civil war Crossword Puzzles

Civil War 2025-05-19

Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. The Confederate president
  2. The first site of shots at the beginning of the civil war
  3. The group that wanted to end slavery
  4. What sport the soldiers played on their free time
  5. A nickname for the northern soldiers
  6. The Confederate capital
  7. The first major battle of the civil war
  8. The number 1 killer of the war
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  1. The union president during the civil war
  2. The document Lincoln signed to free slaves in the South
  3. The strategy that the union used to blockade the southern ports
  4. The confederate general who would be killed by his own soldiers
  5. Considered the turning point of the war
  6. The first state to secede from the union
  7. The union capital
  8. A nickname for the southern soldiers

16 Clues: The union capital • The Confederate capital • The Confederate president • The number 1 killer of the war • The group that wanted to end slavery • A nickname for the northern soldiers • A nickname for the southern soldiers • Considered the turning point of the war • The first major battle of the civil war • The union president during the civil war • ...

Civil War 2016-12-05

Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Confederate General during Sherman's march
  2. Union General of Fort Sumter
  3. Union General of The Battle of Gettysburg
  4. A ceremony to mark the commencement of a new president of the United States.
  5. A sword-like blade that may be fixed to the muzzle of a rifle for use in hand-to-hand fighting.
  6. Sumter Battle that started April 12, 1861.
  7. March to Sea took place November, 1864.
  8. Machine that sends electric signals over wires.
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  1. a series of speeches
  2. Campaign Battle that was in May, 1864.
  3. to leave army without permission
  4. Confederate General during Atlanta Campaign
  5. when part of the county leaves
  6. Confederate General of Fort Sumter
  7. Union General during Atlanta Campaign and Sherman's march to Sea.
  8. General branch of an army that engages in military combat on foot.
  9. Extra personnel sent to increase the strength of an army.
  10. of Gettysburg Happened on July 1, 1863.

18 Clues: a series of speeches • Union General of Fort Sumter • when part of the county leaves • to leave army without permission • Confederate General of Fort Sumter • Campaign Battle that was in May, 1864. • of Gettysburg Happened on July 1, 1863. • March to Sea took place November, 1864. • Union General of The Battle of Gettysburg • Confederate General during Sherman's march • ...

Civil War 2021-11-18

Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Southern senator, supported state rights
  2. Endorsed Compromise of 1850 to save Union
  3. Elected president in 1860
  4. responsible for Harper's Ferry
  5. Act written in 1854 by Stephen Douglas
  6. Most important fort located in Charleston
  7. Union military leader, joined at age of 9
  8. Responsible for the Wilmot Proviso
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  1. He started the war on April 12, 1861
  2. Surrendered to Davis
  3. conductor of the Underground Railroad
  4. Responsible for the Compromise of 1850
  5. Founder of the Republican Party
  6. Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin
  7. part of supreme court case on slavery
  8. Attacked in senate for antislavery speech
  9. Union military leader, became president
  10. Union military leader, didn't like Lincoln

18 Clues: Surrendered to Davis • Elected president in 1860 • Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin • responsible for Harper's Ferry • Founder of the Republican Party • Responsible for the Wilmot Proviso • He started the war on April 12, 1861 • conductor of the Underground Railroad • Responsible for the Compromise of 1850 • part of supreme court case on slavery • ...

Civil War 2023-11-08

Civil War crossword puzzle
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  1. Place where Lee surrendered.
  2. Confederacy's plan to win the war.(War of ___)
  3. Theater where Lincoln was assassinated
  4. Military strategy to destroy everything.
  5. Used "scorched earth policy" across Georgia.
  6. Bloodiest 1 day battle of Civil War.
  7. Searching and raiding for food.
  8. Cutting of resources to a place to force a surrender.
  9. Union plan to defeat the Confederacy.
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  1. Era after the Civil War (1865-1877)
  2. Used to smuggle goods passed the Union blockade.
  3. Right to not be held in jail without a trial.
  4. Amendment ending slavery.
  5. Forced military service.
  6. Last Confederate city on Mississippi River.
  7. Site of 3 day Battle in Pennsylvania.
  8. Tennessee battle fought for control of railroad lines.
  9. Fort that guards the east side of Mobile Bay.

18 Clues: Forced military service. • Amendment ending slavery. • Place where Lee surrendered. • Searching and raiding for food. • Era after the Civil War (1865-1877) • Bloodiest 1 day battle of Civil War. • Site of 3 day Battle in Pennsylvania. • Union plan to defeat the Confederacy. • Theater where Lincoln was assassinated • Military strategy to destroy everything. • ...

Civil War 2023-12-01

Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Important Proclomation
  2. Conservative
  3. Killed Abraham Lincoln
  4. War between the Union and Confederacy
  5. Capital of The United States
  6. Liberal
  7. Compromise
  8. 16th President
  9. A place between two states
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  1. 18th US President
  2. Military Strategy by Winfield Scott
  3. Portion of the country that remained loyal to the federal government
  4. Commander of the Confederate Army
  5. North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia
  6. Famous Battle
  7. Skylar
  8. Political Union of the Southern States
  9. You pick it

18 Clues: Skylar • Liberal • Compromise • You pick it • Conservative • Famous Battle • 16th President • 18th US President • Important Proclomation • Killed Abraham Lincoln • A place between two states • Capital of The United States • Commander of the Confederate Army • Military Strategy by Winfield Scott • War between the Union and Confederacy • Political Union of the Southern States • ...

