civil war Crossword Puzzles

Civil war 2025-02-21

Civil war crossword puzzle
Across
  1. what the south was called
  2. the biggest border state
  3. what did the S stand for in Ulysses S Grant
  4. the first state to secede in civil war
  5. A war between citizens in the same country
  6. Where did the Battle of GettysBurg take place
  7. bleeding_______
  8. the most respected commander in the Confederacy Army
  9. _____Lincoln
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  1. president of south
  2. Capital of the confederacy
  3. how many years did the civil war last
  4. what was the turning point of the civil war
  5. last name of the general who led the union army
  6. _______Jackson
  7. what state was the last to free slaves
  8. What court was where the south surrendered

17 Clues: _____Lincoln • _______Jackson • bleeding_______ • president of south • the biggest border state • what the south was called • Capital of the confederacy • how many years did the civil war last • the first state to secede in civil war • what state was the last to free slaves • A war between citizens in the same country • What court was where the south surrendered • ...

Civil war 2025-02-21

Civil war crossword puzzle
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  1. bleeding_______
  2. how many years did the civil war last
  3. last name of the general who led the union army
  4. Where did the Battle of GettysBurg take place
  5. _____Lincoln
  6. the first state to secede in civil war
  7. what did the S stand for in Ulysses S Grant
  8. the most respected commander in the Confederacy Army
  9. president of south
  10. _______Jackson
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  1. What court was where the south surrendered
  2. the biggest border state
  3. A war between citizens in the same country
  4. Capital of the confederacy
  5. what was the turning point of the civil war
  6. what the south was called
  7. what state was the last to free slaves

17 Clues: _____Lincoln • _______Jackson • bleeding_______ • president of south • the biggest border state • what the south was called • Capital of the confederacy • how many years did the civil war last • the first state to secede in civil war • what state was the last to free slaves • What court was where the south surrendered • A war between citizens in the same country • ...

Civil War Review 2024-05-22

Civil War Review crossword puzzle
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  1. The president of the Union
  2. This invention allowed newspapers to publish firsthand sights from battlefields
  3. The best Confederate general
  4. The root cause of secession
  5. What you do when you meet expectations
  6. Who fired the first shots at Fort Sumter?
  7. Legal name of our hall pass
  8. The president of the Confederacy
  9. Cutting off a limb (common Civil War medical procedure)
  10. The amendment states referenced to justify secession
  11. The battle where the Union gained control of the Mississippi River
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  1. A word meaning freedom that Lincoln proclaimed during the Civil War
  2. The new types of ship used at Hampton Roads
  3. The color of the Union uniforms
  4. Heavy losses at this battle push Lincoln to sign the Emancipation Proclamation
  5. When a state leaves to form its own country
  6. Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, and Delaware were all _____ states
  7. The side the won the Civil War
  8. The turning point of the Civil War
  9. The part of the military that rides horses in battle
  10. Inventor of sideburns (also a bad Union general)

21 Clues: The president of the Union • The root cause of secession • Legal name of our hall pass • The best Confederate general • The side the won the Civil War • The color of the Union uniforms • The president of the Confederacy • The turning point of the Civil War • What you do when you meet expectations • Who fired the first shots at Fort Sumter? • ...

American Revolution 2017-05-22

American Revolution crossword puzzle
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  1. How many years was Abraham Lincoln president?
  2. What was the first battle of the Civil War?
  3. Where was Abraham Lincoln shot?
  4. To leave the Union.
  5. Which battle was a turning point in the east?
  6. The south grew crops on _________.
  7. Which amendment freed all slaves?
  8. What year did the civil war end?
  9. Which side was the Union?
  10. Who was the president of the confederacy?
  11. Who shot Lincoln?
  12. On April _______ the confederate army surrendered to the union.
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  1. Which side was the confederacy?
  2. Someone who is forced to to do manual labor with no pay.
  3. What year did the the civil war begin?
  4. Which battle was a turning point in the west?
  5. The document that freed slaves in the confederacy.
  6. The people in the north mainly worked in ___________.
  7. Commander of the confederate army.
  8. Which amendment gave African American male suffrage?
  9. Where were slaves brought to america from?
  10. The civil war lasted four ____________.
  11. Who was Lincoln's vice president.
  12. Who was the president of the union?
  13. Which amendment gave African American people equal protection under the law?

25 Clues: Who shot Lincoln? • To leave the Union. • Which side was the Union? • Which side was the confederacy? • Where was Abraham Lincoln shot? • What year did the civil war end? • Which amendment freed all slaves? • Who was Lincoln's vice president. • Commander of the confederate army. • The south grew crops on _________. • Who was the president of the union? • ...

Civil War Crossword 2017-05-20

Civil War Crossword crossword puzzle
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  1. Bloodiest battle of the Civil War, turning point in the east
  2. Chilean immigrant who earned the Medal of Honor
  3. President during the Civil War
  4. Author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" which opened people's eyes to slavery
  5. Thomas Jackon's nickname
  6. First battle in the Civil War
  7. Patriotic song written by Julia Ward Howe
  8. Bloodiest one day battle
  9. Law that required escaped slaves to be returned
  10. In South, for slavery
  11. Confederate general
  12. Union general
  13. Lincoln’s vice president, who became the next president after Lincoln was shot
  14. President of the Confederacy
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  1. Speech Lincoln delivered to free all slaves in the Confederacy
  2. Lincoln's speech that dedicated a cemetery to the battlefield and called for national unity
  3. In North, against slavery
  4. Shot Lincoln
  5. Started the American Red Cross
  6. First major land battle, earned Thomas Jackson a nickname
  7. First state to secede
  8. First African American to receive the Medal of Honor
  9. Main reason the Civil War was fought
  10. Turning point in the west, North took over the Mississippi river
  11. Union general “March to the Sea”

25 Clues: Shot Lincoln • Union general • Confederate general • First state to secede • In South, for slavery • Thomas Jackon's nickname • Bloodiest one day battle • In North, against slavery • President of the Confederacy • First battle in the Civil War • President during the Civil War • Started the American Red Cross • Union general “March to the Sea” • Main reason the Civil War was fought • ...

Growing Years and Civil War 2023-05-11

Growing Years and Civil War crossword puzzle
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  1. Escape Route for slaves
  2. When he was the age of ___________, Lincoln's Mom passed away
  3. Wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin
  4. Union plan to conquer the South
  5. Amendment passed in 1865 which officially ended Slavery
  6. 1859 abolitionist who raided Harpers Ferry, VA for guns
  7. "You can't tell me what to do! I'm free now!"
  8. Let the people of the state decide on slavery!
  9. Killed over 60 whites
  10. Forced removal of Natives
  11. Put in Place after Nat Turners rebellion
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  1. Name we give this state event, for where they fought over slavery
  2. We had more workers, valued goods, clothing, guns and railroads
  3. Major cause of the Civil War
  4. I was associated with the North Star
  5. Eventually were allowed to join the Civil War and fight for lower pay
  6. The capital of the Confederacy
  7. People who wanted to end slavery
  8. The North during the Civil War
  9. Once elected, the South succeeded or left the Union
  10. The South during the Civil War
  11. I'd say I was an actor, you'd call me an assassin

22 Clues: Killed over 60 whites • Escape Route for slaves • Wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin • Forced removal of Natives • Major cause of the Civil War • The capital of the Confederacy • The North during the Civil War • The South during the Civil War • Union plan to conquer the South • People who wanted to end slavery • I was associated with the North Star • Put in Place after Nat Turners rebellion • ...

Reconstruction 2025-12-05

Reconstruction crossword puzzle
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  1. Event that made Johnson president after Lincoln
  2. Gives citizenship to freed African Americans
  3. Rights protected by the 15th Amendment
  4. Secret group using violence to stop African Americans from voting
  5. Agency that helped freed slaves with food, schools, and jobs
  6. Johnson gave these to many former Confederates
  7. President who enforced laws protecting African Americans
  8. Laws enforcing segregation in the South
  9. Separation of people based on race in public spaces
  10. Period after the Civil War to rebuild the South
  11. Congress group that wanted stricter rules for Reconstruction
  12. Impeached President who almost got removed after opposing Congress
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  1. System where farmers gave a portion of crops to landowners
  2. Laws limiting the freedom of African Americans after the Civil War
  3. Areas of the South controlled by federal troops
  4. requiring 10% of voters to swear loyalty to the Union
  5. Gives African American men the right to vote
  6. Deal that ended Reconstruction and removed federal troops
  7. What Lincoln wanted for the South after the Civil War
  8. Former slaves who gained freedom after the Civil War

20 Clues: Rights protected by the 15th Amendment • Laws enforcing segregation in the South • Gives citizenship to freed African Americans • Gives African American men the right to vote • Johnson gave these to many former Confederates • Event that made Johnson president after Lincoln • Areas of the South controlled by federal troops • ...

CIVIL WAR 2021-11-03

CIVIL WAR crossword puzzle
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  1. what did the north try to end
  2. what was a crucial success for the Union Army
  3. What part of california did they fight in
  4. What place had 2 major battles in it
  5. What was the first battle during the civil war
  6. what happend during April 12, 1861 – April 9, 1865
  7. Who led the Union to victory over the confederacy in the American Civil War.
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  1. What did africans americans want for them selves
  2. What was the fourth battle during the civil war
  3. Which person led the south to war
  4. who was leader in the abolitionist movement
  5. what side wanted to keep slavery
  6. Who was the president during the civil war
  7. 23,000 men died in what place
  8. what side wanted to end slavery

15 Clues: what did the north try to end • 23,000 men died in what place • what side wanted to end slavery • what side wanted to keep slavery • Which person led the south to war • What place had 2 major battles in it • What part of california did they fight in • Who was the president during the civil war • who was leader in the abolitionist movement • ...

Civil war puzzle 2022-03-04

Civil war puzzle crossword puzzle
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  1. A previously enslaved man.
  2. first american civil war bombard
  3. a person who supported the union during the civil war
  4. long spear attached to the end of a musket
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  1. confederate general.
  2. disrupted confederate blockades
  3. a group of soldiers
  4. focus on the interest in ones religion.
  5. a person who wanted to abolish slavery
  6. war
  7. A union fleet sail into the harbor.
  8. general
  9. texas destroyed 5,000 bales of cotton
  10. thefinal battle of the civil war

14 Clues: war • general • a group of soldiers • confederate general. • A previously enslaved man. • disrupted confederate blockades • thefinal battle of the civil war • A union fleet sail into the harbor. • texas destroyed 5,000 bales of cotton • a person who wanted to abolish slavery • focus on the interest in ones religion. • long spear attached to the end of a musket • ...

Robert E. Lee 2015-05-08

Robert E. Lee crossword puzzle
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  1. What was he buried without
  2. How many demerits did Robert have when he graduated from West Point
  3. What did Robert do to General Ulysses S. Grant in 1865
  4. Who did Robert enter the Civil War with
  5. What war did his tactical planning help America win
  6. What is one war Robert fought in
  7. Robert was____the Civil War
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  1. What month was Robert E. Lee born in
  2. Mexico agreed to a peace settlement in 1848
  3. On September 1, 1852, he became _____
  4. Did Robert's side lose or win the Civil War
  5. What state was Robert E. Lee born in
  6. Robert graduated from West point in 1830/true or false
  7. In 1831 he married Mary _____

14 Clues: What was he buried without • Robert was____the Civil War • In 1831 he married Mary _____ • What is one war Robert fought in • What month was Robert E. Lee born in • What state was Robert E. Lee born in • On September 1, 1852, he became _____ • Who did Robert enter the Civil War with • Mexico agreed to a peace settlement in 1848 • Did Robert's side lose or win the Civil War • ...

spring semester Puzzle 2026-03-04

spring semester Puzzle crossword puzzle
Across
  1. - Process of charging a president with wrongdoing.
  2. - Law forcing return of escaped slaves.
  3. -Lincoln’s demand to know where the war with Mexico began.
  4. -Leader of Texas who won independence from Mexico.
  5. - Amendment giving Black men the right to vote.
  6. - Period of rebuilding the South after the Civil War.
  7. - U.S. president who led the Union in the Civil War.
  8. - Abolitionist who attacked Harpers Ferry.
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  1. - A mission in Texas where Texans fought Mexico in 1836.
  2. - Amendment that abolished slavery.
  3. - 1820 law balancing free and slave states.
  4. - People vote on slavery in a territory.
  5. - President of the Confederacy during the Civil War.
  6. - Major Southern crop supporting the economy.
  7. Carolina - First state to secede from the Union.
  8. - Law creating aid for freed slaves after the war.
  9. star -The independent nation of Texas from 1836–1845.
  10. - Leader who helped slaves escape north.
  11. - Vice president who became president after Lincoln’s death.
  12. - Migration to California after gold was discovered in 1848.

20 Clues: - Amendment that abolished slavery. • - Law forcing return of escaped slaves. • - People vote on slavery in a territory. • - Leader who helped slaves escape north. • - Abolitionist who attacked Harpers Ferry. • - 1820 law balancing free and slave states. • - Major Southern crop supporting the economy. • - Amendment giving Black men the right to vote. • ...

Road to the Civil War Part 2 2021-04-20

Road to the Civil War Part 2 crossword puzzle
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  1. Was part of the Compromise of 1850. The act required that slaves be returned to their owners, even if they were in a free state. The act also made the federal government responsible for finding, returning and trying escaped slaves.
  2. An American military leader who served as the 18th president of the United States from 1869 to 1877. As president, Grant was an effective civil rights executive who created the Justice Department and worked with the Radical Republicans during Reconstruction to protect African Americans.
  3. Commonly referred to as the Confederate States or the Confederacy, was an unrecognized breakaway state in existence from February 8, 1861, to May 9, 1865, that fought against the United States of America during the American Civil War.
  4. An island fortification located in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina most famous for being the site of the first shots of the Civil War (1861-65). ... Beauregard bombarded Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861, kicking off the battle.
  5. A presidential proclamation and executive order issued by United States President Abraham Lincoln on September 22, 1862, during the Civil War.
  6. Were state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States.
  7. Was a package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress in September 1850 that defused a political confrontation between slave and free states on the status of territories acquired in the Mexican–American War.
  8. An unsuccessful 1846 proposal in the United States Congress to ban slavery in territory acquired from Mexico in the Mexican–American War. The conflict over the Wilmot Proviso was one of the major events leading to the American Civil War.
  9. The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands was an important agency of early Reconstruction, assisting freedmen in the South.
  10. Refers to the diplomatic methods employed by the Confederacy during the American Civil War to coerce the United Kingdom and France to support the Confederate war effort by implementing a cotton trade embargo against the United Kingdom and the rest of Europe.
  11. Was an American politician who served as the president of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1865. As a member of the Democratic Party, he represented Mississippi in the United States Senate and the House of Representatives before the American Civil War.
  12. An American Confederate general best known as a commander of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. He led the Army of Northern Virginia from 1862 until its surrender in 1865 and earned a reputation as a skilled tactician.
  13. A raid on Harpers Ferry was an effort by abolitionist John Brown, from October 16 to 18, 1859, to initiate a slave revolt in Southern states by taking over the United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. It has been called the dress rehearsal for, or Tragic Prelude to, the Civil War.
  14. Withdraw formally from membership of a federal union, an alliance, or a political or religious organization.
  15. Also known as the Declaration of Rights and Sentiments is a document signed in 1848 by 68 women and 32 men—100 out of some 300 attendees at the first women's rights convention to be organized by women.
  16. Was fought July 1–3, 1863, in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, by Union and Confederate forces during the American Civil War.
  17. In the American Civil War, site in Virginia of the surrender of the Confederate forces to those of the North on April 9, 1865. ... Robert E. Lee surrendered to Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, thus effectively ending the Civil War.
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  1. Repealed the Missouri Compromise, created two new territories and allowed for popular sovereignty. It also produced a violent uprising known as “Bleeding Kansas,” as proslavery and antislavery activists flooded into the territories to sway the vote.
  2. Published in 1852, the novel had a profound effect on attitudes toward African Americans and slavery in the U.S. and is said to have "helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War".
  3. A speech that U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivered during the American Civil War at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on the afternoon of November 19, 1863.
  4. Military conflict in which the contenders are willing to make any sacrifice in lives and other resources to obtain a complete victory, as distinguished from limited war. Throughout history, limitations on the scope of warfare have been more economic and social than political.
  5. An American social reformer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement. Born into a Quaker family committed to social equality, she collected anti-slavery petitions at the age of 17.
  6. Occurred from May 23 and continued until May 26, 1856, with the killings occurring on the night of May 24 and the morning of May.
  7. Either of two distinct U.S. hate organizations that employed terror in pursuit of their white supremacist agenda.
  8. Also known as the Battle of Sharpsburg, particularly in the Southern United States, was a battle of the American Civil War, fought on September 17, 1862.
  9. In U.S. history, the period (1865–77) that followed the American Civil War and during which attempts were made to redress the inequities of slavery and its political, social, and economic legacy and to solve the problems arising from the readmission to the Union of the 11 states that had seceded at or before the outbreak of war.
  10. An American statesman and lawyer who served as the 16th president of the United States from 1861 until his assassination in 1865. Lincoln led the nation through the American Civil War, the country's greatest moral, cultural, constitutional, and political crisis.
  11. Referred to as the GOP ("Grand Old Party"), is one of the two major political parties in the United States. ... The party opposed the expansion of slavery before 1861 and led the fight to destroy the Confederate States of America (1861–1865).
  12. An enslaved African-American man in the United States who unsuccessfully sued for his freedom and that of his wife, Harriet Robinson Scott, and their two daughters in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case of 1857, popularly known as the "Dred Scott decision"

29 Clues: Were state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States. • Withdraw formally from membership of a federal union, an alliance, or a political or religious organization. • Either of two distinct U.S. hate organizations that employed terror in pursuit of their white supremacist agenda. • ...

