were proslavery and antislavery moved to Kansas, but some antislavery settlers were against the Act. This began guerrilla warfare
  9. 1857 Supreme Court decision that stated that slaves were not citizens; that living in a free state or territory, even for many years, did not free slaves; and declared the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional
  10. Includes California admitted as a free state, the Fugitive Slave Act, Made popular sovereignty in most other states from Mexican- American War
  11. a constitutional amendment that gave African American men the right to vote
  12. Confederate general who had opposed secession but did not believe the Union should be held together by force
  13. general whose march to sea caused destruction to the south
  14. "Squeeze" and "Choke" the South out of its resources through blockades of bodies of water
  15. Written by Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1853 that highly influenced england's view on the American Deep South and slavery. a novel promoting abolition. intensified sectional conflict.
  16. nation formed by the states that did not secede
  17. nation formed by states that seceded

29 Clues: nation formed by states that seceded • withdraw from an organization or communion • warship covered with protective iron plates • Last name of the President of the Confederacy • Lincoln 16th President of the United States • nation formed by the states that did not secede • general whose march to sea caused destruction to the south • ...

Civil War 2015-05-18

Civil War crossword puzzle
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  1. de Main A French term used to describe a quick, vigorous attack that surprises the enemy
  2. The long metal tube on a gun through which a projectile is fired
  3. Crop A crop such as tobacco or cotton which was grown to be sold for cash --not grown for food like corn or wheat
  4. A soldier who was wounded, killed, or missing in action
  5. Long cuts (trenches) dug out of the earth with the dirt piled up into a mound in front; used for defense
  6. Escaped slaves who fled to the Union lines for protection
  7. To practice marching, military formations and the steps in firing and handling one's weapon
  8. The effort by the North to keep ships from entering or leaving Southern ports
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  1. The science of growing crops or raising livestock; farming
  2. Someone who wishes to abolish or get rid of slavery
  3. To rush towards the enemy
  4. A term used for “living off the land,” as well as plundering committed by soldiers\
  5. To lie in wait for an unexpected attack
  6. Gunboats using stacked cotton bales to protect themselves from enemy fire
  7. Barriers which were about breast-high and protected soldiers from enemy fire
  8. A series of military operations that form a distinct phase of the War (such as the Shenandoah Valley Campaign)
  9. A soldier who served the officers of his regiment by carrying mail or messages
  10. A two-wheeled or four-wheeled wagon or cart used to transport wounded or sick soldiers
  11. Resisting or protecting against attack from someone
  12. Round container used to carry water; made of wood or tin and carried over the shoulder by a strap

20 Clues: To rush towards the enemy • To lie in wait for an unexpected attack • Someone who wishes to abolish or get rid of slavery • Resisting or protecting against attack from someone • A soldier who was wounded, killed, or missing in action • Escaped slaves who fled to the Union lines for protection • The science of growing crops or raising livestock; farming • ...

Civil War 2016-03-02

Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. distress
  2. come together
  3. hated
  4. faithfulness
  5. strong
  6. menace
  7. powerful woman
  8. vigorous
  9. destroy
  10. light
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  1. red liquid
  2. weapon
  3. power from a strong man
  4. track with tracks
  5. violent expansion
  6. lack
  7. fight
  8. terror
  9. kill
  10. killed

20 Clues: lack • kill • hated • fight • light • weapon • terror • strong • menace • killed • destroy • distress • vigorous • red liquid • faithfulness • come together • powerful woman • track with tracks • violent expansion • power from a strong man

Civil War 2016-02-03

Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Grant was attacked here on his way to Mississippi
  2. the Rock of Chickamauga
  3. the name of the 4 slave states that did not secede
  4. first major battle
  5. won at Gettysburg but was fired
  6. was fired twice
  7. first state to secede
  8. Grant starved the enemy into surrendering
  9. president of the Confederacy (South) during the Civil War
  10. successful Southern general
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  1. Northern iron clad ship
  2. fort where first shots were fired
  3. final commander for the Union (North)
  4. burned Atlanta
  5. general from Indiana
  6. turning point of the Civil War
  7. Southern iron clad ship
  8. president of the US during the Civil War
  9. had a famous but deadly charge
  10. nickname of General Jackson

20 Clues: burned Atlanta • was fired twice • first major battle • general from Indiana • first state to secede • Northern iron clad ship • the Rock of Chickamauga • Southern iron clad ship • nickname of General Jackson • successful Southern general • turning point of the Civil War • had a famous but deadly charge • won at Gettysburg but was fired • fort where first shots were fired • ...

Civil War 2016-05-17

Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. President of the Confederacy
  2. led the March to Atlanta
  3. One of the parts of the Anaconda Plan
  4. The Monitor and the Merrimac
  5. Barton Started the Red Cross
  6. Where the Gettysburg Address was delivered
  7. First state to secede from the Union
  8. Southern General who surrended to General Grant
  9. Head of Union army nurses
  10. last Civil War Battle
  11. Type of War Grant believed in fighting
  12. President of the Union
  13. Early battle in the war proving to the North this would be a long drawnout war
  14. Bloody battle neither army could claim as a victory
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  1. this new device helped rifles shoot faster and farther
  2. two of his sons fought at Fort Wagner
  3. The North's plan to fight the South
  4. order issued free slaves in Confederate states
  5. First battle African American Soldiers fought in
  6. This battle gave control of Mississippi to the North
  7. to yield or give up power or possession of something
  8. a system requiring citizens to join their country's armed forces
  9. Freeing from bondage
  10. First battle of the Civil War
  11. forcing people to work for free

25 Clues: Freeing from bondage • last Civil War Battle • President of the Union • led the March to Atlanta • Head of Union army nurses • President of the Confederacy • The Monitor and the Merrimac • Barton Started the Red Cross • First battle of the Civil War • forcing people to work for free • The North's plan to fight the South • First state to secede from the Union • ...

civil war 2017-05-22

civil war crossword puzzle
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  1. Between what years was the cw fought
  2. What amendment gave black males the right to vote
  3. E Lee Who was the commanding officer of the confederate forces
  4. What was the practice in the south of forced labor of African Americans
  5. What is the support and loyalty to a certain part of the country called
  6. Bloodiest battle
  7. courthouse VA Where did general lee surrender to general grant
  8. proclamation What document freed slaves
  9. war Began in 1861 and ended in 1865
  10. divas Who was president of the confederacy during the cw
  11. Sumter 1st battle in civil war
  12. What is the right to vote
  13. What is the belief that all people of the same basic rights
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  1. What amendment abolished slavery
  2. What amendment provided equal protection under the law
  3. amendments What is the name given to the 13th 14th and 15th amendments
  4. Grant Who was the commanding officer of the union forces
  5. What is the belief that the US is a permanent organization of states
  6. What is the act of a state leaving the union
  7. Who was president during the cw
  8. What is a tax on imports
  9. What does it mean to be set free from bondage and slavery
  10. Douglass What was the name of the African that escaped slavery

23 Clues: Bloodiest battle • What is a tax on imports • What is the right to vote • Sumter 1st battle in civil war • Who was president during the cw • What amendment abolished slavery • war Began in 1861 and ended in 1865 • Between what years was the cw fought • proclamation What document freed slaves • What is the act of a state leaving the union • ...