civil war 2023-03-06

civil war crossword puzzle
Across
  1. made stuff cost more
  2. to leave
  3. former slave
  4. the president of united states
  5. got rid if slavery
  6. a plan to squeeze the Confederate
  7. people that had did labor with out pay
  8. where the first battle was
  9. the name of the battle
  10. a place to cut cut off the Confederate to get goods
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  1. gave citizenship to any one born in the united states
  2. where they allow slaves during the war
  3. helped slave escaped on a boat
  4. the first to secede
  5. became a president after the war
  6. states that border the slave states
  7. gave African american the right to vote
  8. the group of people that won the war

18 Clues: to leave • former slave • got rid if slavery • the first to secede • made stuff cost more • the name of the battle • where the first battle was • helped slave escaped on a boat • the president of united states • became a president after the war • a plan to squeeze the Confederate • states that border the slave states • the group of people that won the war • ...

civil war 2025-04-15

civil war crossword puzzle
Across
  1. a big battle during 1861
  2. document that frees slaves in confederate states
  3. deaths and other unfortunate events
  4. withdraw from alliance
  5. commander of the union troops
  6. major cause of death during the war
  7. one side of the war (confederate)
  8. Women that ran underground railway against slavery
  9. commander of the Confederate troops
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  1. president for the union
  2. war support by civilians
  3. form of transportation of troops,resources, etc
  4. people that are forced to work
  5. form of communication between commanders to set strategic military strategy
  6. one of the sides of the war (union)
  7. where most of the battles took place
  8. weapons used during the war
  9. used for naval battles and transportation alternative to land

18 Clues: withdraw from alliance • president for the union • war support by civilians • a big battle during 1861 • weapons used during the war • commander of the union troops • people that are forced to work • one side of the war (confederate) • one of the sides of the war (union) • deaths and other unfortunate events • major cause of death during the war • ...

Civil War 2025-02-21

Civil War crossword puzzle
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  1. The event that devestated Georgia
  2. People property
  3. The southern economy was based on
  4. Person who assassinated Lincoln (Last Name)
  5. First seceding state
  6. Confederate commander (First Name)
  7. A battle that split the confederacy in half
  8. What was the north’s army called
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  1. Turning battle of the war
  2. President of the confederacy (Last Name)
  3. The first battle
  4. People trying to end slavery
  5. One of the first major battles won by confederacy
  6. The rebels
  7. The 7th state to blank was Texas
  8. Stonewall
  9. A tool that transports supplies
  10. Union commander (Last Name)

18 Clues: Stonewall • The rebels • People property • The first battle • First seceding state • Turning battle of the war • Union commander (Last Name) • People trying to end slavery • A tool that transports supplies • The 7th state to blank was Texas • What was the north’s army called • The event that devestated Georgia • The southern economy was based on • Confederate commander (First Name) • ...

civil war 2022-03-08

civil war crossword puzzle
Across
  1. represented the southern army and wore grey.
  2. He planned a slave rebellion and was hanged for treason.
  3. In 1863 this declared all slaves in the rebelling states were free.
  4. The capital of the Confederate states of America during the Civil War was.
  5. Who was the president of the Confederate states of America?
  6. The capital of the United States of America during the Civil War was.
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  1. The commanding general of the Union army was.
  2. Who was the president of the United States during the Civil War?
  3. represented the northern states and wore blue.
  4. Who said, "A house divided against itself cannot stand"?
  5. The single bloodiest DAY in the Civil War took place here.
  6. of these was NOT a border state during the Civil War?
  7. The commanding general of the Confederate army was.
  8. Which state was not part of the Union?
  9. Which state was not part of the Confederacy?

15 Clues: Which state was not part of the Union? • represented the southern army and wore grey. • Which state was not part of the Confederacy? • The commanding general of the Union army was. • represented the northern states and wore blue. • The commanding general of the Confederate army was. • of these was NOT a border state during the Civil War? • ...

Civil War Crossword 2021-10-14

Civil War Crossword crossword puzzle
Across
  1. first clash of ironclad naval vessels.
  2. referred to as the “South” in the Civil War
  3. a battle that put a end to Robert E. Lee’s plan to invade the north.
  4. early strategy to economically strangle the Confederacy
  5. commander of the Union army
  6. method employed by the Confederacy during the Civil War to convince Great Britain and France to support the South
  7. bloodiest single-day battle that resulted in the Union’s victory.
  8. slave states that did not secede from the Union.
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  1. first major battle of the civil war
  2. site of surrender of the Confederate forces
  3. an actor who assassinated Lincoln.
  4. a general of the confederate states
  5. referred to as the “North” in the Civil War
  6. document that proclaimed the freedom of slaves.
  7. a war fought between citizens in the same country

15 Clues: commander of the Union army • an actor who assassinated Lincoln. • first major battle of the civil war • a general of the confederate states • first clash of ironclad naval vessels. • site of surrender of the Confederate forces • referred to as the “South” in the Civil War • referred to as the “North” in the Civil War • document that proclaimed the freedom of slaves. • ...