Spring semester Puzzle 2026-03-04

Spring semester Puzzle crossword puzzle
Across
  1. - Process of charging a president with wrongdoing.
  2. - Law forcing return of escaped slaves.
  3. -Lincoln’s demand to know where the war with Mexico began.
  4. -Leader of Texas who won independence from Mexico.
  5. - Amendment giving Black men the right to vote.
  6. - Period of rebuilding the South after the Civil War.
  7. - U.S. president who led the Union in the Civil War.
  8. - Abolitionist who attacked Harpers Ferry.
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  1. - A mission in Texas where Texans fought Mexico in 1836.
  2. - Amendment that abolished slavery.
  3. - 1820 law balancing free and slave states.
  4. - People vote on slavery in a territory.
  5. - President of the Confederacy during the Civil War.
  6. - Major Southern crop supporting the economy.
  7. Carolina - First state to secede from the Union.
  8. - Law creating aid for freed slaves after the war.
  9. star -The independent nation of Texas from 1836–1845.
  10. - Leader who helped slaves escape north.
  11. - Vice president who became president after Lincoln’s death.
  12. - Migration to California after gold was discovered in 1848.

20 Clues: - Amendment that abolished slavery. • - Law forcing return of escaped slaves. • - People vote on slavery in a territory. • - Leader who helped slaves escape north. • - Abolitionist who attacked Harpers Ferry. • - 1820 law balancing free and slave states. • - Major Southern crop supporting the economy. • - Amendment giving Black men the right to vote. • ...

The Civil War 2022-05-17

The Civil War crossword puzzle
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  1. To break away from
  2. Union states that allowed slavery
  3. Site of Lincoln assassination;___ theater
  4. Capital of the Confederacy
  5. Assassinated Lincoln
  6. Lead general of the Confederate forces.
  7. A Union soldier was known as a _________.
  8. ___________Proclamation
  9. Lincoln wanted to stop the ___ of slavery.
  10. Turning point of the Civil War
  11. A Confederate soldier was known as a ____.
  12. Abolished Slavery; 13th __________.
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  1. Ultimately chosen to lead the Union Army
  2. The first state to secede was South _____.
  3. African American regiment; The _____ 54th
  4. The entire southern economy was based on
  5. The first battle fought at Fort ___.
  6. General Thomas Jackson's nickname
  7. The northern economy was largely based on
  8. Confederate President during the Civil War
  9. President of the U.S. during the Civil War

21 Clues: To break away from • Assassinated Lincoln • ___________Proclamation • Capital of the Confederacy • Turning point of the Civil War • Union states that allowed slavery • General Thomas Jackson's nickname • Abolished Slavery; 13th __________. • The first battle fought at Fort ___. • Lead general of the Confederate forces. • Ultimately chosen to lead the Union Army • ...

Wars 2022-04-27

Wars crossword puzzle
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  1. The war that Sparta fought Athens
  2. The war war for freedom and black rights
  3. The war that gave the North a better spirit in the civil war
  4. The President that was in office during the civil war
  5. The war in which we fought the Germans
  6. The war in which we gained our freedom from Great Britain
  7. The name of one the sides in the civil war(nickname)
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  1. The war in which we fought in Europe
  2. The war in the vietnamese nations
  3. The president that declared war on Afghanistan
  4. The war in which the Persians fought the Greeks
  5. One of the presidents and greatest leader in the American Revolution
  6. The war against the koreans

13 Clues: The war against the koreans • The war that Sparta fought Athens • The war in the vietnamese nations • The war in which we fought in Europe • The war in which we fought the Germans • The war war for freedom and black rights • The president that declared war on Afghanistan • The war in which the Persians fought the Greeks • ...

Semester Test Review 2025-05-12

Semester Test Review crossword puzzle
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  1. Bureau est. after the Civil War to support former slaves and black veterans
  2. The process of trying to teach Indians how to act more like Americans
  3. This political group sought equal rights for African Americans after the Civil War
  4. This hate group was formed after the Civil War to try and bring back white supremacy to the govt.
  5. Holiday that celebrates the ending of slavery in the USA
  6. Name of the journey that many Native Americans took to Indian Territory
  7. Laws that were passed that made segregation and other forms of discrimination against blacks legal
  8. This amendment granted African American men the right to vote in the USA
  9. How many of each free and slave states there were after the Missouri Compromise
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  1. This issue was the main topic at the Seneca Falls convention in 1848
  2. This religious group mass-migrated to Utah in the 1840's after being persecuted
  3. The North had significantly more of this than the South, making it easier to connect major cities
  4. Idea that Americans had the right to expand all the way to the Pacific Ocean
  5. Main general of the Union Army, goes on the be the 18th president
  6. This amendment grants citizenship to all people born in the USA
  7. First battle of the Civil War occurs here
  8. Last name of the most famous conductor of the Underground Railroad.
  9. These were used to try and limit voter participation for African Americans
  10. This amendment ends slavery and involuntary servitude in the USA
  11. Main general of the Confederacy during the Civil War. He surrenders to lose the War
  12. The USA gained CA,NV,and UT after beating this country in a war

21 Clues: First battle of the Civil War occurs here • Holiday that celebrates the ending of slavery in the USA • This amendment grants citizenship to all people born in the USA • The USA gained CA,NV,and UT after beating this country in a war • This amendment ends slavery and involuntary servitude in the USA • ...

civil war 2022-03-07

civil war crossword puzzle
Across
  1. who won the civil war
  2. the bloodiest battle of the civil war
  3. who assassinated lincon
  4. angle of the battle field
  5. nickname for anderew jackson
  6. who was the 17th president
  7. how many years did the civi war last
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  1. first battle of the civi war
  2. the year civil war started
  3. the month the civil war ended
  4. said he wont spread slavery

11 Clues: who won the civil war • who assassinated lincon • angle of the battle field • the year civil war started • who was the 17th president • said he wont spread slavery • first battle of the civi war • nickname for anderew jackson • the month the civil war ended • how many years did the civi war last • the bloodiest battle of the civil war

EOC Bible 35-72 2025-11-18

EOC Bible 35-72 crossword puzzle
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  1. amendment that ended slavery
  2. President during the War of 1812
  3. US right to expand west
  4. President that made the Louisana Purchase
  5. movement to ban slavery
  6. laws that prevented blacks from voting
  7. the US would not tolerate any European interference
  8. amendment that gave black males the right to vote
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  1. the first President
  2. movement to ban alchohol
  3. turning point battle of the Civil war
  4. President that wanted the Alien and Sediton Act
  5. bloodiest battle of the Civil War
  6. supreme court decision that said slaves were property
  7. President that caused the Trail of Tears
  8. President that issued the emancipation proclamation
  9. first shots of the civil war fired

17 Clues: the first President • US right to expand west • movement to ban slavery • movement to ban alchohol • amendment that ended slavery • President during the War of 1812 • bloodiest battle of the Civil War • first shots of the civil war fired • turning point battle of the Civil war • laws that prevented blacks from voting • President that caused the Trail of Tears • ...

Blood And Iron Crossword 2023-06-04

Blood And Iron Crossword crossword puzzle
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  1. ____ War (Wooden Horse)
  2. ____ Civil War
  3. ____ War (Drug Name)
  4. ____nam War
  5. Norman ____
  6. American _____ War
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  1. Operation ____
  2. German Wars of Uni___
  3. American War Of ____
  4. ___ War (Bird)
  5. Anglo-____ War

11 Clues: ____nam War • Norman ____ • Operation ____ • ____ Civil War • ___ War (Bird) • Anglo-____ War • American _____ War • American War Of ____ • ____ War (Drug Name) • German Wars of Uni___ • ____ War (Wooden Horse)

Civil War Crossword Puzzle 2021-04-16

Civil War Crossword Puzzle crossword puzzle
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  1. President of the United States during Civil War
  2. battle in which Gen. Lee's plan to end the war through Confederate victory failed, causing the most casualties of any battle during the civil war
  3. location of first battle during Civil War
  4. a person who has views against slavery
  5. states that supported slavery; opposite of northern states
  6. president of the Confederate States
  7. one of the main confederate generals who led attack on Fort Sumter
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  1. opposing belligerent to Union
  2. supporting slavery
  3. law stating that any state above- Missouri is a free state
  4. one of the main causes of civil war; the act of keeping people for labor with no pay under extremely poor and cruel conditions
  5. opposing belligerent to Confederacy
  6. main confederate general, who surrendered to Union Army to end Civil War

13 Clues: supporting slavery • opposing belligerent to Union • opposing belligerent to Confederacy • president of the Confederate States • a person who has views against slavery • location of first battle during Civil War • President of the United States during Civil War • law stating that any state above- Missouri is a free state • ...

The Civil War 2021-09-18

The Civil War crossword puzzle
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  1. he was president during the Civil War
  2. it was against the law for slaves to read and ____
  3. this side won the Civil War
  4. the Civil War is also called the War between the ____
  5. this was Lincoln’s first name
  6. in this month we celebrate Presidents Day
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  1. this side lost the Civil War
  2. slaves did not have these freedoms
  3. after the Civil War, black men could do this
  4. the Emancipation Proclamation ended this
  5. people were brought from here to be slaves

11 Clues: this side won the Civil War • this side lost the Civil War • this was Lincoln’s first name • slaves did not have these freedoms • he was president during the Civil War • the Emancipation Proclamation ended this • in this month we celebrate Presidents Day • people were brought from here to be slaves • after the Civil War, black men could do this • ...

Vocabulary/Spelling- Civil War 1 2024-02-02

Vocabulary/Spelling- Civil War 1 crossword puzzle
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  1. The company was ____________ cotton to sell to clothing companies.
  2. The prefix meaning against or opposite.
  3. The word ___________ can mean polite, but in the term _______ War, it means a war inside a country.
  4. _________________________ work is important because it gives us food and materials we need.
  5. The _____________ is about how we make, buy, and sell things, and it changed a lot because of the Civil War.
  6. In 1865, slavery was __________________ and officially ended in the United States.
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  1. The _____________________ states were the 11 southern states that left the United States during the Civil War.
  2. The Civil War had a big _____________ on our country.
  3. ________________ was a sad part of our history where people owned other people, mostly in the South.
  4. Some southern states _____________, or left the United States, which started the Civil War.
  5. The _________________ revolution changed the world; we moved from farming to factory work.
  6. The ____________ is what we call the northern states that stayed with the United States during the Civil War.
  7. The prefix meaning away or from.

13 Clues: The prefix meaning away or from. • The prefix meaning against or opposite. • The Civil War had a big _____________ on our country. • The company was ____________ cotton to sell to clothing companies. • In 1865, slavery was __________________ and officially ended in the United States. • ...

Slavery and The American Civil War 2014-04-02

Slavery and The American Civil War crossword puzzle
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  1. intrument of torture
  2. short and famous speech given by abraham Lincoln
  3. the amount of states which seceded from the union
  4. president abraham lincoln led this group
  5. capital of the confederacy
  6. founded in tennessee in 1866
  7. abraham lincoln ordered it for the southern ports in 1861
  8. who did europeans enslave at first in the americas?
  9. where the civil war began
  10. major battle during the civil war
  11. person who is running away from someone or something
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  1. country that slaves were transported to
  2. name given to slaves
  3. first state to leave the union
  4. the reason to why native americans were dying in large numbers
  5. program by the federal government following the civil war
  6. confederat state general
  7. head of the confederate states of america
  8. safe place where fugitives would hide
  9. gathering crops from a field
  10. when new slaves arrived
  11. how civil war went for ___ years
  12. state which seceded from the union
  13. the amount of years that jefferson davis was hold in office for
  14. person who has control over slaves

25 Clues: name given to slaves • intrument of torture • when new slaves arrived • confederat state general • where the civil war began • capital of the confederacy • gathering crops from a field • founded in tennessee in 1866 • first state to leave the union • how civil war went for ___ years • major battle during the civil war • state which seceded from the union • ...

The 1960s: Conflict, Change, and Culture 2026-03-05

The 1960s: Conflict, Change, and Culture crossword puzzle
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  1. Wall that divided East and West Germany during the Cold War
  2. LBJ’s domestic program to fight poverty
  3. 1969 music festival symbolizing 1960s culture
  4. The failed 1961 invasion of Cuba
  5. President who launched the Great Society programs
  6. Law signed in 1964 ending segregation in public places
  7. Conflict between U.S. and Soviet Union without direct fighting
  8. Leader of the Civil Rights Movement who gave the “I Have a Dream” speech
  9. Protest against the Vietnam War where students were shot in 1970
  10. JFK’s program encouraging Americans to serve their country
  11. The 1962 crisis involving Soviet missiles in Cuba
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  1. War fought between North and South Vietnam (1955–1975)
  2. Policy aimed at stopping the spread of communism
  3. The Supreme Court case that desegregated schools (earlier, but key to Civil Rights)
  4. African American leader associated with Black Power
  5. Movement that promoted peace, love, and rebellion against traditional values
  6. U.S. President assassinated in 1963
  7. Civil rights activist who refused to give up her bus seat
  8. Youth movement protesting war and supporting civil rights
  9. Amendment banning poll taxes (1964)

20 Clues: The failed 1961 invasion of Cuba • U.S. President assassinated in 1963 • Amendment banning poll taxes (1964) • LBJ’s domestic program to fight poverty • 1969 music festival symbolizing 1960s culture • Policy aimed at stopping the spread of communism • President who launched the Great Society programs • The 1962 crisis involving Soviet missiles in Cuba • ...

Civil War Crossword 2017-05-22

Civil War Crossword crossword puzzle
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  1. President during the Civil War
  2. Started the American Red Cross
  3. In South, for slavery
  4. Lincoln’s vice president, who became the next president after Lincoln was shot
  5. Bloodiest one day battle
  6. In North, against slavery
  7. First battle in the Civil War
  8. Chilean immigrant who earned the Medal of Honor
  9. Confederate general
  10. Patriotic song written by Julia Ward Howe
  11. First state to secede
  12. President of the Confederacy
  13. Author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" which opened people's eyes to slavery
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  1. First major land battle, earned Thomas Jackson a nickname
  2. Speech Lincoln delivered to free all slaves in the Confederacy
  3. Union general
  4. Union general “March to the Sea”
  5. Turning point in the west, North took over the Mississippi river
  6. Lincoln's speech that dedicated a cemetery to the battlefield and called for national unity
  7. Bloodiest battle of the Civil War, turning point in the east
  8. Law that required escaped slaves to be returned
  9. Thomas Jackon's nickname
  10. Shot Lincoln
  11. First African American to receive the Medal of Honor
  12. Main reason the Civil War was fought

25 Clues: Shot Lincoln • Union general • Confederate general • In South, for slavery • First state to secede • Bloodiest one day battle • Thomas Jackon's nickname • In North, against slavery • President of the Confederacy • First battle in the Civil War • President during the Civil War • Started the American Red Cross • Union general “March to the Sea” • Main reason the Civil War was fought • ...

The American Civil War Crossword 2023-10-19

The American Civil War Crossword crossword puzzle
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  1. A self-taught nurse who founded the Red Cross.
  2. The South _______ from the Union.
  3. What was the Confederacy’s nickname?
  4. A speech given by Abraham Lincoln after the Battle of Gettysburg.
  5. Who was the Commanding Officer of the 20th Regiment Maine Volunteer Infantry?
  6. What was the military strategy of the Union?
  7. Who killed Abraham Lincoln?
  8. What was the first battle that started the Civil War?
  9. What month did the Civil War start?
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  1. Who led the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia?
  2. What was the bloodiest battle in the Civil War?
  3. Who led the Union Army to victory?
  4. Who was the first and only president of the Confederate States of America
  5. What was the Union’s nickname?
  6. The Confederacy wanted to ________ their way of life.
  7. What was the first state to leave the Union?
  8. Who issued the Emancipation Proclamation?
  9. What was the battle with the most casualties in a day?
  10. What was the Emancipation Proclamation mainly about?
  11. Who won most of the major battles in the Civil War?

20 Clues: Who killed Abraham Lincoln? • What was the Union’s nickname? • The South _______ from the Union. • Who led the Union Army to victory? • What month did the Civil War start? • What was the Confederacy’s nickname? • Who issued the Emancipation Proclamation? • What was the first state to leave the Union? • What was the military strategy of the Union? • ...

Unit 5 Crossword 2026-01-26

Unit 5 Crossword crossword puzzle
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  1. What code was developed to send messages through the telegraph
  2. term that means 'obvious fate to expand out west & spread democracy
  3. States that remained in the US
  4. means secret- not actually in the ground
  5. Letting states decide
  6. War that occurs between its own citizens
  7. The South was focused on ______
  8. President of the Union during the Civil War
  9. Escaping slaves wove codes into _____
  10. First state to secede from the Union
  11. Who aided Lewis & Clark with their trip out west
  12. Lewis & Clark went on a ______ to explore the new land out west
  13. This invention made the demand for cotton production go up
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  1. Growing divide between the North & South before Civil War
  2. This railroad went across the US
  3. means transportation- not actually a train
  4. land bought by POTUS Jefferson to expand US
  5. The North was focused on _______
  6. Someone who fights to end slavery
  7. President of the Confederacy during the Civil War
  8. Novel that changed the North's perception of slavery
  9. French leader who Jefferson bought land from
  10. Debate over allow _______ in the west
  11. States that secede from the US

24 Clues: Letting states decide • States that remained in the US • States that secede from the US • The South was focused on ______ • This railroad went across the US • The North was focused on _______ • Someone who fights to end slavery • First state to secede from the Union • Escaping slaves wove codes into _____ • Debate over allow _______ in the west • ...