Civil War 2017-04-20

Civil War crossword puzzle
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  1. The ____ amendment guaranteed black men the right to vote.(spelling of number)
  2. Northern general that waged "total war" deep in the South.
  3. The ____ amendment gave African Americans citizenship.(spelling of number)
  4. Bullet innovation that led to higher casualty rates.
  5. Warship covered with iron plating.
  6. This document freed slaves in the South and allowed African Americans to join the Union army.
  7. Lincoln favored this Northern general for his unconditional surrender.
  8. Nickname for the North.
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  1. General that resigned from the North to fight for his home state, Virginia.
  2. The ____ amendment banned slavery in all of U.S. territory.(spelling of number)
  3. First U.S. president to be impeached.
  4. Considered to be the beginning of the Civil War.
  5. First Southern state to secede.
  6. Slave states that remained loyal to the North.
  7. Bloodiest day in American military history.
  8. Lincoln removed him from command for failing to defeat Lee's army several times.
  9. First U.S. president to be assassinated.
  10. These Southern laws limited the freedom of former slaves.
  11. Nickname for the South.
  12. The Northern victory in ________ completed the Anaconda Plan.

20 Clues: Nickname for the South. • Nickname for the North. • First Southern state to secede. • Warship covered with iron plating. • First U.S. president to be impeached. • First U.S. president to be assassinated. • Bloodiest day in American military history. • Slave states that remained loyal to the North. • Considered to be the beginning of the Civil War. • ...

Civil War 2018-03-26

Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Who gave the Emancipation Proclamation?
  2. What weapon caused the most deaths?
  3. What was the most common medical procedure?
  4. Who was the final commander of the Union Army?
  5. Where was the bloodiest battle
  6. How many casualties were there in total?
  7. Another name for the south
  8. Where was the worst battle in Maryland?
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  1. Where was the second worst battle in the civil war?
  2. What theater was Lincoln shot at?
  3. Who was the president of the Confederacy?
  4. How many full years was Lincoln in office?
  5. The Civil War began when Southern troops bombarded Fort
  6. Who was the general for the south at Gettysburg?
  7. How many major battles were there?
  8. Another name for the north
  9. Which state seceded from the union first?
  10. Who was the general for the north at Gettysburg?
  11. Which side suffered more casualties at Gettysburg?
  12. How many stars were on the confederate flag?

20 Clues: Another name for the north • Another name for the south • Where was the bloodiest battle • What theater was Lincoln shot at? • How many major battles were there? • What weapon caused the most deaths? • Who gave the Emancipation Proclamation? • Where was the worst battle in Maryland? • How many casualties were there in total? • Who was the president of the Confederacy? • ...

Civil War 2018-04-19

Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. a muzzle-loading shoulder gun with a long barrel
  2. army unit smaller than a division
  3. Condition of being owned by, and forced to work for someone else.
  4. The southern states who seceded due to wanting more control.
  5. The northern states who wanted the south to stay.
  6. a cap with a flat circular top and a visor
  7. United States slave who sued for liberty after living in a non-slave state; caused the Supreme Court to declare the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional (1795?-1858)
  8. A ship made of iron usually used in the navy.
  9. Southern states seceded from the Union in 1860 which precipitated the Civil War.
  10. a reformer who favors putting an end to slavery
  11. an outsider who seeks power or success presumptuously
  12. leave in order to join an opposing cause, country, or army
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  1. To leave or withdraw
  2. president of the Confederacy
  3. a knife fixed to the end of a rifle and used as a weapon
  4. plan used by the north
  5. a statement that is added to a proposal or document
  6. states that bordered between the slave states and the free states
  7. President of the United States of America during the Civil War.
  8. very hard unsalted biscuit or bread; a former ship's staple
  9. troops trained to fight on horseback

21 Clues: To leave or withdraw • plan used by the north • president of the Confederacy • army unit smaller than a division • troops trained to fight on horseback • a cap with a flat circular top and a visor • A ship made of iron usually used in the navy. • a reformer who favors putting an end to slavery • a muzzle-loading shoulder gun with a long barrel • ...

Civil War 2018-04-19

Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. ship made of iron
  2. To leave or withdraw
  3. Civil War battle in which 25,000 men were killed or wounded
  4. Document freeing slaves in Union-controlled Confederate states
  5. Turning point of the Civil War that made it clear the North would win
  6. The march of an army of 62,000 men from Atlanta toward Savannah, Georgia which left a path of almost total destruction
  7. Union general
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  1. the United States
  2. Place where Civil War ended on April 9, 1865, when Lee surrendered to Grant
  3. President of the Confederacy
  4. President of the United States of America during the Civil War
  5. General of the Confederacy
  6. Speech given by Abraham Lincoln at the dedication of the Gettysburg National Cemetery
  7. The fall of Vicksburg, Mississippi, to General Ulysses S. Grant's army on July 4th, 1863
  8. The southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861
  9. Union military post in South Carolina which was taken over by the Confederacy in 1861
  10. Union strategy for winning by "squeezing" on all sides
  11. Device that allowed messages to be sent by wires over long distances
  12. Slave states that remained in the Union
  13. Condition of being owned by, and forced to work for someone else

20 Clues: Union general • the United States • ship made of iron • To leave or withdraw • General of the Confederacy • President of the Confederacy • Slave states that remained in the Union • Union strategy for winning by "squeezing" on all sides • Civil War battle in which 25,000 men were killed or wounded • President of the United States of America during the Civil War • ...

Civil War 2018-04-19

Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Slave states that remained in the Union
  2. President of the United States of America during the Civil War
  3. Speech given by Abraham Lincoln at the dedication of the Gettysburg National Cemetery
  4. ship made of iron
  5. the United States
  6. Place where Civil War ended Lee surrendered to Grant
  7. Turning point of the Civil War that made it clear the North would win
  8. To leave or withdraw
  9. President of the Confederacy
  10. Union general
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  1. Device that allowed messages to be sent by wires over long distances
  2. General of the Confederacy
  3. Document freeing slaves in Union-controlled Confederate states
  4. Civil War battle in which 25,000 men were killed or wounded
  5. Condition of being owned by, and forced to work for someone else
  6. Union military post taken over by the Confederacy in 1861
  7. The fall of Vicksburg, Mississippi, to General Ulysses S. Grant's army on July 4th, 1863
  8. The march of an army of 62,000 men from Atlanta toward Savannah
  9. Union strategy for winning by "squeezing" on all sides
  10. The southern states that seceded from the United States

20 Clues: Union general • ship made of iron • the United States • To leave or withdraw • General of the Confederacy • President of the Confederacy • Slave states that remained in the Union • Place where Civil War ended Lee surrendered to Grant • Union strategy for winning by "squeezing" on all sides • The southern states that seceded from the United States • ...

Civil War 2021-12-08

Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Forms that forced citizens to enlist in the army.
  2. the group of states that remained a part of the United States.
  3. a violent public commotion
  4. The president at the time
  5. a supporter of the Republican Party
  6. Mexican-American hero, commander of the confederate army
  7. to murder by sudden or secret attack
  8. who escaped from slavery
  9. the head of state and head of government of the United States of America
  10. led slaves to freedom in secret
  11. too cautious to attack even when enemy was down
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  1. fought in the war
  2. Turning point of the war
  3. war fought between the United States of America and the Confederate States of America
  4. used to direct slaves to freedom
  5. a member or supporter of a major British political group
  6. states that seceded from the United States in the 1860 election
  7. What freed the confederate slaves(not border states)
  8. man who killed Lincoln
  9. one human being owned by another human in power
  10. the coin that our 16th president is on

21 Clues: fought in the war • man who killed Lincoln • Turning point of the war • who escaped from slavery • The president at the time • a violent public commotion • led slaves to freedom in secret • used to direct slaves to freedom • a supporter of the Republican Party • to murder by sudden or secret attack • the coin that our 16th president is on • ...