Civil War 2023-02-16

Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. some one who like the thinning of ending slavery.
  2. The lows age percentage of the men in war.
  3. Surrenders to Ulysses S. Grant
  4. The union wanted to gain support from the
  5. 400,000 died for what in the war
  6. The causes of the civil war
  7. what are some roles children played in war?
  8. a term for latin that mean "before the war"
  9. Who assassinated Lincoln.
  10. How many women served incognito?
  11. what was General Winfield plan for the north.
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  1. who won the Gettysburg battle
  2. The leader for union at the Gettysburg battle.
  3. The south was fighting.
  4. the date july 1-3 1863 of which battle
  5. The Confederate leader at the battle of Gerryburg
  6. Tan uniform, made out of whatever was availables
  7. who was the most famous civil war nurse.
  8. Army of the Potomac was moving through Virginia.
  9. Blue uniform, similar across the soldiers

20 Clues: The south was fighting. • Who assassinated Lincoln. • The causes of the civil war • who won the Gettysburg battle • Surrenders to Ulysses S. Grant • 400,000 died for what in the war • How many women served incognito? • the date july 1-3 1863 of which battle • who was the most famous civil war nurse. • The union wanted to gain support from the • ...

Civil War 2013-01-17

Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Name of the city Sherman did not burn
  2. South Carolina was first state to do this from the Union
  3. Name of the confederate prison where 13,000 died
  4. The confederates tried to capture Washington DC in this battle
  5. Representative who was against secession
  6. Name of the southern army
  7. Name of the fort that was attacked and where the 1st shot of the Civil War was fired
  8. Name of the northern army
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  1. Name of the general who led the march to the sea
  2. Name of the President during the Civil War
  3. Freed blacks worked on plantations and received a "share" of the profits
  4. Freed all the slaves in the Confederacy
  5. Belief that individual states should have the right to determine the laws that they should obey NOT federal law
  6. Name of the bloodiest battle in GA
  7. Lincoln ordered this to cut off trade in the South
  8. The major crop grown in the south
  9. What an addition to the Constitution is called
  10. Name of the government organization set up to help freed slaves

18 Clues: Name of the southern army • Name of the northern army • The major crop grown in the south • Name of the bloodiest battle in GA • Name of the city Sherman did not burn • Freed all the slaves in the Confederacy • Representative who was against secession • Name of the President during the Civil War • What an addition to the Constitution is called • ...

Civil War 2016-12-05

Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Confederate General during Atlanta Campaign
  2. Confederate General of Fort Sumter
  3. Confederate General during Sherman's march
  4. General branch of an army that engages in military combat on foot.
  5. Machine that sends electric signals over wires.
  6. Union General of The Battle of Gettysburg
  7. A sword-like blade that may be fixed to the muzzle of a rifle for use in hand-to-hand fighting.
  8. A ceremony to mark the commencement of a new president of the United States.
  9. when part of the county leaves
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  1. to leave army without permission
  2. Extra personnel sent to increase the strength of an army.
  3. March to Sea took place November, 1864.
  4. Campaign Battle that was in May, 1864.
  5. Union General of Fort Sumter
  6. of Gettysburg Happened on July 1, 1863.
  7. Sumter Battle that started April 12, 1861.
  8. Union General during Atlanta Campaign and Sherman's march to Sea.
  9. a series of speeches

18 Clues: a series of speeches • Union General of Fort Sumter • when part of the county leaves • to leave army without permission • Confederate General of Fort Sumter • Campaign Battle that was in May, 1864. • March to Sea took place November, 1864. • of Gettysburg Happened on July 1, 1863. • Union General of The Battle of Gettysburg • Confederate General during Sherman's march • ...

Civil War 2023-12-01

Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Compromise
  2. Liberal
  3. You pick it
  4. Important Proclomation
  5. North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia
  6. Killed Abraham Lincoln
  7. Forced to work
  8. Famous Battle
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  1. Political Union of the Southern States
  2. Portion of the country that remained loyal to the federal government
  3. 18th US President
  4. Commander of the Confederate Army
  5. Military Strategy by Winfield Scott
  6. 16th President
  7. War between the Union and Confederacy
  8. A place between two states
  9. Conservative
  10. Capital of The United States

18 Clues: Liberal • Compromise • You pick it • Conservative • Famous Battle • 16th President • Forced to work • 18th US President • Important Proclomation • Killed Abraham Lincoln • A place between two states • Capital of The United States • Commander of the Confederate Army • Military Strategy by Winfield Scott • War between the Union and Confederacy • Political Union of the Southern States • ...

civil war 2024-05-03

civil war crossword puzzle
Across
  1. What is the genre?
  2. What is a person, who is against war and violence, called?
  3. What is the groups job?
  4. Who is the director?
  5. What is mistake in præterium?
  6. Who is the young Photograf?
  7. What is a word for withdrawing from an organization?
  8. What city starts is in?
  9. How many bodys do they drive over?
  10. Who is the main character?
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  1. What alliance is texas a part of?
  2. What is in Charlottesville?
  3. What was the name of the President of the United States during the Civil War (1861-1865)?
  4. Where is the asia guy from?
  5. What begs the president for?
  6. What is the opposite of War?
  7. What is the movies sub genre?
  8. In what country is the movie set in?

18 Clues: What is the genre? • Who is the director? • What is the groups job? • What city starts is in? • Who is the main character? • What is in Charlottesville? • Where is the asia guy from? • Who is the young Photograf? • What begs the president for? • What is the opposite of War? • What is mistake in præterium? • What is the movies sub genre? • What alliance is texas a part of? • ...