Civil War Crossword Puzzle 2021-10-14

Civil War Crossword Puzzle crossword puzzle
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  1. Executive order issued on January 1, 1863 during the Civil War, freeing American slaves.
  2. Confederate general, responsible for commanding the Confederate States Army
  3. first to occur for U.S. citizens in American history due to the conscription act
  4. Confederate capital during the Civil War, holding supplies, hospitals, prisons, and general industry vital to the war efforts
  5. Also known as the the First Battle of Bull Run
  6. naval battle between Confederate and Union ships at Sewell’s Point
  7. Collective of northern states in the U.S. at the time of the Civil War
  8. Union capital during the Civil War, serving as the base of operations and U.S. government territory
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  1. diplomatic tactics utilized by the Confederacy with the goal of gaining the support of France and Great Britain by a cotton trade embargo against Britain and Europe as a whole
  2. Commonly referred to as the bloodiest battle of the Civil War with 23,000 men killed or wounded in a single day
  3. Collective of southern states in the U.S. at the time of the Civil War
  4. Battle between the Confederacy and Union on July 1-3, 1863 in Pennsylvania.
  5. President responsible for issuing the emancipation proclamation, liberating the enslaved people of the United States
  6. Union general and president of the U.S. from 1869 to 1877.
  7. American war spawning partially as a result from debates over the prohibiting of slavery

15 Clues: Also known as the the First Battle of Bull Run • Union general and president of the U.S. from 1869 to 1877. • naval battle between Confederate and Union ships at Sewell’s Point • Collective of southern states in the U.S. at the time of the Civil War • Collective of northern states in the U.S. at the time of the Civil War • ...

Civil War Shai-Ann Trinidad 2017-02-14

Civil War Shai-Ann Trinidad crossword puzzle
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  1. abolish slavery
  2. Total war tatic that destroyed Georgia
  3. Known as the bloodiest battle or first national cemetary
  4. Place where Robert E Lee surrendered
  5. a presidential proclamation and executive order issued by President Abraham Lincoln
  6. the union strategic plan to defeat the confederacy at the start of the american civil war
  7. compulsory enlistmentfor state service
  8. A creek of north-central Maryland emptying into the Potomac River
  9. General of the union who practiced total war
  10. what robert e lee was fighting for
  11. first step of becoming the confederacy
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  1. advantage of the north
  2. battle that cut the confederacy into two
  3. the first and only president of the confederate states of america
  4. spoke at Gettysburg and made a famous speech
  5. he assassinated lincoln
  6. lincoln suspends
  7. advantage of the south
  8. where the first battle of the civil war started.
  9. a league or alliance
  10. helps wounded soldiers
  11. commanding the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia in the American Civil War

22 Clues: abolish slavery • lincoln suspends • a league or alliance • advantage of the north • advantage of the south • helps wounded soldiers • he assassinated lincoln • what robert e lee was fighting for • Place where Robert E Lee surrendered • Total war tatic that destroyed Georgia • compulsory enlistmentfor state service • first step of becoming the confederacy • ...

wars 2024-01-15

wars crossword puzzle
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  1. conflict between the U.S. and Britain
  2. 1066 battle that changed the course of English history
  3. War Conflict known as the "War of Northern Aggression"
  4. Famous naval battle in 1588
  5. Persian War battle site in 480 BCE
  6. Famous World War II beach landing
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  1. Parallel. Korean War cease-fire line
  2. WWII Axis Power
  3. Vietnam War chemical defoliant
  4. The "War to End All Wars"
  5. War Major Cold War ideological struggle
  6. Napoleonic Wars battle of 1815
  7. ____, Civil War General
  8. Ancient conflict, "The Peloponnesian ____"

14 Clues: WWII Axis Power • ____, Civil War General • The "War to End All Wars" • Famous naval battle in 1588 • Vietnam War chemical defoliant • Napoleonic Wars battle of 1815 • Famous World War II beach landing • Persian War battle site in 480 BCE • conflict between the U.S. and Britain • Parallel. Korean War cease-fire line • Ancient conflict, "The Peloponnesian ____" • ...

Civil War - Sophia Choudhri 2019-12-02

Civil War - Sophia Choudhri crossword puzzle
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  1. general that led the confederacy and was defeated by Grant
  2. had the advantage of size, population, and industry
  3. first battle of the Civil War
  4. eleven states seceded to form the
  5. bloodiest-single day of fighting in the war
  6. they enlisted in the Union Army after 1862
  7. conflict between the Union and the Confederacy
  8. general that led the March to the Sea
  9. created Army of the Potomac
  10. mistakenly killed at Chancellorsville May 1863
  11. bloodiest 3 day engagement of the Civil War
  12. medical care often involved
  13. the president of the Confederacy
  14. general that defeats Robert E. Lee and won the Civil War
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  1. cotton exports were an advantage to this area
  2. slave states that remained loyal to the Union
  3. men 20-45 were eligible for draft
  4. Lincoln was shot by
  5. freed slaves in states against the union
  6. Lee surrendered at this court house on April 9, 1865
  7. president of the Union
  8. after this war the Union controlled the Mississippi River

22 Clues: Lincoln was shot by • president of the Union • created Army of the Potomac • medical care often involved • first battle of the Civil War • the president of the Confederacy • men 20-45 were eligible for draft • eleven states seceded to form the • general that led the March to the Sea • freed slaves in states against the union • they enlisted in the Union Army after 1862 • ...

Civil war 2025-02-21

Civil war crossword puzzle
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  1. last name of the general who led the union army
  2. the most respected commander in the Confederacy Army
  3. what state was the last to free slaves
  4. Capital of the confederacy
  5. what was the turning point of the civil war
  6. What court was where the south surrendered
  7. how many years did the civil war last
  8. the first state to secede in civil war
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  1. Where did the Battle of GettysBurg take place
  2. president of south
  3. A war between citizens in the same country
  4. bleeding_______
  5. what the south was called
  6. what did the S stand for in Ulysses S Grant
  7. the biggest border state
  8. _______Jackson
  9. _____Lincoln

17 Clues: _____Lincoln • _______Jackson • bleeding_______ • president of south • the biggest border state • what the south was called • Capital of the confederacy • how many years did the civil war last • what state was the last to free slaves • the first state to secede in civil war • A war between citizens in the same country • What court was where the south surrendered • ...

Civil War 2025-05-05

Civil War crossword puzzle
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  1. – The right to live without being controlled by others.
  2. – To leave or break away from a group or country.
  3. – The practice of owning people and forcing them to work.
  4. Davis – The President of the Confederate States.
  5. – The act of freeing people from slavery.
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  1. – A major battle during the Civil War.
  2. – The time after the Civil War when the country was being rebuilt.
  3. – The group of Southern states that left the Union.
  4. – A large farm in the South that used enslaved labor.
  5. War – A war between people of the same country.
  6. – The Northern states during the Civil War.
  7. Lincoln – The U.S. President during the Civil War.

12 Clues: – A major battle during the Civil War. • – The act of freeing people from slavery. • – The Northern states during the Civil War. • War – A war between people of the same country. • Davis – The President of the Confederate States. • – To leave or break away from a group or country. • Lincoln – The U.S. President during the Civil War. • ...

American Civil War and Slavery 2014-03-16

American Civil War and Slavery crossword puzzle
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  1. major battle during the civil war
  2. the amount of years that jefferson davis was hold in office for
  3. the reason to why native americans were dying in large numbers
  4. where the civil war began
  5. name given to slaves
  6. first state to leave the union
  7. confederat state general
  8. when new slaves arrived
  9. intrument of torture
  10. capital of the confederacy
  11. the amount of states which seceded from the union
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  1. person who has control over slaves
  2. founded in tennessee in 1866
  3. country that slaves were transported to
  4. safe place where fugitives would hide
  5. how civil war went for ___ years
  6. abraham lincoln ordered it for the southern ports in 1861
  7. person who is running away from someone or something
  8. short and famous speech given by abraham Lincoln
  9. program by the federal government following the civil war
  10. head of the cnfederate states of america
  11. who did europeans enslave at first in the americas?
  12. president abraham lincoln led this group
  13. state which seceded from the union
  14. gathering crops from a field

25 Clues: name given to slaves • intrument of torture • when new slaves arrived • confederat state general • where the civil war began • capital of the confederacy • founded in tennessee in 1866 • gathering crops from a field • first state to leave the union • how civil war went for ___ years • major battle during the civil war • person who has control over slaves • ...

American Civil War 2016-06-19

American Civil War crossword puzzle
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  1. Which state was the last to leave the Union?
  2. Who was the southern president?
  3. Which state was the last battle of the war fought in?
  4. What was the northern government called?
  5. Which state had the most battles fought in it?
  6. What was the largest city captured in the war?
  7. Which state was the first to leave the Union?
  8. What was the southern government called?
  9. Which battle started the civil war?
  10. Who was the northern president?
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  1. Which city was given as a christmas gift to Lincoln in 1864?
  2. What was an important cause of the civil war?
  3. Which battle turned back Lee's invasion of Pennsylvania?
  4. Which year is the turning point of the war?
  5. What was the name of the most famous Union ship?
  6. What was the term used by both sides for forcing people into the army?
  7. Who was the most famous Confederate general?
  8. Who won the civil war?
  9. Name of the confederate capital?
  10. Who was the main general in the Union army?

20 Clues: Who won the civil war? • Who was the southern president? • Who was the northern president? • Name of the confederate capital? • Which battle started the civil war? • What was the northern government called? • What was the southern government called? • Which year is the turning point of the war? • Who was the main general in the Union army? • ...

Civil War Crossword 2022-05-11

Civil War Crossword crossword puzzle
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  1. this battle gave Lincoln the chance to abolish slavery
  2. assassinator of Lincoln
  3. The Union's strategy to win the war
  4. Where General Sherman stated “The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war”
  5. ___War lasted four years and is Still the bloodiest war in history
  6. amendment that ended slavery
  7. Bullet with a hollow base that expands when fired
  8. Women____ were used by the North and South to spread and collect information
  9. most important battle of the Civil War
  10. South broke off from the rest of the Union and called themselves the _____ states of America
  11. 54th____ was an all-black regiment
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  1. speech dedicating a national cemetery for the soldiers on the ground where the Battle of Gettysburg had taken place
  2. Becomes the President of the Confederate States of America
  3. Becomes the President of the United States
  4. issued by Lincoln on January 1st
  5. General Sherman's war strategy
  6. First battle in the Civil War
  7. Leader of the Confederate troops
  8. Lincoln appreciated his leadership skills
  9. A fort created as extra protection for South Carolina

20 Clues: assassinator of Lincoln • amendment that ended slavery • First battle in the Civil War • General Sherman's war strategy • issued by Lincoln on January 1st • Leader of the Confederate troops • 54th____ was an all-black regiment • The Union's strategy to win the war • most important battle of the Civil War • Lincoln appreciated his leadership skills • ...

Civil War 2024-12-17

Civil War crossword puzzle
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  1. This city in Virginia was greatly damaged during the Civil War
  2. General of the Northern Virginia Army
  3. Urged Lincoln to allow former enslaved African Americans to fight
  4. This amendment protected voting rights for all citizens
  5. The North used this during Reconstruction to control the Southern States
  6. Last general of the Union
  7. President of the Union
  8. Conductor on the Underground Railroad and abolitionist
  9. This killed the most people during the Civil War
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  1. Site of Lee's surrender
  2. This amendment ended slavery in the US
  3. The period of rebuilding after the Civil War
  4. Major turning point in the Civil War (Pennsylvania)
  5. President of the Confederacy
  6. First word of the document that freed enslaved people in the Confederate States
  7. This amendment redefined citizenship in the US and protected rights

16 Clues: President of the Union • Site of Lee's surrender • Last general of the Union • President of the Confederacy • General of the Northern Virginia Army • This amendment ended slavery in the US • The period of rebuilding after the Civil War • This killed the most people during the Civil War • Major turning point in the Civil War (Pennsylvania) • ...

US History I Final Exam- Topic 7 Review 2023-06-06

US History I Final Exam- Topic 7 Review crossword puzzle
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  1. published Uncle Tom's Cabin
  2. law that made money available to states to establish universities
  3. sued his owner since he was a slave living in a free state
  4. war strategy named after a snake
  5. organized the Raid on Harpers Ferry
  6. Lee surrendered to Grant at this courthouse
  7. amendment that abolished slavery in the U.S.
  8. American photographer of the Civil War
  9. killed President Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865
  10. voters decided whether or not to allow slavery
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  1. first state that seceded from the Union
  2. war of______ is a strategy with no quick or decisive victory
  3. conductor of the Underground Railroad
  4. Confederate capital
  5. was beat with a cane by Preston Brooks
  6. place where Civil War began
  7. cities & railroads destroyed during Civil War

17 Clues: Confederate capital • published Uncle Tom's Cabin • place where Civil War began • war strategy named after a snake • organized the Raid on Harpers Ferry • conductor of the Underground Railroad • was beat with a cane by Preston Brooks • American photographer of the Civil War • first state that seceded from the Union • Lee surrendered to Grant at this courthouse • ...

Civil War Vocab 2021-10-06

Civil War Vocab crossword puzzle
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  1. large farm in the South
  2. devotion to local interests/ customs to a region of a nation
  3. Person who dies for their beliefs
  4. Another name for the South during the Civil War
  5. State A state where slavery is legal
  6. Wanted to make slavery illegal
  7. Wanted to keep slavery
  8. Farmer that works on someone else’s land for a small part of the crops
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  1. A formal/ official change
  2. War War between two people in the same country
  3. Part of army who fights while on horseback
  4. another name for the North during the Civil War
  5. To set free
  6. to leave
  7. Law requiring certain people to serve in the military
  8. Forcing people to work for no pay
  9. Place where products are made
  10. to get rid of something
  11. Slang term for Union army
  12. State A state where slavery was not legal

20 Clues: to leave • To set free • Wanted to keep slavery • large farm in the South • to get rid of something • A formal/ official change • Slang term for Union army • Place where products are made • Wanted to make slavery illegal • Person who dies for their beliefs • Forcing people to work for no pay • State A state where slavery is legal • Part of army who fights while on horseback • ...

Americas President 2023-10-03

Americas President crossword puzzle
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  1. Impeached President after Lincoln's assassination
  2. Son of a President Secretary of State
  3. Ended Reconstruction won disputed election
  4. Signed the Compromise of 1850
  5. First President of the United States
  6. Served during "Bleeding Kansas" and the Gadsden Purchase
  7. Issued the Emancipation Proclamation
  8. Known for the "Trail of Tears"
  9. Author of the Declaration of Independence
  10. Second President; Alien and Sedition Acts signer
  11. Founder of the Democratic Party
  12. Signed the Sherman Antitrust Act
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  1. Assassinated after only a few months in office
  2. Union General in the Civil War
  3. Shortest presidential term died in office
  4. Known for civil service reform
  5. First Vice President to assume the presidency
  6. Expanded U.S. territory through the Mexican-American War
  7. Only President to serve non-consecutive terms
  8. "Father of the Constitution"
  9. Issued the Monroe Doctrine
  10. General in the Mexican-American War
  11. President before the Civil War often criticized

23 Clues: Issued the Monroe Doctrine • "Father of the Constitution" • Signed the Compromise of 1850 • Union General in the Civil War • Known for civil service reform • Known for the "Trail of Tears" • Founder of the Democratic Party • Signed the Sherman Antitrust Act • General in the Mexican-American War • First President of the United States • Issued the Emancipation Proclamation • ...

cross word 2024-11-26

cross word crossword puzzle
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  1. went to war against the United States to protect slavery
  2. ended the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia's first invasion
  3. helped ensure the final defeat of slavery in the United States by aiding the Union during the American Civil War
  4. The Reconstruction Era lasted from the end of the Civil War in 1865 to 1877
  5. bring the Civil War to a swift end
  6. precipitating the capitulation of other Confederate forces
  7. in the Mexican War
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  1. reunite the country following the American Civil War
  2. declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free
  3. was the 16th president
  4. weakened the Confederacy by splitting it in half
  5. Confederate forces occupied Fort Sumter and used it to marshal a defense of Charleston Harbor
  6. lead the Union Armies to victory
  7. southern states back into the Union and preserve the nations
  8. the withdrawal of 11 slave states

15 Clues: in the Mexican War • was the 16th president • lead the Union Armies to victory • the withdrawal of 11 slave states • bring the Civil War to a swift end • weakened the Confederacy by splitting it in half • reunite the country following the American Civil War • went to war against the United States to protect slavery • ...

Unit 3 Crossword Puzzle 2024-11-01

Unit 3 Crossword Puzzle crossword puzzle
Across
  1. The states that broke away from the U.S. to form a separate government and fought to maintain it.
  2. A movement aimed at ending the practice of slavery.
  3. My very nice American History teacher
  4. Strengths & Weaknesses The side with a larger population and more resources but unfamiliar with Southern territory.
  5. Lincoln The U.S. president during the Civil War who took significant steps toward ending slavery.
  6. Amendment Made anyone born in the United States a citizen and guaranteed equal protection under the law.
  7. A period focused on rebuilding the Southern states and integrating formerly enslaved people into American society after the Civil War.
  8. Amendment Granted voting rights regardless of race or previous condition of servitude.
  9. Bureau An organization established to provide aid, education, and support to newly freed individuals and impoverished Southerners.
Down
  1. Strengths & Weaknesses The side with skilled military leaders and home territory advantage but fewer resources.
  2. War A major conflict in the United States between opposing regions over issues like states' rights and slavery.
  3. The states that fought to keep the United States united during the Civil War.
  4. At Jordan we ___________
  5. The freeing of individuals from enslavement, often linked to policies during the Civil War era.
  6. Amendment Ended slavery in the United States, making it illegal nationwide.
  7. Douglass An escaped enslaved person who became a powerful speaker and writer advocating for the end of slavery.
  8. The act of formally withdrawing from a political or organizational union.
  9. Sumter The location where conflict first erupted, marking the start of the Civil War.
  10. Scott A man who challenged his enslavement in court, resulting in a ruling that denied citizenship to Black people.

19 Clues: At Jordan we ___________ • My very nice American History teacher • A movement aimed at ending the practice of slavery. • The act of formally withdrawing from a political or organizational union. • Amendment Ended slavery in the United States, making it illegal nationwide. • The states that fought to keep the United States united during the Civil War. • ...