Civil war 2021-12-02

Civil war crossword puzzle
Across
  1. General of a union army
  2. boats made of iron
  3. Given as a present to Abraham lincoln
  4. plan to cut of the souths supplies
  5. north government
  6. Joseph Johnston's replacement
  7. confederate general at the battle of Chickamauga
  8. old commander of the south
  9. A series of small battles near and around Atlanta
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  1. would free the slaves
  2. battle of Chickamauga was fought over this
  3. Largest Union defeat in the Western Theater of the Civil War
  4. General of the union at the battle of Chickamauga
  5. General of the Confederacy
  6. president of the Union
  7. Used to set fire to many major towns in Georgia
  8. Housed thousands of Northern soldiers
  9. President of the confederacy
  10. south government
  11. used for help with blockade running

20 Clues: north government • south government • boats made of iron • would free the slaves • president of the Union • General of a union army • General of the Confederacy • old commander of the south • President of the confederacy • Joseph Johnston's replacement • plan to cut of the souths supplies • used for help with blockade running • Given as a present to Abraham lincoln • ...

Civil War 2022-02-11

Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. a nickname given to northerners opposed to the Civil War
  2. a political party that composed of several parties such as the Whigs
  3. name of Robert E. Lee’s right hand man
  4. name of the President of the Confederacy
  5. a new type of warship developed that led to wooden ships becoming obsolete
  6. alliance of states that seceded from the United States
  7. a stronger version of this was agreed upon in the Compromise of 1850
  8. a major general for the South during the Civil War
  9. a 2 minute speech delivered by President Abraham Lincoln after a major battle
  10. the city where William T. Sherman nearly burned down in all its entirely
  11. a term used to describe someone against slavery
  12. major war general that led to decisive Union victory
  13. Also known as the First Battle of Manassas
  14. key river that would help the Union by splitting the Confederacy in half
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  1. the name given to the naval blockade directed by President Lincoln
  2. a political party that represented southern interests
  3. document that declared that states in all Confederate States were free
  4. the first conflict of the Civil War that led to the start of the Civil War
  5. major court decision for the south that added to tensions between North and South
  6. the state where Sherman’s March took place
  7. the battle where Union victory allowed President Lincoln to announce the Emancipation Proclamation
  8. comprised of Northern and border states
  9. the formal withdrawal of 11 states from the Union
  10. a march from Atlanta to Savannah, Georgia that ripped through the South’s infrastructure
  11. capital city of the Confederacy
  12. the bloodiest battle in the Civil War
  13. a northerner who moved to the South during Reconstruction to strike rich
  14. a major Union general known for his brutal burning of Georgia
  15. President during the Civil War
  16. units of manufacturing that the North had many more compared to the South

30 Clues: President during the Civil War • capital city of the Confederacy • the bloodiest battle in the Civil War • name of Robert E. Lee’s right hand man • comprised of Northern and border states • name of the President of the Confederacy • the state where Sherman’s March took place • Also known as the First Battle of Manassas • a term used to describe someone against slavery • ...

Civil War 2022-01-10

Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. freedom from slavery
  2. Loyal to the government
  3. Someone's land
  4. The confederacy
  5. the 16th president
  6. Something to drink water out of
  7. Someone who supports the confederacy
  8. The distance inside a gun barrel
  9. Famous white abolitionist
  10. A cart that carries ammo
  11. A type of pistol
  12. the union general
  13. a surprise attack
  14. A person that voted for no slavery
  15. To rebuild something
  16. A large group of soldiers led by the Union
  17. the main party of the United States
  18. A gun
  19. the confederate general
  20. One who is against slavery
  21. To forfeit
  22. A force that crushed everything in its path
  23. A ship protected by iron armor
  24. A branch of the military using ships
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  1. To be enslaved
  2. A large killing
  3. Manufacturing goods
  4. To leave
  5. The Union
  6. to back off
  7. the first battle
  8. new soldiers
  9. To push the other side
  10. A free state and a slave state bordering each other
  11. A metal blade
  12. The culture of farming
  13. A large force of soldiers
  14. a crop worth money
  15. Blocking off something
  16. To fight
  17. Extra troops
  18. Emergency troops
  19. famous abolitionist
  20. the Confederate States of America
  21. the army fighting for non slavery

45 Clues: A gun • To leave • To fight • The Union • To forfeit • to back off • new soldiers • Extra troops • A metal blade • To be enslaved • Someone's land • A large killing • The confederacy • the first battle • A type of pistol • Emergency troops • the union general • a surprise attack • the 16th president • a crop worth money • Manufacturing goods • famous abolitionist • freedom from slavery • To rebuild something • ...

Civil War 2022-01-20

Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. president of the United States during The Civil War.
  2. color uniforms for the south troops
  3. Extra troops
  4. The southern group whose leader was Jefferson Davis.
  5. a historic town in Jefferson County, West Virginia,
  6. a surprise attack
  7. an act or means of sealing off a place to prevent goods or people from entering or leaving.
  8. Brown an American abolitionist who believed armed insurrection was the only way to overthrow the institution of slavery in the United States.
  9. an inhabitant of New England or one of the northern states
  10. withdraw formally from membership in a federal union, an alliance, or a political or religious organization.
  11. Letting people decide what they want
  12. Blocking off something
  13. A metal blade
  14. words used to try and get ride of slavery
  15. where the slaves worked, big farm
  16. state that doesn't allow slavery
  17. S. Grant commander of the Union at the end of the war.
  18. most famous for helping slaves escape through the underground railroad
  19. states that were against slavery
  20. a person who supervises others, especially workers
  21. Largest southern jail that help Union soldiers.
  22. A type of pistol
  23. Sumter battle that started the war.
  24. the action of annexing something, especially territory
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  1. The distance inside a gun barrel
  2. Railroad a network of secret routes and safe houses used by 19th-century enslaved people of African descent in the United States in efforts to escape to free states and Canada with the aid of abolitionists and allies who were sympathetic to their cause.
  3. The bloodiest day of the war.Gettysburg The bloodiest battle of the Civil War.
  4. Something to drink water out of
  5. The culture of farming
  6. E. Lee General of the Confederacy
  7. a southern soldier
  8. One who is against slavery
  9. Color of the northern troops
  10. A person that voted for no slavery
  11. northern states
  12. group. This group was lead by Abraham Lincoln. Union
  13. the production of goods or services within an economy.
  14. states that were for slavery
  15. the production of goods or services within an economy
  16. a short-lived political party in the United States
  17. A large force of soldiers
  18. a person who rises in opposition or armed resistance against an established government or ruler.
  19. A free state and a slave state bordering each other

43 Clues: Extra troops • A metal blade • northern states • A type of pistol • a surprise attack • a southern soldier • The culture of farming • Blocking off something • A large force of soldiers • One who is against slavery • Color of the northern troops • states that were for slavery • Something to drink water out of • The distance inside a gun barrel • state that doesn't allow slavery • ...

Civil War 2022-05-06

Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. sealing off a place to prevent goods or people from entering or leaving
  2. approved
  3. Union commander in Cairo
  4. Lincolns wife
  5. helped dozen escape slavery
  6. Burnside was peplaced by who?
  7. "Stonewall" Jackson
  8. a person under arrest to be brought before a judge or into court
  9. a 19th-century warship with armor plating.
  10. killed or wounded in the war
  11. won an important victory in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
  12. head the Union army of the East and organize the troops.
Down
  1. freed from slavery
  2. helped wounded soldiers.
  3. captured New Orleans, Louisiana, the South's largest city.
  4. A west Point graduate and an experienced soldier.
  5. the action of inflating something or the condition of being inflated.
  6. clashed with Lee near the Virginia town.
  7. slave states that bordered the northern free states during the US Civil War.
  8. Hooker was replaced by who?
  9. Attended the US military Academy
  10. a sum paid for killing or capturing a person or animal.
  11. Attended the US military Academy
  12. someone from the US.
  13. rise in opposition or armed resistance to an established government or ruler.