Civil war 2025-04-14

Civil war crossword puzzle
Across
  1. a big battle during 1861
  2. document that frees slaves in confederate states
  3. deaths and other unfortunate events
  4. withdraw from alliance
  5. commander of the union troops
  6. major cause of death during the war
  7. one side of the war (confederate)
  8. Women that ran underground railway against slavery
  9. commander of the Confederate troops
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  1. president for the union
  2. war support by civilians
  3. form of transportation of troops,resources, etc
  4. people that are forced to work
  5. form of communication between commanders to set strategic military strategy
  6. one of the sides of the war (union)
  7. where most of the battles took place
  8. weapons used during the war
  9. used for naval battles and transportation alternative to land

18 Clues: withdraw from alliance • president for the union • war support by civilians • a big battle during 1861 • weapons used during the war • commander of the union troops • people that are forced to work • one side of the war (confederate) • one of the sides of the war (union) • deaths and other unfortunate events • major cause of death during the war • ...

Civil War 2013-04-10

Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Riots broke out in this city to protest the fact that the wealthy could pay a fee to avoid military service. _________ _________ City.
  2. Who's military genius and personality is often credited with holding the Confederate Army together?
  3. What side of the war looked like it was going to win.
  4. Where was the battle of Olustee.
  5. The second great battle of the Civil War, first in Missouri.
  6. Which General led the March to the Sea.
  7. When states succeeded from the Union, they would join together to create their own. What was the new Union's name._________ _____ of America
  8. Which side was against high tariffs.
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  1. How many sides fought in the Civil War.
  2. What effected our money supply in the War.
  3. More men died from _______ than from the battle.
  4. Worst Confederate prison is in __________ Georgia.
  5. This state was admitted to the Union on June 20th.
  6. ________ Bank Act was established in 1863.
  7. The South suffered ______ in most staple food products.
  8. If you were captured you might be sent to a ______.
  9. First superintendent of women nurses.
  10. Did the Confederation make their own money. (True or False)

18 Clues: Where was the battle of Olustee. • Which side was against high tariffs. • First superintendent of women nurses. • How many sides fought in the Civil War. • Which General led the March to the Sea. • What effected our money supply in the War. • ________ Bank Act was established in 1863. • More men died from _______ than from the battle. • ...

Civil War 2022-05-31

Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. A nickname given to people in the South supporting the Confederate States.
  2. Crackers eaten by Civil War soldiers made from flour, water, and salt.
  3. a side that supported slavery
  4. large weapons like cannons
  5. Line A boundary or border that split the free states from the slave states. It went between Pennsylvania to the north and Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware to the south.
  6. An army of citizens used during emergencies.
  7. The northern states of the United States, also called the Union.
  8. The rebuilding of war torn southern states so they could be readmitted into the Union after the Civil War.
  9. A long gun with a smooth bore that soldiers shot from the shoulder.
  10. A long blade or knife attached to the end of
  11. A canvas bag that many Civil War soldiers used to carry their food.
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  1. When the southern states chose to leave the United States and to no longer be a part of the country.
  2. a person who wanted to get rid of slavery
  3. A large farm in the southern United States. Before the Civil War many of the workers on plantations were enslaved.
  4. When a person is murdered for political
  5. A nickname for southern whites who supported the Republican Party.
  6. Soldiers that fight and travel by foot.
  7. An attempt to stop people and supplies from going in or out of a port
  8. a side that didn’t support slavery

19 Clues: large weapons like cannons • a side that supported slavery • a side that didn’t support slavery • When a person is murdered for political • Soldiers that fight and travel by foot. • a person who wanted to get rid of slavery • An army of citizens used during emergencies. • A long blade or knife attached to the end of • ...

Civil War 2023-05-11

Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. The amendment that states the right to vote can't be taken away based on race, color, or condition of servitude.
  2. era that focused on rebuilding the South after the civil war
  3. Group of people who tried to deny African American rights through fear and violence
  4. Term used for NOrtherners who made money off the Souths misfortune
  5. side of war that had better technology and numbers
  6. General of the North
  7. side of the war that opposed slavery
  8. Unfair laws in the south
  9. General of the south
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  1. The act of separating people based on race or ethnicity
  2. act that pardoned southerners and allowed them tovote and hold office
  3. President during civil war
  4. side of the war that supported slavery
  5. Ended in a draw, but let Lincoln sign Emancipation Proclaimation
  6. Laws made to control African Americans
  7. President after Lincolns assassination
  8. Battle ended in Union Victory after month long siege of city
  9. Other name for Battle of Antietam
  10. Law that required Northerners to return runaway slaves to the south

19 Clues: General of the North • General of the south • Unfair laws in the south • President during civil war • Other name for Battle of Antietam • side of the war that opposed slavery • side of the war that supported slavery • Laws made to control African Americans • President after Lincolns assassination • side of war that had better technology and numbers • ...

Civil War 2023-05-10

Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Law that made slavery open to the western territories
  2. Cannot escape, not free to live
  3. Lincoln's famous "Speech"
  4. enlist into the army
  5. Thomas Jefferson's land deal with France
  6. states' right to free rule and law
  7. Anti-slavery advocate
  8. split of the Northern and the Southern American states
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  1. Era/Time after the Civil War
  2. nickname for Northern Union soldiers
  3. To separate or leave
  4. President of the Confederate States of America
  5. Set Free
  6. 16th President of The United States of America
  7. nickname for Southern Confederate soldiers
  8. Northern States
  9. Southern States
  10. people believing they are superior than others based on their skin color

18 Clues: Set Free • Northern States • Southern States • To separate or leave • enlist into the army • Anti-slavery advocate • Lincoln's famous "Speech" • Era/Time after the Civil War • Cannot escape, not free to live • states' right to free rule and law • nickname for Northern Union soldiers • Thomas Jefferson's land deal with France • nickname for Southern Confederate soldiers • ...