Civil War Review 2019-01-08

Civil War Review crossword puzzle
Across
  1. act that prohibited slavery north of the 36,30 line
  2. "The North" or USA during the Civil War
  3. Confederate general who recaptured Galveston
  4. government formed in 1861 by 11 southern states
  5. commander of the Bayou City steamer at Galveston battle
  6. slave who sued US government for his freedom
  7. Union strategy to defeat the South
  8. economy supported by cash crops and slaves
  9. Texas governor who enforced Conscription Act
Down
  1. location of Lee's surrender
  2. battle in which Union cut Confederacy in two
  3. Confederate general who surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant
  4. to withdraw from a larger unit one belongs to
  5. bloodiest day in American military history
  6. act that allowed territories to vote on slavery issue
  7. a person who supported the union cause during the war
  8. first battle of the Civil War
  9. last battle of the Civil War
  10. first state to secede
  11. Lincoln's assassin

20 Clues: Lincoln's assassin • first state to secede • location of Lee's surrender • last battle of the Civil War • first battle of the Civil War • Union strategy to defeat the South • "The North" or USA during the Civil War • bloodiest day in American military history • economy supported by cash crops and slaves • battle in which Union cut Confederacy in two • ...

American Civil War 2023-02-23

American Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. The person who won the Election of 1860
  2. States that didn't leave the Union that still allowed slavery
  3. This march was from Atlanta to Savannah
  4. First battle of the American Civil War
  5. discrimination against a group of people because of there ethnicity or race
  6. To leave
  7. it declared that all people held as slaves shall be free
  8. The practice of forced labor and restricted freedom
  9. The South needed ________ support
Down
  1. Southern states
  2. blocking a place so you can't import or export goods
  3. Capital of the Union
  4. Was the first state to secede
  5. Northern states
  6. This plan created a naval blockade around the confederacy, split the south in two along the Mississippi River, and to capture the Capital of Richmond, Virgina
  7. The Union had a ___________ population
  8. The South planned on fighting a __________ war
  9. Final battle of the Civil War
  10. Capital of the Confederacy
  11. Largest battle in the Civil War

20 Clues: To leave • Southern states • Northern states • Capital of the Union • Capital of the Confederacy • Was the first state to secede • Final battle of the Civil War • Largest battle in the Civil War • The South needed ________ support • The Union had a ___________ population • First battle of the American Civil War • The person who won the Election of 1860 • ...

Civil War Crossword 2017-03-06

Civil War Crossword crossword puzzle
Across
  1. A new, improved version of the musket that had increased accuracy and could fire Minie Ball bullets up to 1,000 feet, but they took a long time to load.
  2. A code consisting of dots and dashes to represent characters in the alphabet.
  3. A lethal disease occurring in improperly tended wounds, was one of the worst killers in the Civil War.
  4. Large farms that specialized in one crop and utilized slavery to maintain and run these, the south had an abundance of them.
  5. One of the volunteer nurses in the Civil War, she was a pioneer in the medical field and later founded the American Red Cross.
  6. The president at the time the Confederate states were seceding and unrest was stirring between the north and south. Entered office in 1861 as the 16th president.
  7. An art form that brought publicity to the tragedies of the civil war when they were published in newspapers.
  8. The name of the first entirely African-American regiments in the Civil War, quickly becoming one of the most famous ones.
  9. A place in Pennsylvania that held an especially costly battle and afterward, the first National Cememtary. Lincoln gave his famous address here.
  10. The chemical element that was discovered to fight off and prevent gangrene in amputation wounds.
  11. The group consisting of South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas. They fought for Slavery in the Civil War.
  12. The network of transportation that stretched across the united states, the Union owned 21,000 miles, while the Confederation only owned 9,000 miles.
  13. The violent conflict between confederate and union states, claimed the lives of at least 618,000 soldiers.
  14. A common medical practice during the civil war that was used to stop infection spreading through the body from a wound by removing the inflicted limb.
Down
  1. The act of a group separating from a larger organization.
  2. The commander in chief of the Union Army.
  3. A state of war in which there are little to no restrictions on weapons, targets, and the Laws of War aren't followed.
  4. The commander in chief of the Confederate Army.
  5. An invention of the War that allowed information to travel instantaneously by using dots and dashes to represent letters.
  6. Made slavery illegal in the southern states, passed in 1863.
  7. The ending of slavery, the union believed in this while the south were terrified that this would happen.
  8. Being able to manufacture large quantities of a product, the north had an advantage because their factories allowed them to do this.
  9. A lead bullet that was used in the Civil War, was considered an innovation back when it was invented in 1848.
  10. The group of free states that fought to abolish slavery in the Civil War, their primary color was blue.

24 Clues: The commander in chief of the Union Army. • The commander in chief of the Confederate Army. • The act of a group separating from a larger organization. • Made slavery illegal in the southern states, passed in 1863. • A code consisting of dots and dashes to represent characters in the alphabet. • ...

Chapter 20 and 21 2021-12-06

Chapter 20 and 21 crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Person who assassinated lincoln
  2. First major battle of the civil war
  3. a major defeat for the union army
  4. amendment to abolish slavery
  5. creates a national currency backed by governmental securities
  6. where the first shots of the civil war were taken.
  7. first woman inducted into the army
  8. 6th chief justice of the u.s
  9. president of the confederate states from 1861 to 1865
  10. first woman to receive a medical degree
  11. Two warships that were designed to help the Confederate ports.
  12. Son of pres John Quincy Adams
  13. import tariff in the united states during the administration of pres James Buchanan
  14. speech Abraham Lincoln gave at the national cemetery in Gettysburg
  15. created to handle issues surrounding the civil war.
Down
  1. diplomatic incident in 1861 during the civil war that threatened a war between the united states and the United kingdom.
  2. Nurse who founded the american red cross
  3. order by u.s pres abe lincoln to free slaves in 10 states
  4. commander of the confederate states army
  5. got defeated at the second battle of bull run
  6. peace democrats
  7. relief agency to support sick and wounded soldiers
  8. military campaign by a general of the union army
  9. gave people public land if they cared for it and paid a small registration fee
  10. emergency paper currency
  11. gave the union the control of the Mississippi
  12. killed any chance of Europe intervening
  13. Riots because of the anger of a federal draft law during the civil war.
  14. 18th pres of the united states
  15. Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, and West Virginia

30 Clues: peace democrats • emergency paper currency • amendment to abolish slavery • 6th chief justice of the u.s • Son of pres John Quincy Adams • 18th pres of the united states • Person who assassinated lincoln • a major defeat for the union army • first woman inducted into the army • First major battle of the civil war • killed any chance of Europe intervening • ...

Unit 3 1800-1877 2025-12-08

Unit 3 1800-1877 crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Union general whose victories helped end the war; later became president
  2. Movement aimed at ending slavery in the US
  3. Union naval strategy to cut off Confederate trade
  4. 1831 uprising that made Southern lawmakers nervous
  5. 1803 Double the US size
  6. Included the Fugitive Slave Act
  7. President of the Confederate States during the Civil War
  8. Rebuilding and reintegration after the Civil War
  9. Strategy of destroying enemy resources to weaken morale
  10. Law granting citizenship and equal protection under the Constitution
  11. Turning-point battle fought in Pennsylvania
  12. Beats out Pickney in 1808 election
  13. Lincolns vice president; became president during Reconstruction
  14. Government agency that assisted formerly enslaved people
  15. Labor system that replaced slavery in much of the South
  16. Law that abolished slavery in the US
Down
  1. Northerners who moved South during Reconstruction
  2. Union general known for his "March to the Sea"
  3. Lincolns 1863 order freeing enslaved people in confederate states
  4. Helped move troops and resources more faster than before
  5. New tools and machines that changed production and warfare
  6. Conflict that added California to the U.S. map
  7. Abolitionist leader who fought for African American rights
  8. Where the first shots of the Civil War were fired
  9. Former enslaved woman who led escapes through the Underground Railroad
  10. Confederate general known for his leadership in the Eastern Theater
  11. Confederate general known for standing firm at Bull Run
  12. The act of Southern states leaving the Union
  13. President of the U.S. during the Civil War
  14. Allowed rapid communication during the Civil War

30 Clues: 1803 Double the US size • Included the Fugitive Slave Act • Beats out Pickney in 1808 election • Law that abolished slavery in the US • Movement aimed at ending slavery in the US • President of the U.S. during the Civil War • Turning-point battle fought in Pennsylvania • The act of Southern states leaving the Union • Union general known for his "March to the Sea" • ...

AMERICA - land of the free 2025-10-01

AMERICA - land of the free crossword puzzle
Across
  1. first successful British colony
  2. Plains Indian tribe
  3. the number of colonies established by the British
  4. discoverer of America (2 words)
  5. most immigrants to USA now are this ethnicity
  6. failed first colony of Britain
  7. what England called America (2 words)
  8. Sioux Indians lived in these structures
  9. harvest festival to celebrate blessings
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  1. protest against British taxes (3 words)
  2. USA fought Britain to gain this
  3. first president of USA (2 words)
  4. war between Northern and Southern states
  5. president that abolished slavery
  6. Southern states in civil war
  7. Northern states in civil war
  8. Africans working on Southern plantations
  9. statue gifted by France expressing this value

18 Clues: Plains Indian tribe • Southern states in civil war • Northern states in civil war • failed first colony of Britain • USA fought Britain to gain this • first successful British colony • discoverer of America (2 words) • first president of USA (2 words) • president that abolished slavery • what England called America (2 words) • protest against British taxes (3 words) • ...

civil war 2022-03-07

civil war crossword puzzle
Across
  1. who won the civil war
  2. the bloodiest battle of the civil war
  3. who assassinated lincon
  4. angle of the battle field
  5. nickname for anderew jackson
  6. who was the 17th president
  7. how many years did the civi war last
Down
  1. first battle of the civi war
  2. the year civil war started
  3. the month the civil war ended
  4. said he wont spread slavery

11 Clues: who won the civil war • who assassinated lincon • angle of the battle field • the year civil war started • who was the 17th president • said he wont spread slavery • first battle of the civi war • nickname for anderew jackson • the month the civil war ended • how many years did the civi war last • the bloodiest battle of the civil war

The Civil War 2013-04-11

The Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. What Confederate war prison is infamous for poor conditions?
  2. This happened to many southern currencies throughout the Civil War.
  3. He succeeded Abraham Lincoln as President.
  4. What was the name of the fort the confederates attacked on April 12, 1863 to start the Civil War?
  5. Confederate woman famous for keeping a diary describing war events.
  6. What was the name of the three part plan the Union devised to conquer the South?
  7. The Union had many more ________ than the Confederacy.
  8. What was the name of people in the North who advocated peace with the South?
  9. Sherman Appointed as commander by Ulysses S. Grant.
  10. Who was the General of the Army of the Potomac?
  11. Issued by President Lincoln on January 1, 1863, this military action freed any slaves from states in rebellion against the United States.
  12. President Lincoln suspended this writ in Maryland that required authorities to bring a person held in jail before a court to determine why he was being held.
  13. Which amendment outlawed slavery?
  14. A famous General from the Civil War received what nickname during the battle of Bull Run?
  15. who wanted to destroy the political power of former slaveholders.
  16. Some people hired a __________ to fill their draft position.
  17. Place where surrender arrangements for the Civil War were made.
  18. Creek beside which the bloodiest single day battle of the Civil War took place.
  19. Lincoln was watching this comedy when he was shot.
  20. Captain of the warship San Jacinto.
  21. In 1863, Congress enacted the tax law that authorized the nation’s first __________.
  22. At what war changing battle did the Confederates surprise and kill many of the Union Army while they were still in bed?
  23. The Confederacy did not make _______ fight because then it would show that they are equal.
  24. Lincoln’s assassinator.
  25. Who was the general that was a graduate from West Point and captured Forts Henry and Donelson for the North?
  26. The place at which Confederate troops killed over 200 helpless blacks and whites.
Down
  1. Clara Barton helped found this.
  2. Nine southern states seceded from the Union after whose election?
  3. This person took command of Joseph E. Johnston’s army after he was wounded.
  4. In the Election of 1865, President Lincoln thought he was going to be beaten by George McCellan what other candidate?
  5. First state to secede.
  6. Fort Sumter’s commander.
  7. Period in which the United States began to rebuild after the Civil War.
  8. Act passed in 1863 that set up a system of federally chartered banks.
  9. In the Civil War, _________ were used instead of muskets.
  10. Which state was formed when Virginia seceded from the Union?
  11. This was set up to improve hygienic conditions fo army camps and to recruit and train nurses.
  12. President of the Confederacy.
  13. Name of the North’s ironclad ship.
  14. What city was the last Mississippi port taken from the South by General Grant?
  15. What battle is considered the turning point of the Civil War?
  16. At what battle did General Lee force General Joseph Hooker to retreat?
  17. President Lincoln’s famous two minute speech following one of the most notorious battles of the Civil War.
  18. A draft that would force certain members of a population to service in the army.
  19. Who commanded a fleet of 40 ships and captured New Orleans on April 24, 1862?
  20. The first actual battle of the Civil War which the Confederates won was called what?
  21. Name of the South’s ironclad ship.
  22. Who was the diplomat that tried to gain British support in 1861?
  23. The Union had much more ________ than the Confederacy.
  24. What famous woman from the Union cared for the sick and wounded at the front lines of the war?

50 Clues: First state to secede. • Lincoln’s assassinator. • Fort Sumter’s commander. • President of the Confederacy. • Clara Barton helped found this. • Which amendment outlawed slavery? • Name of the North’s ironclad ship. • Name of the South’s ironclad ship. • Captain of the warship San Jacinto. • He succeeded Abraham Lincoln as President. • ...

wars 2022-02-15

wars crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Civil War, 1917–1922.
  2. in Afghanistan, 2001–2014
  3. War, 1990–1991
  4. War, 1955–1975
  5. War, 2003–2011
  6. Emergency, 1948–1960.
  7. War of Independence, 1919–1921.
  8. World War, 1939–1945.
  9. of India, 1947.
  10. Crisis, 1956
  11. Emergency, 1952–1960
  12. Troubles, 1968–1998
Down
  1. Incident, 1949.
  2. War, 1982
  3. Confrontation, 1963–1966
  4. Revolt, 1962–1963
  5. Emergency, 1963–1967
  6. Emergency, 1955–1959
  7. War, 1950–1953.
  8. World War, 1914–1918.

20 Clues: War, 1982 • Crisis, 1956 • War, 1990–1991 • War, 1955–1975 • War, 2003–2011 • Incident, 1949. • War, 1950–1953. • of India, 1947. • Revolt, 1962–1963 • Troubles, 1968–1998 • Emergency, 1963–1967 • Emergency, 1955–1959 • Emergency, 1952–1960 • Civil War, 1917–1922. • Emergency, 1948–1960. • World War, 1939–1945. • World War, 1914–1918. • Confrontation, 1963–1966 • in Afghanistan, 2001–2014 • ...

General History 2024-05-16

General History crossword puzzle
Across
  1. HE CREATED THE LIGHTWEIGHT STEEL PLOW
  2. TO WITHDRAW, OR LEAVE
  3. RELIGIOUS GROUP THAT SETTLED IN UTAH
  4. LEADER OF THE CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMER.
  5. LED UNION ARMY IN ITS "MARCH TO THE SEA"
  6. BLOODIEST ONE-DAY BATTLE OF THE CIVIL WAR
  7. LAND WON FROM MEXICO IN MEXICAN-AMER. WAR
  8. REFORMED PRISON/MENTAL HEALTH SYSTEM IN MID-1800'S
  9. RIVER THAT SEPARATED FREE STATES AND SLAVE STATES
  10. EXPLORED LA TERRITORY FOR PRES. JEFFERSON
  11. DESTROYING EVERYTHING USEFUL TO THE ENEMY
  12. SLAVE THAT SUED FOR HIS FREEDOM
  13. ACCEPTED LEE'S SURRENDER AT APPOMATTOX COURTHOUSE
  14. HE CREATED THE TELEGRAPH
  15. HE HELPED HENRY CLAY WITH THE COMPROMISE OF 1850
  16. MOST FAMOUS CONDUCTOR OF THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD
  17. A BOAT COVERED IN IRON PLATES
  18. CIVIL WAR BATTLE FOUGHT IN PA
  19. TERRITORY ALLOWED TO VOTE ON SLAVERY
Down
  1. YEARLY GATHERING OF MOUNTAIN MEN
  2. SENATOR ATTACKED BY REP. PRESTON BROOKS
  3. HE CREATED THE COTTON GIN
  4. A PERSON WHO FLEES OR TRIES TO ESCAPE
  5. 1ST ALL-BLACK REGIMENT WAS FROM THIS STATE
  6. HE CAME UP WITH THE MISSOURI COMPROMISE
  7. UNION PLAN TO WIN THE CIVIL WAR
  8. TO FREE
  9. PERSON WHO FOUGHT TO END SLAVERY
  10. HE WROTE THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
  11. HE CREATED THE KS-NE ACT
  12. SLAVE STATE THAT DID NOT SECEDE
  13. LEADER OF THE CONFEDERATE ARMY
  14. POTUS DURING THE CIVIL WAR
  15. ABOLITIONIST; NEWSPAPER WAS THE LIBERATOR
  16. CAPTURED AN ARSENAL, HOPING TO LEAD A SLAVE REVOLT
  17. HE LED THE MORMONS TO UTAH
  18. 1ST BATTLE OF THE CIVIL WAR
  19. SHE WROTE UNCLE TOM'S CABIN

38 Clues: TO FREE • TO WITHDRAW, OR LEAVE • HE CREATED THE KS-NE ACT • HE CREATED THE TELEGRAPH • HE CREATED THE COTTON GIN • POTUS DURING THE CIVIL WAR • HE LED THE MORMONS TO UTAH • 1ST BATTLE OF THE CIVIL WAR • SHE WROTE UNCLE TOM'S CABIN • A BOAT COVERED IN IRON PLATES • CIVIL WAR BATTLE FOUGHT IN PA • LEADER OF THE CONFEDERATE ARMY • UNION PLAN TO WIN THE CIVIL WAR • ...