25 Clues: approved • Lincolns wife • freed from slavery • "Stonewall" Jackson • someone from the US. • helped wounded soldiers. • Union commander in Cairo • Hooker was replaced by who? • helped dozen escape slavery • killed or wounded in the war • Burnside was peplaced by who? • Attended the US military Academy • Attended the US military Academy • clashed with Lee near the Virginia town. • ...

Civil War 2022-02-07

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

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 2022-03-04

Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. this amendment wanted to add Missouri as a free state, but the South blocked it
  2. often seen as the WORST president in US history
  3. the Civil War started with the attack on Fort _________
  4. Henry ______ came up with several compromises to keep the nation from civil war
  5. Homer Plessy fought this man in court which backfired creating the "separate but equal" principle
  6. the bloodiest battle in American history
  7. a horrible general with equally horrible facial hair
  8. Johnson was the first president to be __________
  9. a spy who told the South about the Anaconda plan
  10. this proviso wanted to add all land gained from the Mexican-American War as free state, but the South blocked it
  11. the only president of the Confederate States
  12. the decision on whether this state should be free or enslaved led to a House Rep beating a Senator with his cane
  13. name for the era BEFORE the Civil War
  14. the new political party that replaced the Whigs
Down
  1. name for the era AFTER the Civil War
  2. General Thomas Jackson's nickname
  3. this man won the Election of 1860 despite less than half of the US voting for him
  4. the imaginary line that separated the North from the South is the _________-Dixon Line
  5. this president took over for President Taylor when he died
  6. acts passed by President Grant to combat the KKK
  7. John Brown (and Mr. Fay's) hometown
  8. Stephen ___________ beat Lincoln in the race for Senator, but lost to Lincoln in the race for President
  9. Grant took over this city which gave him control of the Mississippi River
  10. 11 states seceded from the US and formed the ______________ States of America

24 Clues: General Thomas Jackson's nickname • John Brown (and Mr. Fay's) hometown • name for the era AFTER the Civil War • name for the era BEFORE the Civil War • the bloodiest battle in American history • the only president of the Confederate States • often seen as the WORST president in US history • the new political party that replaced the Whigs • ...

Civil War 2022-05-16

Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Lee invaded Maryland for the Battle of Antietam on _____ 17, 1862 which is the first time they felt successful.
  2. The _____´s strategy did not work
  3. The Emancipation Proclamation says that if the ______ states don't rejoin the US the slaves would be free.
  4. The North won which meant the Slaves were ____
  5. The north also had more ____, weapons and railroads.
  6. President elected in 1860
  7. The union's strategy was to surround the _____ and cut off its trade.
  8. _______ Johnson was a slaveholder and Democrat while being elected Vice President in 1864.
  9. Abraham Lincoln was assassinated ______ 15, 1865
  10. Lincoln was assassinated by a southerner who wanted to keep ______
  11. The name of the Union strategy was the ____ Plan
  12. The Union won the battle of Gettysburg in what state
  13. One of the Advantages of the South is that they are expert _____
Down
  1. The Confederate Strategy wanted to fight what kind of war.
  2. Abraham Lincoln ran for ______ in 1864 and won.
  3. Vice President ______ was sworn into the presidency after Lincoln was killed.
  4. Part of the Confederate strategy was to get Britain and _____ to support them
  5. The south had better leaders which gave them better _____
  6. The South had a stronger ______ to fight for their wealth and lifestyle
  7. One of the Advantages of the North, money, factories, and _____
  8. The union stopped the confederate general from invading the North at the battle of _____ In Pennsylvania.
  9. South Carolina and how many other states left after Lincoln's election?
  10. Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S.Grant at _______ Courthouse, Virginia

23 Clues: President elected in 1860 • The _____´s strategy did not work • The North won which meant the Slaves were ____ • Abraham Lincoln ran for ______ in 1864 and won. • Abraham Lincoln was assassinated ______ 15, 1865 • The name of the Union strategy was the ____ Plan • The north also had more ____, weapons and railroads. • ...

Civil War 2023-10-04

Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Invention used by the president and generals
  2. last name of a confederate general, known as General Lee's "right hand man;"
  3. the norths hidden weapon against the south, type of transportation
  4. military draft
  5. last name of a successful Union general who won battles in the Western Theater
  6. amendment that abolished slavery in the north
  7. General of the Confederate Army
  8. food they ate in the civil war
Down
  1. first battle of the war
  2. northern democrat who supported peace in the south
  3. confederate troops shot 200 african americans and some whites
  4. last name of the president of the confederate states of america
  5. free state
  6. last name of the 16th president of the US
  7. last name of the general whose march to sea caused destruction to the south
  8. slave state
  9. slave act provided poor treatment to escaped slaves
  10. last name of the nurse on battlefields
  11. bullets used in the Civil War
  12. war measure that isolates some area of importance to the enemy

20 Clues: free state • slave state • military draft • first battle of the war • bullets used in the Civil War • food they ate in the civil war • General of the Confederate Army • last name of the nurse on battlefields • last name of the 16th president of the US • Invention used by the president and generals • amendment that abolished slavery in the north • ...

civil war 2023-10-05

civil war crossword puzzle
Across
  1. south west east..
  2. what a big way to transport
  3. who was the command leader
  4. what was a big issue during the civil war
  5. north west east...
  6. what used to shoot a bullet
  7. who was the president during the war
  8. what was the rifel model name
  9. what invention let people see what was going on in the war
Down
  1. what did south destroy
  2. what did many soliders die by
  3. who won the war
  4. what was the big production in the south
  5. what job did most women do during the civil war
  6. what did Abraham Licon want to free
  7. what did solider's send to their family's
  8. what was big in the north
  9. what did the soliders eat
  10. what did the states want
  11. who help free many slaves

20 Clues: who won the war • south west east.. • north west east... • what did south destroy • what did the states want • what was big in the north • what did the soliders eat • who help free many slaves • who was the command leader • what a big way to transport • what used to shoot a bullet • what did many soliders die by • what was the rifel model name • what did Abraham Licon want to free • ...

civil war 2023-10-23

civil war crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Manufacturing goods from raw materials
  2. Withdrawal from the Federal government of the United States.
  3. To rush towards the enemy.
  4. An overwhelming, advancing force that crushes or seems to crush everything in its path.
  5. Escaped slaves who fled to the Union lines for protection.
  6. Also called the South or the Confederate States of America
  7. War A new way of conducting war appeared during the Civil War.
  8. States The states of Maryland, Delaware, Kentucky, and Missouri
  9. The largest organizational group of soldiers
  10. A smooth bore firearm fired from the shoulder. Thrust from exploding powder shoots the bullet forward like a chest pass in basketball.
Down
  1. The cruel killing of a number of helpless or unresisting people.
  2. The major political party in America most sympathetic to states rights and willing to tolerate the spread of slavery to the territories.
  3. The science of growing crops or raising livestock, farming.
  4. To admit defeat and give up in the face of overwhelming odds.
  5. Freedom from slavery.
  6. A branch of the military mounted on horseback.
  7. A flag identifying a regiment or army.
  8. Round container used to carry water made of wood or tin and carried over the shoulder by a strap.
  9. A place where weapons and other military supplies are manufactured.
  10. A hollow projectile shot from a cannon

20 Clues: Freedom from slavery. • To rush towards the enemy. • Manufacturing goods from raw materials • A flag identifying a regiment or army. • A hollow projectile shot from a cannon • The largest organizational group of soldiers • A branch of the military mounted on horseback. • Escaped slaves who fled to the Union lines for protection. • ...