Civil War 2023-10-30

Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Slave who went to free state
  2. War between North and South U.S.
  3. 16th President
  4. States that seceded from Union
  5. 13th President
  6. Confederate president's term length
  7. Fort where Civil War began
  8. 15th President
  9. ____ Sovereignty
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  1. Three parties coming together to form one
  2. ____ Slave Act
  3. ____ of 1850
  4. 12th President
  5. 14th President
  6. Lincoln's Senate opponent
  7. Withdrawing formally from the Union
  8. Bleeding ____
  9. Leader to seize Harpers Ferry

18 Clues: ____ of 1850 • Bleeding ____ • ____ Slave Act • 12th President • 14th President • 16th President • 13th President • 15th President • ____ Sovereignty • Lincoln's Senate opponent • Fort where Civil War began • Slave who went to free state • Leader to seize Harpers Ferry • States that seceded from Union • War between North and South U.S. • Withdrawing formally from the Union • ...

Civil War 2023-11-13

Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. First major battle of the civil war, fought near washington DC
  2. Democrats in the north who wanted to end the war and make peace with the south
  3. Confederate general
  4. soldiers on horseback and these are the eyes and ears of the major army
  5. bullet with a hollow base, shot further and more accurate that a musket
  6. warships covered n iron plates to protect it
  7. an executive order given by lincoln ordering the freeing of slaves in the confederate states
  8. Bloodiest battle in american history
  9. a federal fort located in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina
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  1. Union general
  2. Chief justice that ruled in the dred scott case
  3. Nickname for the union
  4. the draft requiring people to serve in the military
  5. an african american who had been a slave and moved to his master to a state where slavery was illegal
  6. Bloodiest day in US history
  7. Destroy the south’s economy so they are forced to end the war
  8. 16th president of the USA
  9. the union plan to shut off all southern trade and ruin their economy of their cotton trade

18 Clues: Union general • Confederate general • Nickname for the union • 16th president of the USA • Bloodiest day in US history • Bloodiest battle in american history • warships covered n iron plates to protect it • Chief justice that ruled in the dred scott case • the draft requiring people to serve in the military • Destroy the south’s economy so they are forced to end the war • ...

Civil 2021-04-29

Civil crossword puzzle
Across
  1. the underfunded, understaffed organization tasked with socially reconstructing the south
  2. Southern states during the Civil War
  3. this type of factor would draw you to a new country
  4. this term was used to describe the divide between the Northern and Southern sections of the country
  5. this amendment freed enslaved people
  6. this amendment gave formerly enslaved people the right to vote
  7. this clause said that if THIS PERSON could vote before 1867, then you could vote
  8. this new communication technology greatly helped the North during the Civil War
  9. Northern states during the Civil War
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  1. tests given to people in the south to see if they were "smart enough to vote"
  2. ways southern states
  3. this enslaved man led a revolt against white plantation owners in the South (Nat ____)
  4. Vice President of the Confederacy who gave the "Cornerstone Speech"
  5. a fee you had to pay before you could vote
  6. American President during the Civil War
  7. this man wanted to arm enslaved people, so he stormed Harper's Ferry and was hanged
  8. the north had many more miles of these, making them more able to provide troops and supplies
  9. this man was president after Lincoln (Andrew __)
  10. the time period after the civil war
  11. this state has put in place many problematic voting laws that we talked about in class
  12. this amendment gave formally enslaved people citizenship
  13. this type of factor would make you want to leave a country

22 Clues: ways southern states • the time period after the civil war • Southern states during the Civil War • this amendment freed enslaved people • Northern states during the Civil War • American President during the Civil War • a fee you had to pay before you could vote • this man was president after Lincoln (Andrew __) • this type of factor would draw you to a new country • ...

Civil War Crossword 2019-01-29

Civil War Crossword crossword puzzle
Across
  1. President of the United States during the civil war
  2. Beecher who wrote “Uncle Toms Cavin”
  3. A person who wanted to end slavery
  4. First battle of the civil war
  5. The United States of America during the civil war
  6. Dred Scott sued for his...
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  1. Focus in the interest of ones region
  2. prohibited slavery in states on the north of the 36’30 latitude line
  3. Bloodiest battle of the Civil war
  4. last battle of the civil war
  5. bloodiest day in American History

11 Clues: Dred Scott sued for his... • last battle of the civil war • First battle of the civil war • Bloodiest battle of the Civil war • bloodiest day in American History • A person who wanted to end slavery • Focus in the interest of ones region • Beecher who wrote “Uncle Toms Cavin” • The United States of America during the civil war • ...

AME Civil War 2023-04-25

AME Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. the side the Union was fighting for
  2. major Union general of the Civil War
  3. first state to secede from the Union
  4. bloodiest battle of the Civil War
  5. how long did the Civil War last
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  1. Union's plan to defeat the Confederacy
  2. War the war between the Confederates and the Union
  3. how many Confederate states
  4. major Confederate general of the Civil War
  5. Court House the courthouse where the Civil War ended

10 Clues: how many Confederate states • how long did the Civil War last • bloodiest battle of the Civil War • the side the Union was fighting for • major Union general of the Civil War • first state to secede from the Union • Union's plan to defeat the Confederacy • major Confederate general of the Civil War • War the war between the Confederates and the Union • ...