Unit 5 & 6 Vocabulary 2014-02-28

Unit 5 & 6 Vocabulary crossword puzzle
Across
  1. restriction of interest to a narrow sphere; undue concern with local interests or petty distinctions at the expense of general well-being
  2. the first major battle in the American Civil War to take place on Union soil
  3. a small town in southern Pennsylvania; site of a national cemetery
  4. Sovereignty a doctrine in political theory that government is created by and subject to the will of the peopl
  5. Proviso bold attempt by opponents of slavery to prevent its introduction in the territories purchased from Mexico following the Mexican War
  6. Movement movement to end slavery, whether formal or informal
  7. Douglas united States abolitionist who escaped from slavery and became an influential writer and lecturer in the North
  8. "Stonewall" Jackson was a Confederate general during the American Civil War, and one of the best-known Confederate commanders after General Robert E. Lee
Down
  1. Tubman United States abolitionist born a slave on a plantation in Maryland and became a famous conductor on the Underground Railroad leading other slaves to freedom in the North
  2. Plan an outline strategy for subduing the seceding states in the American Civil War
  3. Sisters were 19th-century Southern American Quakers, educators and writers who were early advocates of abolitionism and women's rights
  4. T. Sherman an American soldier, businessman, educator and author. He served as a General in the Union Army during the American Civil War, for which he received recognition for his outstanding command of military strategy
  5. Proclamation an executive order issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, as a war measure during the American Civil War, to all segments of the Executive branch of the United State
  6. Crisis United States government wanting to enforce tariffs and South Carolina’s authority to nullify such laws
  7. S. Grant was the 18th President of the United States following his successful role as a general in the second half of the Civil War
  8. Douglas United States politician who proposed that individual territories be allowed to decide whether they would have slavery; he engaged in a famous series of debates with Abraham Lincoln
  9. McClellan was an American medical doctor and a grandson of George McClellan, also a doctor
  10. occurring or existing before a particular war, esp. the American Civil War
  11. Browns Raid an attempt by the white abolitionist John Brown to start an armed slave revolt in 1859 by seizing a United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia
  12. Slave Law The fugitive slave laws were laws passed by the United States Congress in 1793 and 1850 to provide for the return of slaves who escaped from one state into another state or territory
  13. E. Lee American general who led the Confederate Armies in the American Civil War
  14. Scott vs. Sanford a black slave whose suit for freedom (1857) was denied by the U.S. Supreme Court on the grounds that a slave was not a citizen and therefore could not sue in a federal court

22 Clues: Movement movement to end slavery, whether formal or informal • a small town in southern Pennsylvania; site of a national cemetery • occurring or existing before a particular war, esp. the American Civil War • the first major battle in the American Civil War to take place on Union soil • ...

Civil War 2025-04-14

Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. S. Grant- Commander of the Union Army.
  2. Sumter- The site of the first shots of the Civil War.
  3. E. Lee- Commander of the Confederate Army
  4. A military tactic used by the Union to restrict trade with the Confederacy.
  5. A major crop of the South that was essential to its economy.
  6. Lincoln- President of the United States during the Civil War
  7. Rights- A belief that states should have the power to make their own decisions, particularly concerning slavery.
  8. Railroad- A network of secret routes and safe houses used by enslaved people to escape to freedom.
Down
  1. The site of a major Union victory and a turning point in the war.
  2. The name for the Northern states during the Civil War
  3. The institution that was a primary cause of the Civil War.
  4. Proclamation- An order issued by President Lincoln that freed slaves in Confederate-controlled areas.
  5. Amendment- The constitutional amendment that abolished slavery throughout the United States.
  6. The name for the Southern states that seceded from the Union
  7. Davis- President of the Confederacy
  8. Court House- The site where Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union General Ulysses S. Grant, effectively ending the Civil War.
  9. To withdraw from an organization, in this case, the Union.

17 Clues: Davis- President of the Confederacy • S. Grant- Commander of the Union Army. • E. Lee- Commander of the Confederate Army • The name for the Northern states during the Civil War • Sumter- The site of the first shots of the Civil War. • The institution that was a primary cause of the Civil War. • To withdraw from an organization, in this case, the Union. • ...

House of Dragon 2025-07-16

House of Dragon crossword puzzle
Across
  1. The assembly where lords voted to crown King Viserys I’s successor
  2. The kingdom where Rhaenyra was crowned queen in opposition to her half-brother
  3. Religious figures whose teachings and allegiances influenced the political intrigues
  4. A mysterious spy and lover of Daemon, known as the “White Worm”
  5. King of the Seven Kingdoms whose death ignited the Dance of the Dragons
  6. Eldest son of Rhaenyra, leader of the dragonriders known as the Princes of the Sun
  7. The dragonlord dynasty whose members fought a devastating civil war
  8. Charismatic and ruthless prince known for riding the dragon Caraxes and challenging his rivals
  9. The name for the brutal Targaryen civil war also called the “War of the Two Queens”
Down
  1. Daemon Targaryen’s fierce dragon, nicknamed the Blood Wyrm
  2. Queen and leader of the “Greens,” opposed Rhaenyra’s claim to the throne
  3. Noble family that backed the Greens and wielded great influence in King’s Landing
  4. Claimant to the Iron Throne whose faction was called the “Blacks” during the Targaryen civil war
  5. The strategic archipelago where key battles of the civil war took place
  6. Lord of the Stepstones who played a pivotal role in the civil war battles
  7. Derogatory nickname used by Rhaenyra’s supporters to insult Alicent Hightower
  8. Fiery dragon bonded to Prince Jacaerys, known for his red and gold scales

17 Clues: Daemon Targaryen’s fierce dragon, nicknamed the Blood Wyrm • A mysterious spy and lover of Daemon, known as the “White Worm” • The assembly where lords voted to crown King Viserys I’s successor • The dragonlord dynasty whose members fought a devastating civil war • The strategic archipelago where key battles of the civil war took place • ...

Civil War Review 2019-01-08

Civil War Review crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Confederate general who surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant
  2. a person who supported the union cause during the war
  3. government formed in 1861 by 11 southern states
  4. Union strategy to defeat the South
  5. Lincoln's assassin
  6. location of Lee's surrender
  7. to withdraw from a larger unit one belongs to
  8. battle in which Union cut Confederacy in two
Down
  1. first battle of the Civil War
  2. bloodiest day in American military history
  3. focus on the interests of one's region
  4. slave who sued US government for his freedom
  5. Confederate general who recaptured Galveston
  6. act that prohibited slavery north of the 36,30 line
  7. economy supported by cash crops and slaves
  8. last battle of the Civil War
  9. Texas governor who enforced Conscription Act
  10. act that allowed territories to vote on slavery issue
  11. first state to secede
  12. "The North" or USA during the Civil War
  13. commander of the Bayou City steamer at Galveston battle

21 Clues: Lincoln's assassin • first state to secede • location of Lee's surrender • last battle of the Civil War • first battle of the Civil War • Union strategy to defeat the South • focus on the interests of one's region • "The North" or USA during the Civil War • bloodiest day in American military history • economy supported by cash crops and slaves • ...

Chapter 11. 2023-05-03

Chapter 11. crossword puzzle
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  1. northern democratic group that wanted peace with confederacy
  2. one of the medicines in the civil war
  3. when wealthy men can hire someone to take their place in the draft
  4. church where troops gathered
  5. took place from 1861-1865
  6. the founder of the red cross
  7. he stood his ground during the bull run
  8. first fight of the civil war
  9. single day battle with almost 23,00o casualties
  10. another name for CSA soldiers
  11. Confederate general
  12. bonus that was received when joining a union
  13. first bloodshed of the civil war
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  1. organized the army of the Potomac
  2. a type of ammo that caused many injuries
  3. president of the rebels
  4. Militar commander for union
  5. created the anaconda plan
  6. the amendmant that abolished slavery
  7. person who fought for african americans to be able to fight in war
  8. what lincoln suspended

21 Clues: Confederate general • what lincoln suspended • president of the rebels • took place from 1861-1865 • created the anaconda plan • Militar commander for union • church where troops gathered • the founder of the red cross • first fight of the civil war • another name for CSA soldiers • first bloodshed of the civil war • organized the army of the Potomac • ...

Impacts of the Civil War 2020-12-16

Impacts of the Civil War crossword puzzle
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  1. A campaign made by the North's General Sherman in order to capture Atlanta.
  2. A blockade made by the Union to stop the southern states from trading with foreign countries.
  3. One of the reasons for the Civil War. To leave.
  4. This battle's objective was to capture the city of Chattanooga. Known as the 2nd bloodiest battle of the Civil War.
  5. Invetion that help for communication using morse code.
  6. Means for transportation back then.
  7. One of the reasons for the Civil War. To own another human.
  8. One of the three reasons for the Civil War. States have the right to control their own state.
  9. General of the confederacy. Led the Battle of Gettysburg.
  10. president at the time of the civil war and issued the emancipation proclamation.
  11. A plan made by the Union to hurt the south.
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  1. The development of industries in a country or region on a wide scale.
  2. Major crop grown in the south.
  3. The battle that ultimately lost the war for the confederacy. Lasted July 1 - July 3, 1863.
  4. General Sherman marched from Atlanta to Savannah and destroy anything believed would give the confederacy an advantage against them.
  5. Prison that housed thousands of Northern soldiers and was notorious for mistreating prisoners and being overcrowded.
  6. An ultimatum made by President Lincoln towards the "rebellious" states.
  7. Southern a fort demolished via cannon by the Union. It located on Tybee Island.
  8. General of Union Army, led a march to siege Savannah.
  9. The succeeding states' nation army.
  10. The northern states' army.

21 Clues: The northern states' army. • Major crop grown in the south. • Means for transportation back then. • The succeeding states' nation army. • A plan made by the Union to hurt the south. • One of the reasons for the Civil War. To leave. • General of Union Army, led a march to siege Savannah. • Invetion that help for communication using morse code. • ...

Unit 5 & 6 Vocabulary 2014-02-28

Unit 5 & 6 Vocabulary crossword puzzle
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  1. Crisis United States government wanting to enforce tariffs and South Carolina’s authority to nullify such laws
  2. McClellan was an American medical doctor and a grandson of George McClellan, also a doctor
  3. Movement movement to end slavery, whether formal or informal
  4. Proclamation an executive order issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, as a war measure during the American Civil War, to all segments of the Executive branch of the United State
  5. a small town in southern Pennsylvania; site of a national cemetery
  6. Douglas united States abolitionist who escaped from slavery and became an influential writer and lecturer in the North
  7. Sovereignty a doctrine in political theory that government is created by and subject to the will of the peopl
  8. "Stonewall" Jackson was a Confederate general during the American Civil War, and one of the best-known Confederate commanders after General Robert E. Lee
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  1. the first major battle in the American Civil War to take place on Union soil
  2. Proviso bold attempt by opponents of slavery to prevent its introduction in the territories purchased from Mexico following the Mexican War
  3. T. Sherman an American soldier, businessman, educator and author. He served as a General in the Union Army during the American Civil War, for which he received recognition for his outstanding command of military strategy
  4. restriction of interest to a narrow sphere; undue concern with local interests or petty distinctions at the expense of general well-being
  5. Plan an outline strategy for subduing the seceding states in the American Civil War
  6. Douglas United States politician who proposed that individual territories be allowed to decide whether they would have slavery; he engaged in a famous series of debates with Abraham Lincoln
  7. Slave Law The fugitive slave laws were laws passed by the United States Congress in 1793 and 1850 to provide for the return of slaves who escaped from one state into another state or territory
  8. Tubman United States abolitionist born a slave on a plantation in Maryland and became a famous conductor on the Underground Railroad leading other slaves to freedom in the North
  9. S. Grant was the 18th President of the United States following his successful role as a general in the second half of the Civil War
  10. Browns Raid an attempt by the white abolitionist John Brown to start an armed slave revolt in 1859 by seizing a United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia
  11. Scott vs. Sanford a black slave whose suit for freedom (1857) was denied by the U.S. Supreme Court on the grounds that a slave was not a citizen and therefore could not sue in a federal court
  12. occurring or existing before a particular war, esp. the American Civil War
  13. Sisters were 19th-century Southern American Quakers, educators and writers who were early advocates of abolitionism and women's rights
  14. E. Lee American general who led the Confederate Armies in the American Civil War

22 Clues: Movement movement to end slavery, whether formal or informal • a small town in southern Pennsylvania; site of a national cemetery • occurring or existing before a particular war, esp. the American Civil War • the first major battle in the American Civil War to take place on Union soil • ...

Civil War Review 2022-03-06

Civil War Review crossword puzzle
Across
  1. What is a tax on an imported good from another country?
  2. What group used violence to intimidate blacks?
  3. Who was elected president of the United States in 1860?
  4. Who was the Georgia governor that wrote a letter after Lincoln’s election?
  5. Who was the president of the Confederacy?
  6. Which region wanted the West’s land to be sold cheaply and used for agriculture?
  7. What compromise led to Missouri’s admittance into the Union as a slave state and Maine as a free state?
  8. Where did the Civil War begin?
  9. What were the elite landholders of Georgia society called?
  10. What was there a shortage of in Georgia after the Civil War?
  11. What battle was pretty much the last major stand of the Confederacy?
  12. Who invented the cotton gin?
  13. What was the concept of putting the interest of your region over national interests?
  14. What is a group of independent states with a weak central government?
  15. What were northerners who came South after the Civil War called?
  16. What political party did almost all blacks vote for?
  17. What compromise led to California’s admittance into the Union as a free state and the Fugitive Slave Act?
  18. What is the belief that a state could declare a law “null and void?”
  19. Who regained power in Georgia after Reconstruction?
  20. What city was given to Abraham Lincoln as a "Christmas gift?"
  21. What was set up to help blacks to recover in the south?
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  1. What amendment to the Constitution promised “equal protection?”
  2. What were the white southerners that worked with those who came from the North called?
  3. What were white, middle-class farmers in Georgia called?
  4. Which region was in favor of putting tariffs on Great Britain?
  5. Who “marched to the sea” in Georgia and destroyed everything along the way?
  6. Who was the Union general of the Atlanta Campaign?
  7. What did farmers grow instead of cotton during the Civil War?
  8. What state was the first to secede?
  9. What does antebellum mean?
  10. What was the protestant religious movement in the early 1800s called?
  11. What did planters sell after the war to raise cash?
  12. What was Georgia’s economy based on before the Civil War?
  13. What political party was anti-slavery?
  14. Who was the vice president of the Confederacy?
  15. What was Georgia’s nickname before the Civil War?
  16. What battle was the second deadliest battle in the Civil War?

37 Clues: What does antebellum mean? • Who invented the cotton gin? • Where did the Civil War begin? • What state was the first to secede? • What political party was anti-slavery? • Who was the president of the Confederacy? • What group used violence to intimidate blacks? • Who was the vice president of the Confederacy? • What was Georgia’s nickname before the Civil War? • ...

Unit 7 Vocabulary 2021-02-01

Unit 7 Vocabulary crossword puzzle
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  1. the forced enrollment of people into military service.
  2. A person who supported the North during the Civil War
  3. A person who supported the South during the Civil War
  4. The 14th Amendment made all freed slaves _____.
  5. A war between political factions or regions within the same country.
  6. the date celebrated as the anniversary of Emancipation Day for enslaved people in Texas
  7. former slave
  8. Laws limiting the rights of Afriance Americans passed by Southern governments after the Civil War
  9. The name given to are that was not actively invloved in the t fighting but was still vital to it.
  10. People who take the law into their own hands.
  11. A change made to the Constitution
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  1. The closing of a port by positioning ships to keep people or supplies from moving in or out.
  2. A temporary type of government.
  3. The 13th Amendment ended this practice in the United States.
  4. The 15th Amendment gave all male citizen the right to______.
  5. The federal government's plan to restore the South to the Union after the Civil War.
  6. a local law
  7. To cancel

18 Clues: To cancel • a local law • former slave • A temporary type of government. • A change made to the Constitution • People who take the law into their own hands. • The 14th Amendment made all freed slaves _____. • A person who supported the North during the Civil War • A person who supported the South during the Civil War • the forced enrollment of people into military service. • ...

Causes and Battles of the Civil War 2024-12-12

Causes and Battles of the Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. The Southern states that seceded from the Union.
  2. The day enslaved people in Texas learned they were free
  3. Commander of the Union Army by the end of the war.
  4. The Northern states during the Civil War.
  5. The final battle of the Civil War in May 1865, occurring after the war had officially ended, with Confederate forces defeating the Union.
  6. The belief that states should make their own decisions on issues like slavery.
  7. Act of leaving the Union to form a new nation.
  8. 1865
  9. Commander of the Confederate Army.
  10. Union forces captured this vital port in October 1862, cutting off Confederate supplies.
  11. 1861
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  1. President of the Confederate States during the Civil War.
  2. Pass A Confederate victory in 1863 where a small group of soldiers stopped Union gunboats trying to invade Texas.
  3. A society or economy focused on farming and agriculture (Southern Economy).
  4. President Lincoln issued this document freeing enslaved people in Confederate states
  5. President of the United States during thewas Civil War who issued the Emancipation Proclamation.
  6. Confederate forces reclaimed the port on January 1, 1863, using "cottonclad" ships in a surprise attack.
  7. A society or economy focused on manufacturing and factories

18 Clues: 1865 • 1861 • Commander of the Confederate Army. • The Northern states during the Civil War. • Act of leaving the Union to form a new nation. • The Southern states that seceded from the Union. • Commander of the Union Army by the end of the war. • The day enslaved people in Texas learned they were free • President of the Confederate States during the Civil War. • ...