Civil War 2024-02-13

Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. the union having the advantage of industry/factories was the biggest _____ difference leading to them winning the civil war
  2. one advantage of the confederacy was knowledge of the _____ where most battles were fought
  3. the fugitive slave law was so intrusive that it would lead to more people joining the ______ movement
  4. as a result of the battle at vicksburg, the confederacy lost control of its main supply line, the _____ river
  5. lincoln and jefferson would disagree on the idea that of states _____ from the union
  6. 200,000 slaves were freed and encouraged to fight for the union when lincoln signed the _____ proclamation
  7. at the battle of bull run, thomas jackson received the nickname "_____" for his heroic efforts
  8. battle that resulted in the union gaining control of the mississippi river
  9. time period before the civil war where all african-americans were denied freedom and citizenship
  10. the union gained access to _____ towards the end of the civil war, giving them the ability to quickly move over long distances
  11. section of the country that relied on cotton and agriculture to fund the war
  12. battle that was known as the single bloodiest day of the civil war
Down
  1. the fugitive slave law was created, leading to more division between the North and South as a result of the _____ of 1850
  2. the attack on fort sumter was initiated by the _____ in 1861
  3. the battles at antietam and gettysburg were different in the sense that they were fought in the _____ (northern part of the country)
  4. the _____ compromise would maintain the balance of free and slave states, relieving sectional tensions
  5. fighting would break out in the state of _____ over whether or not slavery would be allowed in the territory
  6. whether it was is inaugural address, running for reelection, or the gettysburg address, lincoln's message to the country was that we needed to keep the union _____, which was worth fighting over
  7. last name of the confederate general that would surrender at appomattox court house, virginia
  8. lincoln would use an _____ to cut off the south's ability to use agricultural exports to fund the war
  9. president (last name) of the union during the civil war
  10. commanding general of the union (last name) that had previous experience from the u.s.-mexican war
  11. the main cause of the civil war

23 Clues: the main cause of the civil war • president (last name) of the union during the civil war • the attack on fort sumter was initiated by the _____ in 1861 • battle that was known as the single bloodiest day of the civil war • battle that resulted in the union gaining control of the mississippi river • ...

Civil war 2024-01-19

Civil war crossword puzzle
Across
  1. a well thought out plan of action
  2. a person who is illegally running away
  3. to formally withdraw
  4. serious injury or death
  5. war strategy of destroying the enemy's means of survival
  6. to strengthen or make stronger
  7. to firmly establish
  8. Lincoln's order that freed slaves in all the rebelling states
  9. to enroll in a group such as the military
Down
  1. stream flowing into a larger body of water
  2. a force that opposes or slows motion
  3. to provide evidence or reasons for
  4. rights concept that laws should be made by each state and not by the federal government
  5. war war fought among citizens of the same country
  6. someone who will die for their beliefs
  7. promissory notes (made with green ink) issued during the Civil War
  8. a place where weapons are kept
  9. a payment made (often by authorities) as a reward
  10. the act of separating or withdrawing
  11. State slave-owning states that stayed in the U.S.

20 Clues: to firmly establish • to formally withdraw • serious injury or death • a place where weapons are kept • to strengthen or make stronger • a well thought out plan of action • to provide evidence or reasons for • a force that opposes or slows motion • the act of separating or withdrawing • a person who is illegally running away • someone who will die for their beliefs • ...

Civil War 2024-01-23

Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Commands the 54th
  2. The CSS Hunley was one of these
  3. Strategy used to stop Southern goods
  4. Steals a Confederate ship
  5. South only needs to fight this type of war
  6. Sherman burns 1st
  7. Last city burned by Sherman
  8. New type of tougher ship
  9. Commanded 54th
  10. Tactic used by Sherman
  11. Plan to beat the rebels
  12. Also known as Bull Run
  13. Won election of 1860
Down
  1. Win gives Union base of operations in the South
  2. Really like to light things on fire during his march
  3. Winners of Bull Run (Twice!)
  4. Famous African-American regiment from here
  5. The South wanted these foreigners on their side
  6. President of the CSA
  7. Strength of the North
  8. A Union victory here turned the tide of the war (not Gettysburg)
  9. Hates slavery, disagrees with secession, becomes CSA general anyway
  10. Capture this city, win the war
  11. Bloodiest battle (turning point)
  12. 1st major land battle
  13. Surrenders before being burned down

26 Clues: Commanded 54th • Commands the 54th • Sherman burns 1st • President of the CSA • Won election of 1860 • Strength of the North • 1st major land battle • Tactic used by Sherman • Also known as Bull Run • Plan to beat the rebels • New type of tougher ship • Steals a Confederate ship • Last city burned by Sherman • Winners of Bull Run (Twice!) • Capture this city, win the war • ...

civil war 2023-10-26

civil war crossword puzzle
Across
  1. John brown led raid in what place on october 16 1859
  2. who crossed the border into Kansas from Missouri
  3. who two senators debated against each other in 1858
  4. what douglas argued during his debates against lincoln
  5. required northern citizens to return slaves
  6. republican party was formed
  7. enslaved man who sued for freedom but it was denied
  8. when south states threatened to leave
  9. People determine the issue of stuff
Down
  1. who took President Taylor's place after he died
  2. When Charles Sumner criticized people who were pro slavery
  3. the person who wrote Uncle Toms Cabin
  4. who won the lincoln douglas debates
  5. slavery be banned in any territory accquired through the mexican cessian
  6. Henry Clay came up with this compromise in 1850
  7. keep new territories free of slavery
  8. people marched into kansas to try and get it to be either a slave or non slave territory
  9. who had the campaign slogan of 'Free Soil. Free Men and Fremont'
  10. He was seen as a martyr in northern states
  11. became the 16th president of the united states

20 Clues: republican party was formed • who won the lincoln douglas debates • People determine the issue of stuff • keep new territories free of slavery • the person who wrote Uncle Toms Cabin • when south states threatened to leave • He was seen as a martyr in northern states • required northern citizens to return slaves • became the 16th president of the united states • ...

Civil war 2023-10-26

Civil war crossword puzzle
Across
  1. What state inspired other states to establish their own governments?
  2. Who replaced president Taylor when he died during his presidency?
  3. What enslaved man had a supreme court case for him on whether he could be free or not in 1857?
  4. Who did Abraham Lincoln debate in the senatorial election of 1858?
  5. Who wrote Uncle Tom's cabin?
  6. What is another name for authority of the people?
  7. Someone who dies for his or her beliefs - what is this called?
  8. A part of a law that restricts something- what is this called?
  9. Part of an alliance or confederacy- what is this called?
  10. What essay did Henry David Thorean write?
  11. Who did the democratic party vote for in 1856
  12. Who did the republican party vote for president in 1856?
Down
  1. What was the name these states called themselves with their newfound governments?
  2. Who defeated war hero Winfield Scott?
  3. What party was former president Millard Fillmore nominated for?
  4. What town was the raid that John Brown led in Virginia?
  5. Who did Preston Brooks beat with a cane?
  6. What month was Abraham Lincoln inaugurated?
  7. Bleeding K-----
  8. Who proposed the Wilmot Proviso?

20 Clues: Bleeding K----- • Who wrote Uncle Tom's cabin? • Who proposed the Wilmot Proviso? • Who defeated war hero Winfield Scott? • Who did Preston Brooks beat with a cane? • What essay did Henry David Thorean write? • What month was Abraham Lincoln inaugurated? • Who did the democratic party vote for in 1856 • What is another name for authority of the people? • ...