AAC Civil War Crossword Puzzle 2022-03-05

AAC Civil War Crossword Puzzle crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Laws limiting the rights of african americans passed by southern government after the civil war
  2. Near mexico coastline
  3. A person who supported the union cause during the civil war
  4. One of the sixteen black people to get a congressional medal of honor during the civil war
  5. When missouri was made a slave state and maine was made a free state
  6. A tejano that supported texas and the confederacy in the civil war.
  7. People who take the law into their own hand
  8. A formerly enslaved person
  9. People would focus on what benefitted their region rather that a nation as a whole.
  10. pass The union needed fort griffin but the confederate caught the union soldiers and won the battle
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  1. A battle that took place before dawn on new year’s day, 1863.
  2. Allowed settlers to vote if they wanted slavery or not
  3. A war between union and confederacy
  4. People who wanted to end slavery.
  5. Means to refuse or declare it wrong.
  6. President of texas succession convention
  7. Buying convits so they could treat them however they want
  8. A leader who refused to take oath
  9. Cheap source of labor to work in cotton fields
  10. The position that the federal government should not interfere with the state's exercising their constitutional power.

20 Clues: Near mexico coastline • A formerly enslaved person • People who wanted to end slavery. • A leader who refused to take oath • A war between union and confederacy • Means to refuse or declare it wrong. • President of texas succession convention • People who take the law into their own hand • Cheap source of labor to work in cotton fields • ...

The Nation Grows and Divides 2025-03-19

The Nation Grows and Divides crossword puzzle
Across
  1. 18 minute war against Mexico and won by Texas
  2. How families got to Oregon
  3. Land acquired for building railroad
  4. Mountains making westward expansion easier
  5. Warned other Texans not to fight Mexico
  6. Leader of the Union Army
  7. Had more railroads, soldiers, and factories
  8. People who work to end slavery
  9. Land the U.S. got in 1848
  10. Captured by the U.S. ending the Mexican War
  11. Led the Texans at the Alamo
  12. Large migration to California to find gold
  13. What happened to President Lincoln
  14. 180 Texas Soldiers fought for independence
  15. Led the Mexicans at the Alamo
  16. Became a large country after the Mexican War
  17. Slaves who run away must be returned
  18. Capital of the Confederate States
  19. President in 1861 from poor family
  20. Another name for the U.S.
  21. Major reason for Civil War
  22. Signed by the U.S. and Mexico in 1853
  23. Became the border between Texas and Mexico
  24. Man responsible for settling Texas
  25. Became a Republic when gaining its independence
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  1. Had many good generals and soldiers
  2. Became President in 1845
  3. Crop grown on plantations
  4. War between Texas and Mexico over border
  5. Freed the slaves
  6. Former slave who helped free others
  7. Where the Civil War started
  8. What the U.S. gave to families moving to Oregon
  9. Texas Army General who said Remember the Alamo
  10. U.S. rules land from Atlantic to Pacific
  11. Pulled wagons to Oregon so families could live there
  12. War between the northern and southern states
  13. Mexican Friend of Stephen F. Austin
  14. Route followed from Great Plains to Rocky Mts.
  15. Became official state in 1850
  16. Parts of this country were included in Oregon
  17. President Lincoln's wish after Civil War
  18. Leader of the Confederate Army
  19. Very large farms owned by southerners
  20. Where most civil war battles were fought

45 Clues: Freed the slaves • Became President in 1845 • Leader of the Union Army • Crop grown on plantations • Land the U.S. got in 1848 • Another name for the U.S. • How families got to Oregon • Major reason for Civil War • Where the Civil War started • Led the Texans at the Alamo • Became official state in 1850 • Led the Mexicans at the Alamo • People who work to end slavery • ...

civil war 2023-09-19

civil war crossword puzzle
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  1. Davis president of the confederate army during the civil war
  2. inaugural address the end of the brutal four-year Civil War within sight, many people on both sides felt anger and frustration toward their fellow Americans. Lincoln attempted to rise above the divisiveness and start the process of healing
  3. commander of the confederate army during the civil war.
  4. an American soldier, businessman, educator, and author.
  5. 1863 union gains control over Mississippi confederacy split in two.
  6. union General William T Sherman surrounded for six weeks before capturing the vitally important center.
  7. agree to give
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  1. Jackson general officer in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War
  2. proclamation the announcement made by President Lincoln during the Civil War on September 22, 1862
  3. corpus a writ requiring a person under arrest to come before a judge or into court.
  4. Sumter a sea fort in Charleston, South Carolina, notable for two battles of the American Civil War.
  5. burgs a three-day battle the bloodiest of the entire civil war.

12 Clues: agree to give • an American soldier, businessman, educator, and author. • commander of the confederate army during the civil war. • Davis president of the confederate army during the civil war • 1863 union gains control over Mississippi confederacy split in two. • burgs a three-day battle the bloodiest of the entire civil war. • ...

The Civil War 2021-02-17

The Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Differences between the North and the South
  2. President during the Civil War
  3. A series of routes that lead a slave to freedom
  4. The attack of this started the Civil War
  5. Very bloody battle of US citizens
  6. _____ Slave Act
  7. "big guy" in the White House
  8. _____ Brown killed many pro-slavery people.
  9. Elephant symbol
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  1. Louisiana and South Carolina were part of this
  2. A new free state
  3. What political party had a clear platform on abolishing slavery?
  4. US land that wasn't settled yet
  5. To be a state, I request for _____.
  6. A new slave state
  7. The Legislative Branch
  8. A kid born in AZ is a US ______.
  9. Main issue that started the Civil War
  10. Most Northerners were part of this
  11. A political party's beliefs

20 Clues: _____ Slave Act • Elephant symbol • A new free state • A new slave state • The Legislative Branch • A political party's beliefs • "big guy" in the White House • President during the Civil War • US land that wasn't settled yet • A kid born in AZ is a US ______. • Very bloody battle of US citizens • Most Northerners were part of this • To be a state, I request for _____. • ...