Civil War Crossword Puzzle (please use underscores for spaces) 2024-04-24

Civil War Crossword Puzzle (please use underscores for spaces) crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Loyalty to a region of a country instead of its entirety
  2. The Confederate general that was appointed as the overall general over the Confederacy's army
  3. Assassinated Abraham Lincoln
  4. States Loyal to the U.S. when the Confederacy was formed
  5. Slavery resistance movement that helped slaves escape through a network of members
  6. A dense and inexpensive biscuit used for military rations during the Civil War
  7. A battle fought between the Confederacy and Union in Pennsylvania that is considered the turning point in the civil war
  8. The number one cause of death for soldiers in the Civil War
Down
  1. The president that served as the head of the Union during the Civil War, was assassinated by John Booth
  2. The Union general that is credited to the victory of the Union
  3. A withdrawal from an organization
  4. States that seceded from the U.S. during the Civil War and formed their own government
  5. Slave states that didn't secede from the Union
  6. Loyalty to a whole country
  7. A war strategy used by the Union to split the Confederacy by blockading the Mississippi River
  8. A condition in which a human owns another human

16 Clues: Loyalty to a whole country • Assassinated Abraham Lincoln • A withdrawal from an organization • Slave states that didn't secede from the Union • A condition in which a human owns another human • Loyalty to a region of a country instead of its entirety • States Loyal to the U.S. when the Confederacy was formed • ...

Civil War Vocab 2021-10-06

Civil War Vocab crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Farmer that works on someone else’s land for a small part of the crops
  2. Place where products are made
  3. to leave
  4. A formal/ official change
  5. to get rid of something
  6. Person who dies for their beliefs
  7. To set free
  8. War War between two people in the same country
  9. Wanted to keep slavery
  10. Law requiring certain people to serve in the military
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  1. Another name for the South during the Civil War
  2. large farm in the South
  3. A state where slavery was not legal
  4. State A state where slavery is legal
  5. Forcing people to work for no pay
  6. devotion to local interests/ customs to a region of a nation
  7. Slang term for Union army
  8. another name for the North during the Civil War
  9. Wanted to make slavery illegal
  10. Part of army who fights while on horseback

20 Clues: to leave • To set free • Wanted to keep slavery • large farm in the South • to get rid of something • A formal/ official change • Slang term for Union army • Place where products are made • Wanted to make slavery illegal • Forcing people to work for no pay • Person who dies for their beliefs • A state where slavery was not legal • State A state where slavery is legal • ...

Crossword Activity: Anthony, Lincoln, and Washington 2023-02-07

Crossword Activity: Anthony, Lincoln, and Washington crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Amount of terms that Washington served
  2. Month that George Washington became president
  3. coin that Lincoln is on
  4. Continental Congress, What did Washington participate in, in 1775
  5. Susan B. Anthony was known as a
  6. Location where Abraham give his famous speech
  7. Who was free once Washington died
  8. railroad, Her home was a stop for the
  9. amendment, an Amendment that Susan helped pass
  10. State that Susan was born in
  11. war, War that Lincoln was a part of
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  1. Where was Washington born on February 22, 1732
  2. Age that Washington inherited his family's fortune
  3. guilty of voting, What happened to Susan in 1872
  4. Gave women the voice to protest for their
  5. Voting age in the United States
  6. In 1860 Lincoln became
  7. Washington was elected into the house of
  8. Civil war ended this
  9. position Lincoln did not get in state senate
  10. "Side" that he was on in the Civil War

21 Clues: Civil war ended this • In 1860 Lincoln became • coin that Lincoln is on • State that Susan was born in • Susan B. Anthony was known as a • Voting age in the United States • Who was free once Washington died • war, War that Lincoln was a part of • railroad, Her home was a stop for the • Amount of terms that Washington served • "Side" that he was on in the Civil War • ...

civil war crossword puzzle 2023-02-24

civil war crossword puzzle crossword puzzle
Across
  1. before the war
  2. highest in rank or authority
  3. how the south got there goods
  4. people should decide for themselves whether their territories would enter the Union as free or slave states
  5. to pick one side EX:free states and slave states
  6. people that were freed from slavery
  7. the president in the civil war
  8. disrespectful or rude to one color of skin
  9. slave states were considered what?
  10. a slave that left a slave state is consider property what act is this
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  1. the largest battle in the civil war
  2. things that are illegal in ones country
  3. how the north produced there goods
  4. congress wanted to keep a balance of power
  5. african americans that have been slaved by the south
  6. the free states were considered what?
  7. first battle of the civil war
  8. to leave one organization
  9. information facts to convince a public oppinion
  10. Souths main agricultural goods

20 Clues: before the war • to leave one organization • highest in rank or authority • first battle of the civil war • how the south got there goods • the president in the civil war • Souths main agricultural goods • how the north produced there goods • slave states were considered what? • the largest battle in the civil war • people that were freed from slavery • ...

American Civil War 2023-02-23

American Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. The person who won the Election of 1860
  2. States that didn't leave the Union that still allowed slavery
  3. This march was from Atlanta to Savannah
  4. First battle of the American Civil War
  5. discrimination against a group of people because of there ethnicity or race
  6. To leave
  7. it declared that all people held as slaves shall be free
  8. The practice of forced labor and restricted freedom
  9. The South needed ________ support
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  1. Southern states
  2. blocking a place so you can't import or export goods
  3. Capital of the Union
  4. Was the first state to secede
  5. Northern states
  6. This plan created a naval blockade around the confederacy, split the south in two along the Mississippi River, and to capture the Capital of Richmond, Virgina
  7. The Union had a ___________ population
  8. The South planned on fighting a __________ war
  9. Final battle of the Civil War
  10. Capital of the Confederacy
  11. Largest battle in the Civil War

20 Clues: To leave • Southern states • Northern states • Capital of the Union • Capital of the Confederacy • Was the first state to secede • Final battle of the Civil War • Largest battle in the Civil War • The South needed ________ support • The Union had a ___________ population • First battle of the American Civil War • The person who won the Election of 1860 • ...

logan =2nd hour 2023-03-19

logan =2nd hour crossword puzzle
Across
  1. if people found a slave they had to bring them to their owner
  2. act that allowed people to vote for slavery or freedom
  3. massacre led by proslavery people close to today Kansas
  4. Made Maine a free state a Missouri a slave state
  5. massacre led by john brown
  6. when the civil war ended
  7. Explorers that explored the lousiana territory in 1821
  8. first Kansas state govern
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  1. compromise in 1850
  2. country that the southern states made
  3. Violence between both sides in Kansas until Kansas was a free state
  4. elected president in 1861
  5. war against slavery
  6. Party that was taken over by republicans
  7. casuse of the civil war
  8. Purchase by the American goverment to claim louisana territory
  9. when the civil war started
  10. killed for terrsin
  11. first Kansas territory govern
  12. year kansas was ammited as a free state

20 Clues: compromise in 1850 • killed for terrsin • war against slavery • casuse of the civil war • when the civil war ended • elected president in 1861 • first Kansas state govern • when the civil war started • massacre led by john brown • first Kansas territory govern • country that the southern states made • year kansas was ammited as a free state • Party that was taken over by republicans • ...

Causes of the Civil War (pp. 439-460) 2024-04-10

Causes of the Civil War (pp. 439-460) crossword puzzle
Across
  1. The first state to secede
  2. A war between people of the same country
  3. Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote this book
  4. To leave the United States
  5. This law repealed the Missouri Compromise.
  6. The right of people to decide whether or not to allow slavery
  7. Supreme Court Case, ______ v. Sanford
  8. The first shots of Civil War
  9. Political party formed in 1854
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  1. The period before the Civil War
  2. President of the Confederacy
  3. Extreme abolitionist
  4. Won the election of 1860
  5. Required all citizen to capture all African Americans trying to escape slavery
  6. Last name of Southern Democratic presidential candidate in 1860
  7. "In ____ hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in MINE, is the momentous issue of civil war...
  8. The President before Lincoln
  9. Betraying one's country
  10. Lincolns political opponent in Illinois
  11. Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland, and Delaware
  12. The date Lincoln took the oath of office

21 Clues: Extreme abolitionist • Betraying one's country • Won the election of 1860 • The first state to secede • To leave the United States • President of the Confederacy • The President before Lincoln • The first shots of Civil War • Political party formed in 1854 • The period before the Civil War • Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote this book • Supreme Court Case, ______ v. Sanford • ...

WW1 2023-12-12

WW1 crossword puzzle
Across
  1. deadliest battle in North Georgia
  2. what code was used during world war
  3. what codes did they use in WW1
  4. intense form of patriotism
  5. deadliest battle of the civil war
  6. fighting style
  7. most used weapon in WW1
  8. German submarine
  9. Nickname for soilders
  10. Act of 1867
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  1. very deadly weapon long range
  2. how to get secret info in WW1
  3. most used rifle in WW1
  4. started civil war
  5. Most feared unit in WW1
  6. most commonly used tank in WW1
  7. Losers of WW1
  8. spaces in between trenches
  9. the war to end all wars
  10. pre alliance with russia france and great britain

20 Clues: Act of 1867 • Losers of WW1 • fighting style • German submarine • started civil war • Nickname for soilders • most used rifle in WW1 • Most feared unit in WW1 • the war to end all wars • most used weapon in WW1 • spaces in between trenches • intense form of patriotism • very deadly weapon long range • how to get secret info in WW1 • most commonly used tank in WW1 • ...

The Civil War 2013-04-11

The Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Sherman Appointed as commander by Ulysses S. Grant.
  2. Captain of the warship San Jacinto.
  3. Fort Sumter’s commander.
  4. The Confederacy did not make _______ fight because then it would show that they are equal.
  5. Clara Barton helped found this.
  6. Place where surrender arrangements for the Civil War were made.
  7. Which state was formed when Virginia seceded from the Union?
  8. Some people hired a __________ to fill their draft position.
  9. He succeeded Abraham Lincoln as President.
  10. Act passed in 1863 that set up a system of federally chartered banks.
  11. Who was the diplomat that tried to gain British support in 1861?
  12. Period in which the United States began to rebuild after the Civil War.
  13. Lincoln was watching this comedy when he was shot.
  14. Confederate woman famous for keeping a diary describing war events.
  15. who wanted to destroy the political power of former slaveholders.
  16. First state to secede.
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  1. The Union had many more ________ than the Confederacy.
  2. Lincoln’s assassinator.
  3. This happened to many southern currencies throughout the Civil War.
  4. This was set up to improve hygienic conditions fo army camps and to recruit and train nurses.
  5. In the Election of 1865, President Lincoln thought he was going to be beaten by George McCellan what other candidate?
  6. The Union had much more ________ than the Confederacy.
  7. President of the Confederacy.
  8. President Lincoln’s famous two minute speech following one of the most notorious battles of the Civil War.
  9. Which amendment outlawed slavery?
  10. In the Civil War, _________ were used instead of muskets.

26 Clues: First state to secede. • Lincoln’s assassinator. • Fort Sumter’s commander. • President of the Confederacy. • Clara Barton helped found this. • Which amendment outlawed slavery? • Captain of the warship San Jacinto. • He succeeded Abraham Lincoln as President. • Lincoln was watching this comedy when he was shot. • Sherman Appointed as commander by Ulysses S. Grant. • ...

World History chapter 3- MS 2017-10-17

World History chapter 3- MS crossword puzzle
Across
  1. power the tribune had to protect the rights of the common people
  2. general appointed by the Senate in the first civil war
  3. the basic unit of early Roman society
  4. symbolized the king's power
  5. mountain chain that runs down the middle of Italy
  6. the sole authority over the family life
  7. the government officials that replaced the king and held the imperium
  8. who the Greek colonies turned to to help fight against the Roman conquest
  9. where the twelve tables are located and center of government
  10. island on the southern tip of Italy
  11. military leader who had the favor of the people in the second civil war
  12. Caesar's right hand man
  13. became the most important and most powerful body of the republic
  14. inferior class
  15. the king's authority
  16. collected the taxes for Rome and took money for themselves
  17. military leader who had the contribution of money in the second civil war
  18. champion for the common people in the first Civil war
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  1. heart of the Roman Empire
  2. first settlers of Italy
  3. Caesar's nephew
  4. commander of a victorious army
  5. means "Our sea"
  6. first Italian civilization
  7. rule by three men
  8. aristocratic class
  9. a way through which the people could express their views
  10. military genius of the Carthaginian army in the second Punic War
  11. series of wars fought between Rome and Carthage
  12. military leader who had the support of the senate in the second civil war
  13. a Roman commander who helped in the surrender of the Carthaginians at the battle of Zama

31 Clues: inferior class • Caesar's nephew • means "Our sea" • rule by three men • aristocratic class • the king's authority • first settlers of Italy • Caesar's right hand man • heart of the Roman Empire • first Italian civilization • symbolized the king's power • commander of a victorious army • island on the southern tip of Italy • the basic unit of early Roman society • ...

TN History Unit 6 2024-01-23

TN History Unit 6 crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Confederate General who was General Lee's "right arm."
  2. The Confederacy started the Civil War when they attacked this fort.
  3. At the Battle of Gettysburg, this charge resulted in a loss of half of the soldiers who participated in it.
  4. Was president of the United States during the Civil War.
  5. This was the bloodiest battle of the war and the turning point of the Civil War.
  6. This battle had the single bloodiest day of fighting during the Civil War.
  7. Confederate General who founded the Ku Klux Klan.
  8. Became the top general of the Confederacy after Virginia seceded.
  9. Northern Democrats that supported the Union but wanted to preserve slavery.
Down
  1. The Union's final top general that defeated the Confederacy's General Lee.
  2. This decree ended slavery in the Southern states.
  3. This is the courthouse Lee surrendered to Grant and ended the Civil War.
  4. The government of the states that seceded from the Union.
  5. The ineffective Union General that was fired for calling Lincoln a "gorilla."
  6. The right to know what you are being charged with.
  7. This city in western Tennessee was virtually abandoned to the Union after the Battle of Shiloh and the siege of the Corinth railroad junction.
  8. This actor assassinated Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre.
  9. The act of withdrawing formally from membership of the Union.
  10. General Winfield Scott came up with this plan to take New Orleans and the Mississippi River.
  11. This middle Tennessee city fell to the Union quickly after the Union captured the Cumberland River at Fort Donelson.

20 Clues: This decree ended slavery in the Southern states. • Confederate General who founded the Ku Klux Klan. • The right to know what you are being charged with. • Confederate General who was General Lee's "right arm." • Was president of the United States during the Civil War. • The government of the states that seceded from the Union. • ...

Civil War Review 2022-01-05

Civil War Review crossword puzzle
Across
  1. This Union general burned Atlanta to the ground in the Civil War.
  2. The Confederacy.
  3. The Union created the _____ Plan to defeat the South in the war.
  4. The Confederacy elected _____ to be their President.
  5. This man's election in 1860 caused the southern states to begin seceding.
  6. In 1861, South Carolina attacked a Union based called Fort _____.
  7. The _____ River was overtaken by the Union in the Battle of Vicksburg.
  8. The Battle of _____ was the deadliest battle in the Civil War.
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  1. The _____ Compromise stated that no slavery would be allowed north of the 36'30 parallel.
  2. This was the movement to end slavery.
  3. This man was Lincoln's Vice President and became president when he was assassinated.
  4. This man was the leader of the Union troops in the war.
  5. The Union.
  6. This western state was added to the Union as a free state in the Compromise of 1850.
  7. This western territory saw a lot of fighting and death before the Civil War as people fought to determine if it should be a slave or free state.
  8. This man was the leader of the Confederate troops in the war.
  9. This was a nickname for northerners who opposed the Civil War.
  10. Dred _____ was an enslaved man who unsuccessfully sued for his freedom in the Supreme Court.

18 Clues: The Union. • The Confederacy. • This was the movement to end slavery. • The Confederacy elected _____ to be their President. • This man was the leader of the Union troops in the war. • This man was the leader of the Confederate troops in the war. • This was a nickname for northerners who opposed the Civil War. • ...

WW1 2023-12-12

WW1 crossword puzzle
Across
  1. deadliest battle in North Georgia
  2. what code was used during world war
  3. what codes did they use in WW1
  4. intense form of patriotism
  5. deadliest battle of the civil war
  6. fighting style
  7. most used weapon in WW1
  8. German submarine
  9. Nickname for soilders
  10. Act of 1867
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  1. very deadly weapon long range
  2. how to get secret info in WW1
  3. most used rifle in WW1
  4. started civil war
  5. Most feared unit in WW1
  6. most commonly used tank in WW1
  7. Losers of WW1
  8. spaces in between trenches
  9. the war to end all wars
  10. pre alliance with russia france and great britain

20 Clues: Act of 1867 • Losers of WW1 • fighting style • German submarine • started civil war • Nickname for soilders • most used rifle in WW1 • Most feared unit in WW1 • the war to end all wars • most used weapon in WW1 • spaces in between trenches • intense form of patriotism • very deadly weapon long range • how to get secret info in WW1 • most commonly used tank in WW1 • ...