Civil War 2025-01-08

Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. ordered by Lincoln to lead the Union army in the east
  2. from Louisiana, sent by the confederacy to France
  3. critical, of great importance
  4. from Virginia, sent by the confederacy to Britain
  5. forcing people into military service
  6. a decree freeing all enslaved people in states still in rebellion after January 1, 1863
  7. gather together for a purpose
  8. traitors to many Republicans
Down
  1. one of the most respected senior officers in the United States Army
  2. Jackson became known as this nickname after rallying behind the Virginians
  3. plan named after the snake that slowly strangles its prey to death
  4. where Mason and Slidell were arrested, exciting interest worldwide
  5. a sum of money given as a bonus
  6. put into effect
  7. Union general who began a campaign to seize control of the Cumberland and Tennessee rivers
  8. wearing down one side by the other through exhaustion of soldiers and resources
  9. he took command of a Union force of 42 warships and 15,000 soldiers
  10. small, fast vessels the South used to smuggle goods past the blockade
  11. refers to a person's right not to be imprisoned unless charged with a crime and given trial
  12. paper bills (money)
  13. enough/adequate

21 Clues: put into effect • enough/adequate • paper bills (money) • traitors to many Republicans • critical, of great importance • gather together for a purpose • a sum of money given as a bonus • forcing people into military service • from Louisiana, sent by the confederacy to France • from Virginia, sent by the confederacy to Britain • ...

Civil War 2025-05-15

Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Party - A party that is usually against slavery and the expansion to other territories
  2. - An officer responsible for supplying food, clothes, and supplies
  3. - Loyal to the government of the United States also known as the Union
  4. - A mounted sentry station in advance of a picket line
  5. - Also known as the North of the United States
  6. - African Americans being owned by white people
  7. - Container that is used to carry water
  8. - Attacking someone
  9. - A ship protected by iron armor
  10. - The cruel killing of a number of people
  11. - Someone who wishes to end slavery
Down
  1. - Hard crackers soldiers used to eat
  2. - Group of soldiers stationed at the Military post
  3. - Loyal to the southern states
  4. - Freedom from slavery
  5. - A disease causing symptoms like fevers, headaches, and physical exhaustion
  6. - A group of military using ships to conduct warfare
  7. party - A political party that was more sympathetic to states rights
  8. Institution" - Term for slavery in the south
  9. - The act of the North trying to keep ships from entering or leaving Southern parts

20 Clues: - Attacking someone • - Freedom from slavery • - Loyal to the southern states • - A ship protected by iron armor • - Someone who wishes to end slavery • - Hard crackers soldiers used to eat • - Container that is used to carry water • - The cruel killing of a number of people • Institution" - Term for slavery in the south • - Also known as the North of the United States • ...

civil war 2025-05-15

civil war crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Davis
  2. Tubman
  3. order freeing slaves in Confederate states
  4. speech redefining the war’s purpose
  5. Riots
  6. Sumter
  7. enslaved woman, Union spy, and conductor on the Underground Railroad
  8. over conscription laws in the North
  9. Proclamation
  10. of the Confederate Army
  11. S. Grant
  12. states that stayed in the Union
  13. the first shots of the Civil War were fired
  14. of Lee’s surrender to Grant
  15. used by Sherman in his march to the sea
  16. of the Confederacy
Down
  1. war
  2. Bureau
  3. battle and turning point of the war
  4. Amendment
  5. general who accepted Lee’s surrender
  6. Lincoln
  7. states during the Civil War
  8. following the war focused on rebuilding the South
  9. of 11 Southern states that seceded
  10. Address
  11. states
  12. E. Lee
  13. Court House
  14. of Southern states leaving the Union
  15. single-day battle in U.S. history
  16. President during the Civil War
  17. former slaves transition to freedom
  18. slavery in the U.S.

34 Clues: war • Davis • Riots • Bureau • Tubman • Sumter • states • E. Lee • Lincoln • Address • S. Grant • Amendment • Court House • Proclamation • of the Confederacy • slavery in the U.S. • of the Confederate Army • states during the Civil War • of Lee’s surrender to Grant • President during the Civil War • states that stayed in the Union • single-day battle in U.S. history • of 11 Southern states that seceded • ...

Civil War 2024-05-15

Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Confederate general who held his position during the Battle of Bull Run
  2. The Union had a much more extensive network of these than the South
  3. freed slaves in Confederate controlled territories
  4. Lincoln suspended this right that gave citizens the right to seek release from unlawful jailing
  5. Distinguished Confederate general
  6. Stonewall Jackson was killed in this Confederate victory
  7. one of Lincoln's most famous speeches
  8. Grant surrounded Lee on his march to Richmond causing Lee to surrender here
  9. The 54th Massachusetts regiment of the Union was composed of these men
  10. The Southern states during the Civil War
Down
  1. slave states that remained loyal to the Union
  2. Distinguished Union general
  3. First major land battle and Confederate victory
  4. Confederates successfully defended their capital in Richmond
  5. Lee's forces were defeated, and Britian decided not to give aid to the South after this battle
  6. Grant's victory gave the Union control of the Mississippi River after this battle
  7. The Union's plan to keep the war in the South by constricting supplies and movement
  8. Confederate surprise attack that ended in Union victory Mississippi
  9. this Union general captured and destroyed Atlanta, Georgia
  10. deadliest single day of fighting that led was this battle
  11. The Virginian and Merrimack had these type of warships
  12. President of the Confederate states
  13. strategy of destroying opponent's land and infostructure used by Sherman
  14. The Northern states during the Civil War
  15. the first major battle on Union soil resulting in Confederate defeat

25 Clues: Distinguished Union general • Distinguished Confederate general • President of the Confederate states • one of Lincoln's most famous speeches • The Northern states during the Civil War • The Southern states during the Civil War • slave states that remained loyal to the Union • First major land battle and Confederate victory • ...

Civil War 2024-05-14

Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Branch of the Army specialized in using Cannon
  2. A war between factions in the same country
  3. A soldier who was wounded, killed, or missing in action
  4. From an organization or polity
  5. Someone who wishes to get rid of slavery
  6. Freedom from slavery
  7. disease causing severe diarrhea
  8. Freedom of choice
  9. Supplies
Down
  1. Any mechanical force that tends to slow or o
  2. 16th president of the United States
  3. Atate, Any of the southern states in which slavery was legal prior to the American Civil War
  4. The separation of groups of people based on race
  5. Soldiers
  6. The government based on the consent and beliefs of the people
  7. To join the military, to sign up
  8. A war measure isolating an area of importance to the enemy
  9. A soldier who fought with the Union
  10. A slang term referring to Confederate soldiers
  11. Branch of the Army that rode on horses to move quickly into battle or on scouting patrols
  12. The first and only president of the Confederacy

21 Clues: Soldiers • Supplies • Freedom of choice • Freedom from slavery • From an organization or polity • disease causing severe diarrhea • To join the military, to sign up • 16th president of the United States • A soldier who fought with the Union • Someone who wishes to get rid of slavery • A war between factions in the same country • Any mechanical force that tends to slow or o • ...

civil war 2025-04-16

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

20 Clues: 2 wheeled barrel • beginning of battle • large caliber firearms • basic unit of artillery • term meaning before war • soldier killed in battle • quarter inch thick square • 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 • someone who wanted slavery to end • ...