Civil War (Brandon Salumbides) Mangilao 2017-02-13

Civil War (Brandon Salumbides) Mangilao crossword puzzle
Across
  1. the amendment after the 12th
  2. he assassinated president Lincoln
  3. president of the confederate states
  4. the plan to defeat the confederate
  5. resigning from the army due to a medical problem
  6. the opposite of the Union
  7. bloodiest 3 day battle happened here
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  1. one of the bloodiest wars in the civil war
  2. the president during the civil war
  3. an act that helped abolish slavery
  4. to not be apart of a country anymore
  5. general of the union army
  6. the march to the sea
  7. the start of the battle of Gettysburg
  8. virginia but west of it
  9. where Lee surrenders
  10. what started the civil war?
  11. the right to a trial to prove something wrong
  12. leading a group to victory
  13. the general of the confederate army

20 Clues: the march to the sea • where Lee surrenders • virginia but west of it • general of the union army • the opposite of the Union • leading a group to victory • what started the civil war? • the amendment after the 12th • he assassinated president Lincoln • the president during the civil war • an act that helped abolish slavery • the plan to defeat the confederate • ...

BlicksReconstructionPuzzle 2024-04-29

BlicksReconstructionPuzzle crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Unfair treatment because of race
  2. Southerners who supported Reconstruction
  3. Newly freed slaves
  4. Amendment that said race doesn't deny voting rights
  5. State and local laws controlling the rights of freedmen
  6. Organization to prevent African American civil rights
  7. Amendment that made slavery illegal
  8. Vice President during the Civil War
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  1. 16th President
  2. Northerners who moved south after the Civil War
  3. The period after the Civil War
  4. Amendment that gave citizenship to people born in the U.S.
  5. Southern democrats who worked against Reconstruction
  6. A payment required to vote

14 Clues: 16th President • Newly freed slaves • A payment required to vote • The period after the Civil War • Unfair treatment because of race • Amendment that made slavery illegal • Vice President during the Civil War • Southerners who supported Reconstruction • Northerners who moved south after the Civil War • Amendment that said race doesn't deny voting rights • ...

Emancipation Proclamation 2021-11-17

Emancipation Proclamation crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Lincoln
  2. abolitionist
  3. Man's best friend
  4. slaves
  5. Douglass
  6. civil war
  7. between north and south
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  1. massachusetts regiment
  2. who is not enslaved
  3. black union soilders unit
  4. of the civil war era
  5. proclamation
  6. the president enforced

13 Clues: slaves • Lincoln • Douglass • civil war • abolitionist • proclamation • Man's best friend • who is not enslaved • of the civil war era • the president enforced • massachusetts regiment • between north and south • black union soilders unit

The Civil War (Refer to historical figures by their last names) 2025-05-20

The Civil War (Refer to historical figures by their last names) crossword puzzle
Across
  1. President of the Confederate States of America
  2. Site of a major three-day battle in Pennsylvania, 1863
  3. Act of states withdrawing from the Union
  4. The southern states that seceded
  5. 16th U.S. President during the Civil War
  6. Famous conductor on the Underground Railroad
  7. Founder of the American Red Cross, Civil War nurse
  8. 2 words: slave states that remained in the Union
  9. "King" crop of the Southern economy
  10. What you do when you meet expectations at RMS
  11. Peculiar institution that was a root cause of the war
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  1. Union siege that gave control of the Mississippi River
  2. Bloodiest single-day battle in U.S. history
  3. Abolitionist and former slave who advised Lincoln
  4. State that you are in right now
  5. Armored warship, like the Monitor or Merrimack
  6. Union naval strategy to cut off Confederate trade
  7. Commander of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia
  8. Union general famous for his "March to the Sea"
  9. Union general who became commander of all Union armies
  10. Proclamation freeing slaves in Confederate states
  11. He teaches you history
  12. Fort where the first shots of the Civil War were fired
  13. The real name of your favorite baby in this class
  14. Movement to end slavery
  15. The northern side during the Civil War
  16. Confederate general Thomas Jackson's famous nickname

27 Clues: He teaches you history • Movement to end slavery • State that you are in right now • The southern states that seceded • "King" crop of the Southern economy • The northern side during the Civil War • Act of states withdrawing from the Union • 16th U.S. President during the Civil War • Bloodiest single-day battle in U.S. history • Famous conductor on the Underground Railroad • ...

Civil War 2024-04-30

Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. The 16th President
  2. Leader of the confederate party
  3. He assassinated Abraham Lincoln
  4. Led the union army
  5. It said all slaves shall be freed
  6. First battle of the civil war
  7. founded by Clara barton
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  1. One of the conductors of the underground railroad
  2. Lincoln gave a speech during the civil in gettysburg
  3. considered turning point in the war
  4. raided harpers ferry
  5. founded the north star newspaper
  6. Bloodiest battle of the civil war
  7. Movement to end slavery
  8. Led the confederate army

15 Clues: The 16th President • Led the union army • raided harpers ferry • Movement to end slavery • founded by Clara barton • Led the confederate army • First battle of the civil war • Leader of the confederate party • He assassinated Abraham Lincoln • founded the north star newspaper • Bloodiest battle of the civil war • It said all slaves shall be freed • considered turning point in the war • ...