Impact of the Civil War (7.7) 2023-05-24

Impact of the Civil War (7.7) crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Assassinated Abraham Lincoln
  2. Lee formally surrendered to Grant at _____ Court House
  3. Amendment that abolished slavery
  4. Historian Richard Current feels the inability to gain an _____ ally helped seal the fate of the South in losing the war
  5. The inflation rate for the Union during the Civil War was _____%
  6. Lincoln's decision to proclaim _____ was a fateful step that changed the nature of the war
  7. Debates over states' rights did not end with the Civil War, but the war helped cement _____ authority
Down
  1. $100 million estimated property damage was a result of _____
  2. In the North, the industrial _____ that was fueled by the war continued
  3. One of the reasons for the Union victory was _____ superiority
  4. Confederate Vice President who met with Abraham Lincoln to discuss a feasible end to the war in February of 1865
  5. The era after the Civil War became known as this
  6. One of the reasons for the Union victory was superior _____ leadership
  7. The Civil War ushered in the harsh reality of modern _____
  8. One of the reasons for the Union victory was better _____

15 Clues: Assassinated Abraham Lincoln • Amendment that abolished slavery • The era after the Civil War became known as this • Lee formally surrendered to Grant at _____ Court House • One of the reasons for the Union victory was better _____ • The Civil War ushered in the harsh reality of modern _____ • $100 million estimated property damage was a result of _____ • ...

sectionalism 2026-01-08

sectionalism crossword puzzle
Across
  1. The effort, after the Civil War, to
  2. Free from outside control;
  3. Focus on the interests of
  4. one belongs to
  5. into military
  6. The forced enrollment of
  7. region
  8. War
  9. formerly enslaved person
  10. them back to the Union
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  1. the seceded states and
  2. To withdraw from a larger
  3. government scalawag A white Southerner who
  4. Reconstruction
  5. of food and supplies
  6. A person who supported the
  7. cause during the
  8. Using naval vessels to prevent
  9. for a
  10. The civilian world in war time front
  11. or out of ports
  12. Northerner in the South

22 Clues: War • for a • region • into military • Reconstruction • one belongs to • or out of ports • cause during the • of food and supplies • the seceded states and • them back to the Union • Northerner in the South • The forced enrollment of • formerly enslaved person • To withdraw from a larger • Focus on the interests of • Free from outside control; • A person who supported the • ...

Reconstruction 2021-09-15

Reconstruction crossword puzzle
Across
  1. - Laws that were passed after Reconstruction ended to discriminate against African Americans
  2. The practice of forcing people of different racial groups to be separate
  3. organization established to restore political power to the pre-civil war whites in the South
  4. Compromise of 1877
  5. a 1896 Supreme Court decision which legalized segregation so long as everything was equal
  6. Laws denying most legal rights to newly freed slaves
  7. Banned slavery in the United States
  8. A test given to African Americans to prove they could read before they would be allowed to vote.
  9. a pardon to a group of people
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  1. Gave citizenship to everyone born in the United States
  2. a farming system used to keep former slaves as free or cheap labor
  3. enslaved people who had been freed by the war
  4. The time of rebuilding in the south after the Civil War
  5. A secret organization that used terrorist tactics in an attempt to restore white supremacy in Southern states after the Civil War.
  6. The right to vote regardless of race
  7. An organization that gave supplies to former slaves.
  8. A northerner who went to the South immediately after the Civil War to exploit the post-war South.
  9. A law that required voters to pay before they were allowed to vote.
  10. Southern whites who had opposed secession

19 Clues: Compromise of 1877 • a pardon to a group of people • Banned slavery in the United States • The right to vote regardless of race • Southern whites who had opposed secession • enslaved people who had been freed by the war • An organization that gave supplies to former slaves. • Laws denying most legal rights to newly freed slaves • ...

Unit 5 Civil War and Reconstruction 2024-05-08

Unit 5 Civil War and Reconstruction crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Fort ____ was a sea fort built near Charlestown, SC
  2. He was a famous Civil War general and later becomes president
  3. Surrounding an enemy town/fort to get them to surrender
  4. He was President of the Confederate States of America.
  5. This many southern states broke away from the Union
  6. In this South, this crop was a major export.
  7. This term refers to people being loyal to their region of the country
  8. ____'s March to the Sea was a destructive march from Atlanta to Savanna
  9. The Northern side of the Civil War is known as the ____.
  10. Fighting between pro and anti-slavery over Kansas is known as ____ Kansas
  11. This state was the first to secede from the Union.
  12. This battle occurred early in the Civil War in the state of Maryland
  13. Southern states wanted to ____ from the Union and be their own country
  14. Invention as a form of communication that transmits info by electrical signals sent by wire
  15. This was the first major battle of the Civil War (2 wds)
  16. This major conflict was between the North and South
  17. Soldiers that move on foot and carry muskets/rifles
  18. Uncle Tom's ___ was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe
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  1. In the Senate chamber, this man was beaten with a cane by Preston Brooks
  2. Division of soldiers that specialize in cannons and explosives
  3. Famous Confederate General that invaded Northern states
  4. Someone who wants to end slavery is known as this.
  5. The South argued for secession in order to protect state's ____
  6. Slang term used to describe Union soldiers
  7. Slaves were emancipated by Abraham _____.
  8. This was the official name of the southern states during the Civil War
  9. The surrender at ____ was the beginning of the end for the Confederacy
  10. In 1863, this battle took place in Adams County, PA
  11. Southerners referred to the Civil War as the War of Northern ______
  12. Series of military operations that form a distinct phase of the war.
  13. Group of soldiers that ride into battle on horseback
  14. Naval tactic where ships block off the coast from getting supplies

32 Clues: Slaves were emancipated by Abraham _____. • Slang term used to describe Union soldiers • In this South, this crop was a major export. • Someone who wants to end slavery is known as this. • This state was the first to secede from the Union. • Fort ____ was a sea fort built near Charlestown, SC • This many southern states broke away from the Union • ...

Civil War Crossword Puzzle 2023-05-15

Civil War Crossword Puzzle crossword puzzle
Across
  1. This was the common handheld firearm used during the times of the Civil War
  2. This was the plan that was being used by the Union to choke out all of the South's outside trade to weaken them
  3. Removing an over damaged limb from someone's body and either replacing it or not happening commonly during War
  4. A rotating armored structure on a warship that of which aims the weaponry it contains
  5. This was the type of Economy the South was built on powered by slave labor
  6. These were the first Metal ships or war naval vehicles used
  7. The group or country the Southern states formed after breaking away from the Union
  8. A sword like attachment that fits on the end of a firearm
  9. These were women who helped heal soldiers who were battle wounded and increased sanitary practice
  10. A March that of which ended the Civil War because of all the damaged it had caused as a Union army led by General Sherman marched directly to the COnfederate capital destroying everything in their way.
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  1. An Important fort located outside charleston harbor which had quick access to many Southern trade routes
  2. The time when the North and the South for the first time fought competitively for something they wanted
  3. The most costly out of all the Wars that America has been involved towards the North Americans
  4. Laws that were enforced in the South after the Civil War where the south tried to keep slavery
  5. This was the amendment that made slaves free men
  6. These were the people who rushed Kansa hoping to claim in for the Union or the Confederacy
  7. This was the group of the Northern states during the Civil War
  8. He was the president for the Union during the Civil War and was a very great president being elected again after the Civil War ended
  9. These were people who were treated like property
  10. This was the main way of how the economy in the North was powered and held strong in

20 Clues: This was the amendment that made slaves free men • These were people who were treated like property • A sword like attachment that fits on the end of a firearm • These were the first Metal ships or war naval vehicles used • This was the group of the Northern states during the Civil War • This was the type of Economy the South was built on powered by slave labor • ...

Nathalie's Helpful Crossword 2022-03-04

Nathalie's Helpful Crossword crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Where did the Civil War start?
  2. First state to secede from union?
  3. The month the Civil War ended?
  4. Who lost the Civil War?
  5. Who served as the Secretary of State throughout the Civil War?
  6. Who won the Civil War?
Down
  1. Who was the leader of the confederacy?
  2. What was the last battle of the Civil War?
  3. The angel of the battlefield?
  4. Who was in charge of union army?

10 Clues: Who won the Civil War? • Who lost the Civil War? • The angel of the battlefield? • Where did the Civil War start? • The month the Civil War ended? • Who was in charge of union army? • First state to secede from union? • Who was the leader of the confederacy? • What was the last battle of the Civil War? • Who served as the Secretary of State throughout the Civil War?

The Civil War 2023-03-03

The Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. the name of the first battle of the Civil War
  2. a person that fights to end slavery
  3. another word for areas that relied on big factories
  4. the side of the war most white Virginians supported
  5. led a revolt against slavery in VA
  6. last name of the woman who helped free 300 slaves through the Underground Railroad
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  1. Virginia a new state made after Virginia seceded
  2. Confederate capital that was burned toward the end of the war
  3. the side that won the Civil War
  4. number of years the civil war lasted
  5. last name of the Union general when the Civil War ended
  6. nickname for Confederate general Thomas Jackson
  7. _______ and Merrimack were the ships that fought near Norfolk
  8. another word for areas that relied on agriculture

14 Clues: the side that won the Civil War • led a revolt against slavery in VA • a person that fights to end slavery • number of years the civil war lasted • the name of the first battle of the Civil War • nickname for Confederate general Thomas Jackson • Virginia a new state made after Virginia seceded • another word for areas that relied on agriculture • ...

Civil War 2021-05-20

Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. One new items of technology used during the Civil War
  2. Lincoln offered __________ command of the Union forces before learning he was loyal to the Confederacy
  3. Emancipation Proclamation applied only to the states that _________ the Union
  4. The single bloodiest battle in U.S. history
  5. The proposed 13th Amendment (not the actual amendment) would protect ________ from government control
  6. Challenge Clue: This state was formed out of existing states in 1861
  7. On April 12th shots were fired at this place
  8. The first state to secede from the Union
  9. This movement in the 1950s and 1960s helped African American gain legal equality
  10. Type of conditions that allowed for disease to kill over 600,000 people during the Civil War
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  1. Congress began this process from the end of the Civil War to 1877
  2. Civil War spy from Virginia who gave information to the Union
  3. How long did the Civil War Last?
  4. Several African-American soldiers fighting for the Union received the _____
  5. The legal age to enter the army
  6. This man represented Mississippi in the U.S. Senate before coming president of the Confederacy
  7. Maryland, Delaware, Kentucky and Missouri were known as ________ and remained in the Union

17 Clues: The legal age to enter the army • How long did the Civil War Last? • The first state to secede from the Union • The single bloodiest battle in U.S. history • On April 12th shots were fired at this place • One new items of technology used during the Civil War • Civil War spy from Virginia who gave information to the Union • ...

Vocab 2021-05-06

Vocab crossword puzzle
Across
  1. to go on the attack
  2. name given to white northern republicans who moved to the south after civil war
  3. setting an argument with an agreement
  4. protection from prosecution for an illegal act
  5. white southern republicans- name given by former confederates
  6. to select persons for required military service
  7. period after the civil war which the US worked to reunite the country
  8. a person killed or wounded in battle
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  1. confederate efforts to use the importance of southern cotton to Britain's textile industry to persuade the British to support the Confederacy in the Civil War
  2. a person freed from slavery
  3. forced separation of people of different race
  4. to approve
  5. the paper money printed by the North during the Civil War
  6. a confederate soldier
  7. to close ports
  8. the right of accused individuals to have a hearing before being jailed
  9. a general increase in prices

17 Clues: to approve • to close ports • to go on the attack • a confederate soldier • a person freed from slavery • a general increase in prices • a person killed or wounded in battle • setting an argument with an agreement • forced separation of people of different race • protection from prosecution for an illegal act • to select persons for required military service • ...

Civil War Review 2019-01-08

Civil War Review crossword puzzle
Across
  1. slave who sued US government for his freedom
  2. bloodiest day in American military history
  3. first battle of the Civil War
  4. Union strategy to defeat the South
  5. first state to secede
  6. "The North" or USA during the Civil War
  7. location of Lee's surrender
  8. battle in which Union cut Confederacy in two
  9. government formed in 1861 by 11 southern states
  10. commander of the Bayou City steamer at Galveston battle
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  1. Confederate general who surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant
  2. act that allowed territories to vote on slavery issue
  3. last battle of the Civil War
  4. act that prohibited slavery north of the 36,30 line
  5. Texas governor who enforced Conscription Act
  6. a person who supported the union cause during the war
  7. to withdraw from a larger unit one belongs to
  8. Lincoln's assassin
  9. Confederate general who recaptured Galveston

19 Clues: Lincoln's assassin • first state to secede • location of Lee's surrender • last battle of the Civil War • first battle of the Civil War • Union strategy to defeat the South • "The North" or USA during the Civil War • bloodiest day in American military history • slave who sued US government for his freedom • Texas governor who enforced Conscription Act • ...

Civil War Crossword Puzzle 2020-03-13

Civil War Crossword Puzzle crossword puzzle
Across
  1. gin A machine used to separate cotton
  2. A type of gun.
  3. Break Away
  4. of Antietam The bloodiest day of the war
  5. Scott An african american man they wanted to win his freedom after his owner died.
  6. proclamation This was released on Jan 1st, 1863.
  7. A fight between two groups or single people
  8. Lincoln America’s 16th president
  9. Address This speech was told November 19, 1863.
  10. Were most Pro Slavery people lived at
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  1. Sumter Were the first battle of the Civil War took place
  2. People who fought in the war are...
  3. Slave act The act if any slave runs away, people have the right to take them back.
  4. The head of the United States
  5. To make amends for someone's wrongdoing.
  6. E Lee General that led the confederate army
  7. An act established and put in place by the government
  8. War The war between citizens in the exact same country
  9. States The states that were not free
  10. The state of being held captive by a person
  11. Were moth Anti Slave people lived
  12. Crittden Former Politician from Kentucky
  13. Brady Photographer for the Civil War
  14. of Bull Run The Union’s first victory in the War
  15. States The free states

25 Clues: Break Away • A type of gun. • States The free states • The head of the United States • Were moth Anti Slave people lived • Lincoln America’s 16th president • People who fought in the war are... • gin A machine used to separate cotton • States The states that were not free • Brady Photographer for the Civil War • Were most Pro Slavery people lived at • ...

Civil War 2021-10-26

Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Place where general lee surrendered
  2. President of the confederacy
  3. Important railroad for the south
  4. Military leader of the union
  5. Reason why the south got mad
  6. First state to secede
  7. Major trade center for the south
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  1. Good that the south exported
  2. President of the union
  3. The south had more of them that whites
  4. How lincoln died
  5. Opposing side of the union
  6. Person who does not like slavery
  7. Bloodiest battle of the civil war
  8. First battle of the civil war
  9. How many years was the civil war

16 Clues: How lincoln died • First state to secede • President of the union • Opposing side of the union • Good that the south exported • President of the confederacy • Military leader of the union • Reason why the south got mad • First battle of the civil war • Important railroad for the south • Person who does not like slavery • How many years was the civil war • ...

7th Grade Crossword Peyton Stotesbery 2024-01-17

7th Grade Crossword Peyton Stotesbery crossword puzzle
Across
  1. a person who wants to stop or abolish slavery
  2. slave states that border with the free states during the United States Civil War
  3. a machine for separating cotton from its seeds
  4. the withdrawal of eleven southern states from the Union in 1860, leading to the Civil War
  5. showed that the Union could stand against the Confederate army
  6. showed how badly both union and confederate soldiers needed training
  7. cut off trading with other countries
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  1. the network used by enslaved black Americans to obtain their freedom
  2. commanded the Army of Northern Virginia, the most successful of the Southern armies during the American Civil War
  3. 16th President of the United States
  4. 1865 as a result of the union victory at Antietam
  5. an alliance of people or groups formed for an forbidden purpose
  6. A war between the north and the south over slavery
  7. a series of violent civil confrontations in Kansas Territory
  8. the crime of betraying one's country
  9. military strategy proposed by Union General Winfield Scott early in the American Civil War

16 Clues: 16th President of the United States • the crime of betraying one's country • cut off trading with other countries • a person who wants to stop or abolish slavery • a machine for separating cotton from its seeds • 1865 as a result of the union victory at Antietam • A war between the north and the south over slavery • ...

topic 8 2023-05-14

topic 8 crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Includes California admitted as a free state, the Fugitive Slave Act, Made popular sovereignty in most other states from Mexican- American War
  2. general in the Confederate Army during the Civil War whose troops at the first Battle of Bull Run stood like a stone wall (1824-1863)
  3. What was the first battle of ironclads
  4. 1st battle of the Civil war resulting in a moral boosting confederate victory
  5. a novel published by harriet beecher stowe in 1852 which portrayed slavery as brutal and immoral
  6. Union General that marched through the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia, destroying farms, livestock, crops, and anything else in his path.
  7. Northern Civil War strategy to starve the South by blockading seaports and controlling the Mississippi River
  8. Abolitionist who was hanged after leading an unsuccessful raid at Harper's Ferry, Virginia (1800-1858)
  9. the democratic party split, Lincoln was elected president
  10. He was a Union general that was in charge during the beginning of the war. He defeated Lee, at Antietam, securing a much needed Union victory.
  11. Union general destructive march across Georgia
  12. Turning point of the Civil War
  13. A bullet with a hollow base
  14. an agreement in 1820 between pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions in the United States concerning the extension of slavery into new territories
  15. in the civil war the states between the north and the south: Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri
  16. This was battle fought by Grant in an attempt to capture the railroad of the South near Corinth. Union victory after 2 days.
  17. General Ambrose Burnside replaced McClellan and he attacked Lee in 1862 here while suffering immense losses (more than 2 soldiers on Union side killed for every one Confederate)
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  1. a law that allowed voters in Kansas and Nebraska to choose whether to allow slavery
  2. Issued by Abraham Lincoln, it declared that all slaves in the confederate states would be free
  3. First African American Regimen, successfully defended Fort Wagner
  4. The bloodiest day of the Civil War. Lee planned a northern invasion into Maryland but a Union soldier discovered those battle plans wrapped around three cigars.As it was, Union forces drove the Confederates back across the Potomac.
  5. First state to secede from the Union
  6. 1846 proposal that outlawed slavery in any territory gained from the War with Mexico
  7. First battle of the Civil War, was ultimately captured by the South
  8. Law that provided for harsh treatment for escaped slaves and for those who helped them
  9. series of debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas over the issue of slavery
  10. President of the Confederate States of America
  11. split the Confederacy in two and gave the North control of the Mississippi River.
  12. the Confederates under Robert E. Lee defeated the Union forces under Joseph Hooker. General Jackson was killed by friendly fire.
  13. an American general and won a major victory at Vicksburg. He achieved international fame as the leading Union general in the American Civil War.
  14. Abolitionist senator whose verbal attack on the South provoked a physical assault that severely injured him
  15. N. Democrats who opposed the Civil War & sympathized w/ the South; fought against Lincoln, the draft & emancipation
  16. Location in Virginia of General Lee's surrender.
  17. Supreme Court ruling that declared slaves were not viewed as citizens but as property
  18. Commander of the Confederate Army

35 Clues: A bullet with a hollow base • Turning point of the Civil War • Commander of the Confederate Army • First state to secede from the Union • What was the first battle of ironclads • President of the Confederate States of America • Union general destructive march across Georgia • Location in Virginia of General Lee's surrender. • ...