Civil War 2024-10-31

Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. (1) California admitted as free state, (2) territorial status and popular sovereignty of Utah and New Mexico, (3) slave trade abolished in DC, and (4) new fugitive slave law; strengthened South's support advocated by Henry Clay and Stephen Douglas
  2. Separation of people based on racial, ethnic, or other differences
  3. Formal withdrawal of states or regions from a nation
  4. Created to keep the balance of power of free states and slave states. It was decided Missouri entered as a slave state and Maine entered as a free state and all states North of the 36th parallel were free states and all South were slave states.
  5. Movement of over 300,000 African American looking for jobs from the rural south into Northern cities between 1914 and 1920
  6. The name for the north during the Civil War
  7. 1854 A law that allowed voters in Kansas and Nebraska to choose whether to allow slavery
  8. Refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man and inspired the Montgomery Alabama boycott.
  9. Area that relied on agriculture, plantations, cotton, crops. few factories, and had slaves.
  10. 1st state to secede from the Union
  11. A group tried to seize the federal arsenal and armory at Harpers Ferry, Virginia to give weapons to slaves who could use them to fight for freedom. The plan failed, and the leader was tried, convicted, and hanged for treason.
  12. A law that made it a crime to help runaway slaves; allowed for the arrest of escaped slaves in areas where slavery was illegal and required their return to slaveholders
  13. Principle upheld in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) in which the Supreme Court ruled that segregation of public facilities was legal.
  14. Slave sued for his freedom after living in a free state for a short time. Supreme Court ruling that declared slaves were not viewed as citizens but as property.
  15. Loyalty to one's own region of the country, rather than to the nation as a whole
  16. 16th president of the United States; helped preserve the United States by leading the defeat of the secessionist Confederacy; an outspoken opponent of the expansion of slavery.
  17. A person who wanted to end slavery in the United States
  18. Abolished slavery
  19. A sequence of violent events involving abolitionists and pro-Slavery elements that took place in Kansas-Nebraska Territory. The dispute further strained the relations of the North and South, making civil war imminent.
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  1. Brooks (proslavery) attacked Sumner (anti slavery) on floor of the senate with his cane.
  2. Protect the right of African American Men to vote. Southern states added poll taxes, literacy tests, and used violence to prevent African American men from voting.
  3. A large political rally that took place in Washington, D.C. on August 28, 1963. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his historic "I Have a Dream" speech advocating racial harmony at the Lincoln Memorial during the march. Widely credited as helping lead to the Civil Rights Act (1964) and the National Voting Rights Act (1965).
  4. Declares that all persons born in the U.S. are citizens and are guaranteed equal protection of the laws. Gave former slaves same rights as other Americans.
  5. Confederate general who had opposed secession but did not believe the Union should be held together by force
  6. Compromise that enables Hayes to take office in return for the end of Reconstruction in the South
  7. The southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861
  8. This was the first high school to be integrated. 9 African Americans started going to the all white high school. President Eisenhower used federal troops to protect them.
  9. Power comes from the people who rule by majority and their own consent.
  10. Many factories, industrial, bigger cities, many immigrants, and didn't support slavery.
  11. American abolitionist. Born a slave on a Maryland plantation, she escaped to the North in 1849 and became the most renowned conductor on the Underground Railroad, leading more than 300 slaves to freedom.
  12. General of the Union Army
  13. A novel published by Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1852 which portrayed slavery as brutal and immoral and caused many northerns to oppose slavery.
  14. A system of secret routes used by escaping slaves to reach freedom in the North or in Canada
  15. The president was shot and killed by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C., April 14, 1865
  16. Lincoln, the Republican candidate, won because the Democratic party was split over slavery. As a result, the South no longer felt like it has a voice in politics and a number of states seceded from the Union.
  17. Union fort attacked by Confederates in South Carolina 1861 sparking the start of the Civil War
  18. The period after the Civil War in the United States when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union
  19. The idea to expand west and that the U.S. was destined to rule the continent, from the Atlantic the Pacific.

38 Clues: Abolished slavery • General of the Union Army • 1st state to secede from the Union • The name for the north during the Civil War • Formal withdrawal of states or regions from a nation • A person who wanted to end slavery in the United States • The southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861 • ...

Civil war 2024-09-14

Civil war crossword puzzle
Across
  1. ___ said that Euorope wouldnt help as much if the thought the war was against slavery.
  2. Abraham Lincoln signed the __________ in 1863.
  3. _____ was the confederate presidant.
  4. Thousands of women served as _____.
  5. The batttle of _____ was named after a small church.
  6. Mary Edwards Walker was the 1st female _____.
  7. ______ is the confederate capital
  8. The_____ wanted to save the country.
  9. Admiral Farragut captured _____.
  10. The ____ plan was the plan to split the confederacy.
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  1. Peace democrats were know as ______.
  2. The ___ and the monitor were the 1st ironclads.
  3. ____ fought against General McDowell in the 1st battle of bull run.
  4. ______ Is the union Capitial.
  5. The ____ wanted support from France and Britain for supplies.
  6. A____ is a closing of ports.
  7. The worst protest against the draft happened in _____.
  8. ______ guarantees a person a hearing before jail.
  9. The main goal of the ____ was to reunite the country.
  10. The norths war plan came from_____.
  11. The battle of ____ saw the bloodiest day of the war.
  12. The battle of shiloh was a 2 day battle in April

22 Clues: A____ is a closing of ports. • ______ Is the union Capitial. • Admiral Farragut captured _____. • ______ is the confederate capital • Thousands of women served as _____. • The norths war plan came from_____. • Peace democrats were know as ______. • _____ was the confederate presidant. • The_____ wanted to save the country. • Mary Edwards Walker was the 1st female _____. • ...

civil war 2025-10-29

civil war crossword puzzle
Across
  1. a person who tracked down, apprehended, and returned escaped slaves to their owners
  2. a prominent 19th-century American abolitionist, journalist, and social reformer
  3. he fact or process of being set free from legal, social, or political restrictions
  4. the principle that political power is vested in the people
  5. a period of violent civil conflict in the Kansas Territory between 1854
  6. American abolitionist and women's rights activist
  7. the political practice of keeping the number of free states and slave
  8. temperance movement was a social and political campaign, prominent in the 19th and early 20th centuries
  9. the theory that an individual state has the right to declare any federal law or judicial decision unconstitutional and therefore void within its borders
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  1. a secret network of people who helped enslaved African Americans escape to freedom before the Civil War
  2. the action of withdrawing formally from membership of a federation or body, especially a political state
  3. African American abolitionist and political activist
  4. was an American social reformer
  5. 1857 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that stated African Americans were not citizens and had no rights under the Constitution
  6. an 1852 anti-slavery novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe that was crucial in shaping public opinion against slavery
  7. a particular form of slave auction
  8. a period of intense religious revival in the United States from the late 18th
  9. was a U.S. foreign policy statement issued in 1823 by President James Monroe
  10. was an American lawyer and statesman
  11. 19th-century American educator, social reformer, and humanitarian
  12. is a machine that separates cotton fibers from their seeds

21 Clues: was an American social reformer • a particular form of slave auction • was an American lawyer and statesman • American abolitionist and women's rights activist • African American abolitionist and political activist • the principle that political power is vested in the people • is a machine that separates cotton fibers from their seeds • ...

Civil War 2025-05-09

Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. The goal expressed by Lincoln in the Greeley Letter
  2. The first shots of the Civil War
  3. The American ______ was created by Clara Barton, a famous Union nurse
  4. The Emancipation Proclamation freed enslaved people in the _____ states
  5. The name of the abolitionist who attempted the Raid on Harper's Ferry
  6. Another state that was able to vote on slavery due to the Compromise of 1850
  7. The state that was made free by the Compromise of 1850
  8. The compromise that the Kansas Nebraska Act repealed
  9. In this 1861 speech to the entire nation, Lincoln expressed that he would not abolish slavery
  10. The caning of Charles Sumner took place in ______
  11. The side that had the advantage during the war in regards to railroads, population, money, and factories
  12. The ____ Plan was the Union strategy to cut the Confederacy off from supplies and itself
  13. The first state to secede from the Union
  14. The last name of the Union president during the Civil War
  15. During the Civil War, women like Harriet Tubman and Rose Greenhow participated in the Civil War as
  16. This was the effect of the Kansas Nebraska Act
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  1. The most famous battle that the MA 54th fought in
  2. In this infamous speech, the Confederate VP says slavery and upholding white supremacy are the foundations of the Confederacy
  3. The battle considered the turning point of the Civil War
  4. The last name of the man who conquered Atlanta and led a total war "march to the sea"
  5. The group responsible for the Dred Scott Decision
  6. Where Lee surrendered to Grant
  7. States that maintained slavery but fought for the Union were called
  8. The last name of the leader of the Union Armies
  9. The state that MOST Civil War battles took place in
  10. The last name of the Confederate president
  11. 1 state that would be Able to vote on slavery due to the compromise of 1850
  12. To formally leave a nation
  13. The side that won the Civil War
  14. In the election of 1860, no candidate ran on __________.
  15. The NEW political party that developed in the mid 1850s
  16. The last name of the leader of the Confederate Armies

32 Clues: To formally leave a nation • Where Lee surrendered to Grant • The side that won the Civil War • The first shots of the Civil War • The first state to secede from the Union • The last name of the Confederate president • This was the effect of the Kansas Nebraska Act • The last name of the leader of the Union Armies • The most famous battle that the MA 54th fought in • ...