Civil War Crossword Puzzle 2023-05-15

Civil War Crossword Puzzle crossword puzzle
Across
  1. The group or country the Southern states formed after breaking away from the Union
  2. This was the amendment that made slaves free men
  3. These were the first Metal ships or war naval vehicles used
  4. A March that of which ended the Civil War because of all the damaged it had caused as a Union army led by General Sherman marched directly to the COnfederate capital destroying everything in their way.
  5. The most costly out of all the Wars that America has been involved towards the North Americans
  6. Laws that were enforced in the South after the Civil War where the south tried to keep slavery
  7. These were women who helped heal soldiers who were battle wounded and increased sanitary practice
  8. This was the type of Economy the South was built on powered by slave labor
  9. Removing an over damaged limb from someone's body and either replacing it or not happening commonly during War
  10. An Important fort located outside charleston harbor which had quick access to many Southern trade routes
Down
  1. The time when the North and the South for the first time fought competitively for something they wanted
  2. This was the plan that was being used by the Union to choke out all of the South's outside trade to weaken them
  3. A sword like attachment that fits on the end of a firearm
  4. These were the people who rushed Kansa hoping to claim in for the Union or the Confederacy
  5. This was the common handheld firearm used during the times of the Civil War
  6. A rotating armored structure on a warship that of which aims the weaponry it contains
  7. He was the president for the Union during the Civil War and was a very great president being elected again after the Civil War ended
  8. This was the main way of how the economy in the North was powered and held strong in
  9. This was the group of the Northern states during the Civil War
  10. These were people who were treated like property

20 Clues: This was the amendment that made slaves free men • These were people who were treated like property • A sword like attachment that fits on the end of a firearm • These were the first Metal ships or war naval vehicles used • This was the group of the Northern states during the Civil War • This was the type of Economy the South was built on powered by slave labor • ...

Civil War Vocab 2025-11-16

Civil War Vocab crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Amendment to the Constitution which granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States.
  2. Law proposed that determined that slavery was to be decided by popular sovereignty in the Kansas and Nebraska Territories.
  3. Holiday in the US commemorating the emancipation of African-American slaves.
  4. The period of rebuilding that followed the Civil War, during which the defeated Confederate states were readmitted to the Union.
  5. Supreme Court decision that ruled that blacks were not citizens, and that Congress did not have the power to prohibit slavery in any territory.
  6. Union military campaign that included the destruction of not just Confederate military outposts, but also civilian property.
  7. An executive order issued by Abraham Lincoln after the Battle of Antietam, freeing slaves in all regions behind Confederate lines.
  8. Biracial political party in Virginia after the Civil War that was focused on paying the State's war debts.
  9. This agreement admitted California as a free state, opened New Mexico & Utah to popular sovereignty.
  10. Preserved the balance of power and stalled tension between North and South allowing Missouri to join US as a slave-holding state and Maine as a free state.
  11. Location of the first conflict in the Civil War on April 12, 1861.
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  1. Amendment to the Constitution that granted voting rights to African American males.
  2. The formal withdrawal of a state from the Union.
  3. Amendment to the Constitution that abolished slavery.
  4. A famous speech delivered by Abraham Lincoln at the dedication of a national cemetery on the site of a battle.
  5. Era that emerged after the Civil War as former Confederates regained political power in the South.
  6. Provided support to former slaves & poor whites in South.
  7. The greatest battle of the Civil War that ended in a major victory for the North and is considered the turning point of the war.
  8. Republicans in Congress who wanted to destroy the political power of former slaveholders and give African Americans full citizenship and the right to vote.
  9. Town in central Virginia where Lee surrendered to Grant, ending the Civil War.

20 Clues: The formal withdrawal of a state from the Union. • Amendment to the Constitution that abolished slavery. • Provided support to former slaves & poor whites in South. • Location of the first conflict in the Civil War on April 12, 1861. • Holiday in the US commemorating the emancipation of African-American slaves. • ...

Historic Speeches 2024-08-07

Historic Speeches crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Johnson’s support for rights legislation
  2. Armstrong’s moon landing speech
  3. Sustainable development speech
  4. Kennedy’s vision for America
  5. Lincoln’s order freeing slaves
  6. MacArthur’s post-WWII address
  7. Churchill’s WWII defiant speech
  8. Churchill’s speech on Soviet influence
  9. Hitler’s manifesto
  10. Reagan’s challenge to end the Berlin Wall
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  1. Roosevelt’s vision for post-WWII
  2. Kennedy’s call to action
  3. Kennedy’s space exploration commitment
  4. Lincoln’s address at a Civil War battle
  5. Roosevelt’s declaration of war
  6. Nixon’s 1952 defense speech
  7. Response to Soviet blockade
  8. Churchill’s morale-boosting speech
  9. Sojourner Truth’s women’s rights speech
  10. Martin Luther King Jr.’s civil rights speech

20 Clues: Hitler’s manifesto • Kennedy’s call to action • Nixon’s 1952 defense speech • Response to Soviet blockade • Kennedy’s vision for America • MacArthur’s post-WWII address • Roosevelt’s declaration of war • Sustainable development speech • Lincoln’s order freeing slaves • Armstrong’s moon landing speech • Churchill’s WWII defiant speech • Roosevelt’s vision for post-WWII • ...

History Crossword 2017-05-22

History Crossword crossword puzzle
Across
  1. transportation system that makes it easier to move around the country
  2. King of Britain
  3. first self government
  4. list grievances about King George
  5. here before the colonies settled
  6. slave trade route
  7. war between the union and confederacy
  8. first colony
  9. wrote Declaration of Independence
  10. general for the union
  11. discovered electricity
  12. workforce for colonies
  13. first Vice President
Down
  1. /the forgotten war
  2. war that lasted 7 years
  3. war to get independence from Britain
  4. president during the civil war for the union
  5. law of the land
  6. belief it was God given right to expand west
  7. branches balance each other out
  8. first president
  9. /eneral for the confederacy
  10. communications used in civil war
  11. cause of Marbury v Madison case
  12. rights of the people

25 Clues: first colony • King of Britain • law of the land • first president • slave trade route • /the forgotten war • rights of the people • first Vice President • first self government • general for the union • discovered electricity • workforce for colonies • war that lasted 7 years • /eneral for the confederacy • branches balance each other out • cause of Marbury v Madison case • ...

Nathalie's Helpful Crossword 2022-03-04

Nathalie's Helpful Crossword crossword puzzle
Across
  1. What was the last battle of the Civil War?
  2. First state to secede from union?
  3. The month the Civil War ended?
  4. Who was in charge of union army?
  5. Who was the leader of the confederacy?
Down
  1. The angel of the battlefield?
  2. Who served as the Secretary of State throughout the Civil War?
  3. Where did the Civil War start?
  4. Who won the Civil War?
  5. Who lost the Civil War?

10 Clues: Who won the Civil War? • Who lost the Civil War? • The angel of the battlefield? • Where did the Civil War start? • The month the Civil War ended? • Who was in charge of union army? • First state to secede from union? • Who was the leader of the confederacy? • What was the last battle of the Civil War? • Who served as the Secretary of State throughout the Civil War?

African Wars Jaden 2024-05-23

African Wars Jaden crossword puzzle
Across
  1. National Resistance Army
  2. The mam that ran a rebel organization that forced mobutu into exile
  3. The US led Unified Task Force
  4. Establishment of transitional government, but sporadic violence and insecurity persisted in eastern Congo
  5. People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia
  6. People as Southeastern Nigeria
  7. The crisis that saw overthrow of Patrice Lumumba
  8. A extremist group during the Somali Civil War
  9. Uganda National Liberation Front
  10. Tigray People's Liberation Front
  11. Diamonds mined in a war zone and sold to fund conflict
  12. The President of Uganda In 1971
  13. Rwandan genocide
  14. The militant Islamist and jihadist rebel group
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  1. A ethnic group found mostly in northern Nigeria
  2. Leader of the NRA
  3. The battle were the Somali militia forces shot down three American Black Hawk helicopters
  4. The rise of the Marxist-Leninist military dictatorship
  5. Ethiopian Red Terror
  6. When Kenyan troops entered southern Somalia to fight the al-Shabaa
  7. The Non-Governmental Organization
  8. Uganda National Liberation Army
  9. Eritrean People's Liberation Front
  10. The largest battle in the Uganda War
  11. A civil war also known as The Biafran War
  12. Africa's First World War with a civil war and international military conflict that took place mostly in Zaire

26 Clues: Rwandan genocide • Leader of the NRA • Ethiopian Red Terror • National Resistance Army • The US led Unified Task Force • People as Southeastern Nigeria • Uganda National Liberation Army • The President of Uganda In 1971 • Uganda National Liberation Front • Tigray People's Liberation Front • The Non-Governmental Organization • Eritrean People's Liberation Front • ...

Texas Involvement in Civil War Vocabulary Crossword 2023-03-30

Texas Involvement in Civil War Vocabulary Crossword crossword puzzle
Across
  1. This Amendment Can’t deny a person the right to vote based on their race or previous servitude
  2. Independent power given to the people
  3. Last known battle fought in the American Civil War (Fought in Texas)
  4. Blocking off an area to keep supplies from getting in or out
  5. The Texas ____________ was written in 1876
  6. Steamboats that were converted to war ships during the war
  7. Who was the president of the Confederacy?
  8. Sections of the south that were created after the civil war to implement the new laws among the states
  9. Cash crop in the Southern states
  10. This class covers ___________ history
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  1. Who was President of the United States during the Civil War?
  2. The act of rebuilding; Generally, refers to the rebuilding of the Union following the Civil War
  3. This individual was removed from the Texas governor office because they did not support the Confederacy
  4. The act of giving someone freedom
  5. Political party who wanted to stop the expansion of slavery
  6. To withdraw, including the withdrawal of states from the Union
  7. This Amendment provided citizenship to all former slaves
  8. The ________ act required men of certain age to serve in the military during the war
  9. A tenant farmer who receives a portion of the crop
  10. The imposition of laws by a military authority, general in defeated territories
  11. This Amendment abolished slavery in all states
  12. Concern for regional needs and interests
  13. 1861-1865

23 Clues: 1861-1865 • Cash crop in the Southern states • The act of giving someone freedom • Independent power given to the people • This class covers ___________ history • Concern for regional needs and interests • Who was the president of the Confederacy? • The Texas ____________ was written in 1876 • This Amendment abolished slavery in all states • ...

Civil War Vocab 2021-03-23

Civil War Vocab crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Part of a country leaves
  2. To print something from a flat surface, the first photos
  3. Court house where surrender was signed
  4. A group working against something (violent)
  5. The South during the Civil war
  6. Reporting and the news
  7. Sumper First battle of the War, Confederate Victory
  8. When you get pooled to go to war
  9. Ending Slavery
  10. President of the Confederate States of America
  11. illegal war materials, stolen
  12. Address Speech given by Lincoln, turning point in the War
  13. states Slave states that stayed connected with the free states
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  1. Carolina First state to secede from the Union
  2. To free
  3. President of the United States
  4. The North (United States) during the Civil war
  5. The differences between the Northern & Southern states that pushed them to war
  6. Proclamation - War tactic by Lincoln "military necessity"
  7. Morse code texting over lines

20 Clues: To free • Ending Slavery • Reporting and the news • Part of a country leaves • Morse code texting over lines • illegal war materials, stolen • President of the United States • The South during the Civil war • When you get pooled to go to war • Court house where surrender was signed • A group working against something (violent) • Carolina First state to secede from the Union • ...

Civil War Crossword Puzzle 2024-04-24

Civil War Crossword Puzzle crossword puzzle
Across
  1. The Northern group led by Abraham Lincoln
  2. The largest cause of the Civil War. What did they disagree on?
  3. General Jackson's nickname. "_______ Jackson"
  4. Women volunteered during the war to become what? (Hint: they helped wounded)
  5. Northern economic system during the war
  6. Who was elected President of the U.S. in 1860? (During the civil war)
  7. A major change in warfare that made a bullet spin
  8. The states that seceded from the union
  9. The writing that president Lincoln issued. Said "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."
Down
  1. Northern economic system during the war
  2. The Confederacy's plan
  3. What was the name Lincoln’s famous speech?
  4. Important women who helped open up the occupation of nursing to women
  5. The first battle of the civil war
  6. General of the confederacy
  7. To leave the union
  8. The bloodiest day of the war.
  9. The Union's plan

18 Clues: The Union's plan • To leave the union • The Confederacy's plan • General of the confederacy • The bloodiest day of the war. • The first battle of the civil war • The states that seceded from the union • Northern economic system during the war • Northern economic system during the war • The Northern group led by Abraham Lincoln • What was the name Lincoln’s famous speech? • ...

Year-Long Crossword 2025-06-04

Year-Long Crossword crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Branch of government responsible for interpreting laws, headed by the Supreme Court
  2. Second U.S. President and a leading figure in the independence movement
  3. Term used for emancipated African Americans after the Civil War
  4. The term for the United States government and northern states during the Civil War
  5. Historic 1776 document stating the American colonies' separation from Britain
  6. Virginia courthouse where Confederate General Lee surrendered to Grant
  7. Historic mission in San Antonio, site of a famous battle for Texan independence
  8. The act of southern states withdrawing from the Union before the Civil War
  9. Lincoln's 1863 proclamation freeing slaves in Confederate-held territory
  10. American colonists who remained loyal to the British Crown during the Revolution
  11. Co-leader of the Corps of Discovery expedition into the Louisiana Territory
  12. The Bill of ____ includes the first ten amendments to the Constitution
  13. American inventor, diplomat, writer, and a key Founding Father
  14. Manifest ______, the 19th-century belief in westward expansion of the U.S.
  15. System of government where power is divided between national and state levels
  16. System of forced labor and servitude, a primary cause of the Civil War
  17. Revolutionary War battle considered a major turning point for the Americans
  18. Ship that transported Pilgrims to Plymouth in 1620
  19. Growth of factories and manufacturing, especially in the northern states
  20. The war fought by American colonists for independence from Great Britain
  21. Massachusetts city, site of a famous Tea Party and Massacre
  22. The elected head of the executive branch of the U.S. government
  23. Vast territory purchased by the U.S. from France in 1803
  24. Official changes or additions made to the Constitution
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  1. Alliance of southern states that seceded from the U.S., leading to the Civil War
  2. Nickname for British soldiers, due to their uniform color
  3. Main author of the Declaration of Independence, later third U.S. President
  4. The movement to end slavery in the United States
  5. The advancing line of settlement separating wilderness from settled areas
  6. Site of the decisive battle where the British surrendered in the Revolutionary War
  7. 16th U.S. President who led the country through the Civil War
  8. Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army and first U.S. President
  9. Explored the Louisiana Purchase with Meriwether Lewis
  10. Colony established by the Pilgrims in present-day Massachusetts
  11. Early settlers who migrated westward into new territories
  12. A formal agreement between two or more countries, such as the one ending the Revolution
  13. Colonists who supported the movement for independence from Britain
  14. Religious group known for peace advocacy, influential in Pennsylvania
  15. The right to vote in political elections
  16. The legislative branch of the U.S. government, consisting of the Senate and House
  17. Pivotal Civil War battle in Pennsylvania and site of a famous Lincoln address
  18. Leading Union general during the Civil War, later became the 18th U.S. President
  19. Early European settlements in North America, often thirteen
  20. First U.S. Secretary of the Treasury and a key Federalist
  21. The period after the Civil War for rebuilding the South and readmitting states
  22. "No ______ without representation!" was a key grievance of the colonists
  23. First permanent English settlement in North America (1607)
  24. The supreme law of the United States, outlining the frame of government
  25. Rapid migration of people to a newly discovered goldfield, as in California
  26. Considered the "Father of the Constitution" and was the fourth U.S. President

50 Clues: The right to vote in political elections • The movement to end slavery in the United States • Ship that transported Pilgrims to Plymouth in 1620 • Explored the Louisiana Purchase with Meriwether Lewis • Official changes or additions made to the Constitution • Vast territory purchased by the U.S. from France in 1803 • ...

Crossword Puzzle 2016-04-20

Crossword Puzzle crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Political party that was led by Abraham Lincoln and resisted slavery.
  2. Time after the Civil War where the US repaired the damage from the war.
  3. Bloodiest day in American history. Lincoln used this Union victory to issue the Emancipation Proclamation.
  4. Helped free slaves adjust to life after slavery.
  5. Addition to the Constitution that let all men vote, no matter their race.
  6. Union victory which let the Union claim the Mississippi River.
Down
  1. President of the US post-Civil war and all through Reconstruction.
  2. General Robert E. Lee surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant and ended the war.
  3. First battle of the US Civil War.
  4. Led the Union Army.
  5. Addition to the Constitution that abolished slavery.
  6. Led the Confederate Army.
  7. Addition to the Constitution that abled all US citizens to have "equal protection of the laws" and "due process".
  8. President of the Confederate nation during the US Civil War.
  9. This battle turned the war around and was a major loss for the South.

15 Clues: Led the Union Army. • Led the Confederate Army. • First battle of the US Civil War. • Helped free slaves adjust to life after slavery. • Addition to the Constitution that abolished slavery. • President of the Confederate nation during the US Civil War. • Union victory which let the Union claim the Mississippi River. • ...