Civil War 2025-12-11

Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Lincoln's speech in 1863
  2. Nickname earned by Thomas Jackson
  3. Name for the Southern States that left the US
  4. Man who sued for his freedom and his case went to the Supreme Court
  5. Founder of the American Red Cross
  6. Amendment that banned slavery
  7. Confederate Army General
  8. Northern plan to burn down Southern Georgia
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  1. Battle fought in April 1861
  2. Battle fought in Sept. 1862
  3. Battle fought in July 1861
  4. Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin
  5. Northern plan to cut off supplies from the South
  6. A person who wanted to end slavery
  7. First state to secede
  8. Where the Confederacy surrendered
  9. One of the border states
  10. President of the Union
  11. Union Army General
  12. President of the Confederacy
  13. To leave the United States

21 Clues: Union Army General • First state to secede • President of the Union • Lincoln's speech in 1863 • One of the border states • Confederate Army General • Battle fought in July 1861 • To leave the United States • Battle fought in April 1861 • Battle fought in Sept. 1862 • Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin • President of the Confederacy • Amendment that banned slavery • ...

Civil War 2026-04-28

Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. - where was the bloodiest battle of the war fought
  2. - the Confederacy decided to ____
  3. Ferry - What John Brown's massacre was called
  4. - where were prisoners of war held during the war
  5. - what was the better weapon that civil war soldiers used
  6. - The northern states
  7. - what was the first state to break away from the Union
  8. - what forced men to join the army
  9. - who was the human that built asylums
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  1. - four-year conflict between the Northern states (Union) and 11 Southern states (Confederacy)
  2. - what was an important city that General Grant took in the South, splitting the South
  3. - who was the person who led the union during the war
  4. - who was the main Union general in the later parts of the war (abbreviate middle name)
  5. - The 11 southern states
  6. - abolitionist who led massacre in Virgina
  7. - what was the Unions plan called (include the word plan)
  8. - who did the South elect as their president
  9. - what was the civil war fought to free
  10. - who was the main confederate general (abbreviate middle name)
  11. - which type of people in the north opposed the war

20 Clues: - The northern states • - The 11 southern states • - the Confederacy decided to ____ • - what forced men to join the army • - who was the human that built asylums • - what was the civil war fought to free • - abolitionist who led massacre in Virgina • - who did the South elect as their president • Ferry - What John Brown's massacre was called • ...

Civil War 2026-04-28

Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Bullets.
  2. A unit of typically 100 soldiers.
  3. The end of a line of battle; a weak, vulnerable spot
  4. Soldiers trained to fight on foot.
  5. A unit of artillery
  6. Living off the land by gathering or stealing food
  7. A surgeon.
  8. A small sewing kit carried by soldiers.
  9. An operation where an army surrounds a fortified place to force surrender
  10. Wagon or cart used to transport wounded or sick soldiers.
  11. Paper money issued by the North.
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  1. A soldier or small unit on guard duty.
  2. To run away, often used for fleeing troops.
  3. The period before the war.
  4. Pit A small hole dug for protection, similar to a modern foxhole.
  5. Felled trees with sharpened branches facing the enemy.
  6. A term for lice, or sometimes Confederate soldiers.
  7. A civilian merchant who followed the army to sell provisions.
  8. Food or rations.
  9. Soldiers who fought on horseback.

20 Clues: Bullets. • A surgeon. • Food or rations. • A unit of artillery • The period before the war. • Paper money issued by the North. • A unit of typically 100 soldiers. • Soldiers who fought on horseback. • Soldiers trained to fight on foot. • A soldier or small unit on guard duty. • A small sewing kit carried by soldiers. • To run away, often used for fleeing troops. • ...

Civil War 2026-04-21

Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. name of the plan the North devised to defeat the South
  2. battle that showed the North and the South the war would last longer than thought
  3. one reason why some men joined the army
  4. name of the leader of the Confederate armies in the East
  5. nickname of the general who turned the Battle of Bull Run
  6. one of the reasons Lee invaded Maryland
  7. former slave who urged Lincoln to make the war about slavery
  8. announcement that freed the slaves in the South
  9. president of the Union
  10. name of the ironclad for the South
  11. Sumter where the first shots of the Civil War were fired
  12. a name given to the soldiers of the South
  13. another name for the North
  14. wooden ship covered in iron plates
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  1. president of the South
  2. people who are killed, wounded, captured, or missing in battle
  3. a state that didn't secede but continued to have slaves
  4. when people are chosen randomly to be in the army
  5. name of the general Lincoln fired because he wasn't aggressive enough
  6. another name given to the South
  7. bloodiest battle of the Civil War to this point
  8. General nicknamed Unconditional Surrender
  9. one of the countries the South would become an ally
  10. Orleans battle that almost closed the Mississippi River to the South
  11. name of the ironclad for the North
  12. name given to soldiers in the North
  13. battle in which there were 23,000 casualties in two days

27 Clues: president of the South • president of the Union • another name for the North • another name given to the South • name of the ironclad for the North • name of the ironclad for the South • wooden ship covered in iron plates • name given to soldiers in the North • one reason why some men joined the army • one of the reasons Lee invaded Maryland • ...

Civil War 2026-05-04

Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. A formal, public announcement made by someone of authority
  2. a key Confederate earthen fort on Morris Island, South Carolina, that protected Charleston Harbor during the Civil War
  3. The 16th American president known for leading the nation through the Civil War
  4. A cardinal compass direction 180° opposite North
  5. A cardinal compass point (270°), opposite East, corresponding to the direction of the setting sun
  6. A town in Virginia where Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union General Ulysses S. Grant
  7. A person that supports the abolition of a specific practice
  8. A system where humans could buy other humans and use them for free labor
  9. A cardinal compass direction located at 0° or 360°
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  1. The process of electing a political leader
  2. A person, such as a suspected or convicted criminal, who flees from custody, law enforcement
  3. The act of setting someone free from the control, power, or legal authority of another.
  4. The 20 U.S. States that stayed loyal to the federal gov't in the 1860's
  5. The heavily armed, organized forces authorized by a state to defend its interests, conduct warfare, and maintain security.
  6. Someone that is against slavery
  7. A major civil war battle in Pennsylvania
  8. A large-scale battle with physical conflict
  9. The first and only president of the Confederate States of America
  10. A violent, organized conflict within a country
  11. A league of Confederate states

20 Clues: A league of Confederate states • Someone that is against slavery • A major civil war battle in Pennsylvania • The process of electing a political leader • A large-scale battle with physical conflict • A violent, organized conflict within a country • A cardinal compass direction 180° opposite North • A cardinal compass direction located at 0° or 360° • ...