Civil War 2021-10-11

Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. secessionist states that opposed the Union
  2. capital of Confederates during the war
  3. a plan that included forming a naval blockade off the coast and an attack down the Mississippi
  4. warship used by Union navy in first notable battle between ironclad warships
  5. 16th U.S. president
  6. battle that stopped Confederate momentum and prevented intervention by the Europeans
  7. Confederate general that fought in Antietam and Gettysburg
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  1. war between northern and southern states
  2. Civil war’s bloodiest one-day battle
  3. name that referred to the northern states
  4. Union capital during the war
  5. system that required men to participate in the war
  6. first major land battle of civil war
  7. diplomacy strategy to withhold cotton exports to bring Europe into the war
  8. states middle ground of the Civil War

15 Clues: 16th U.S. president • Union capital during the war • Civil war’s bloodiest one-day battle • first major land battle of civil war • states middle ground of the Civil War • capital of Confederates during the war • war between northern and southern states • name that referred to the northern states • secessionist states that opposed the Union • ...

Civil War Crossword 2014-11-19

Civil War Crossword crossword puzzle
Across
  1. The northern side of the Civil War
  2. Lincolns main political rival
  3. Stood his ground in Fort Sumter
  4. Abolitionist Extremist
  5. The political party that was mainly anti slavery
  6. African American who escaped slavery, became famous and freed others
  7. Beat an abolitionist man with a cane
  8. Creator of the cotton gin
  9. The southern side of the Civil War
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  1. Secret society for freeing slaves
  2. President of the Confederacy
  3. The Great Compromiser
  4. Lincoln's Vice President
  5. What the south called northerners
  6. People against slavery
  7. Where the Republican convention for presidency was held
  8. President from Illinois during the Civil War
  9. Where slaves mainly worked
  10. Famous fort where a certain major held his ground despite overpowering numbers
  11. The political party that was pro slavery
  12. Heart of the South

21 Clues: Heart of the South • The Great Compromiser • People against slavery • Abolitionist Extremist • Lincoln's Vice President • Creator of the cotton gin • Where slaves mainly worked • President of the Confederacy • Lincolns main political rival • Stood his ground in Fort Sumter • Secret society for freeing slaves • What the south called northerners • The northern side of the Civil War • ...

Civil War-Arthur Kallay 2019-12-02

Civil War-Arthur Kallay crossword puzzle
Across
  1. first shots of the Civil War
  2. President of the Union
  3. conflict between the Union and the Confederacy
  4. assassin of Abraham Lincoln
  5. the south's largest crop; production was made efficient with slaves
  6. Lee surrenders his troops
  7. capital of the Confederate states
  8. President of the confederacy
  9. major turning point of the war; Lee loses half of his army; overall bloodiest engagement in the war
  10. first Union general; fired by Lincoln after the Battle of Bull Run
  11. slave states that were loyal to the Union
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  1. confederate surprise attack halted by Grant
  2. Government randomly drawing names for participation in war
  3. promise to end slavery; made the Civil War into a war to free slaves
  4. plan to create blockades to "strangle" the south into defeat
  5. name for Sherman's campaign from Atlanta to Savannah; attempts to deliver a finishing blow to the South
  6. the practice of cutting off limbs; often used as medical care during the Civil War
  7. single bloodiest day of the war; 24,000 casualties
  8. notorious POW camp in Georgia; known for overcrowding and poor conditions
  9. the broad term for production and manufacturing; the north's advantage
  10. fierce confederate general; provided reinforcements in the Battle of Bull Run
  11. the south's ties to Europe and hopes that England would intervene

22 Clues: President of the Union • Lee surrenders his troops • assassin of Abraham Lincoln • first shots of the Civil War • President of the confederacy • capital of the Confederate states • slave states that were loyal to the Union • confederate surprise attack halted by Grant • conflict between the Union and the Confederacy • single bloodiest day of the war; 24,000 casualties • ...

Civil War 2023-01-05

Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. is a person who sought to abolish slavery during the 19th century
  2. a Civil War soldier's catch-all
  3. a heavy, ankle-high shoe or boot
  4. is a largely historical term used by Southerners to describe opportunistic Northerners who came to the Southern states after the American Civil War
  5. foot-soldiers who fought primarily with small arms, and carried the brunt of the fighting on battlefields across the United States.
  6. President of the north during the civil war
  7. warships designed to be impervious to enemy shot and shell by virtue of their iron-armored wooden hulls
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  1. the withdrawal of 11 slave states from the Union during 1860–61 following the election of Abraham Lincoln as president
  2. t typically had 500 to 1,000 acres or more of land and produced one or two cash crops for sale
  3. A form of legal tender paper money created by the Union government to help finance the Civil War
  4. the portion of the country that remained loyal to the Federal government during the Civil War
  5. the government of 11 Southern states that seceded from the Union in 1860–61, carrying on all the affairs of a separate government and conducting a major war until defeated in the spring of 1865
  6. First battle of Civil war
  7. president of the south
  8. weapons equipment and practices used to support the infantry and cavalry forces in the field

15 Clues: president of the south • First battle of Civil war • a Civil War soldier's catch-all • a heavy, ankle-high shoe or boot • President of the north during the civil war • is a person who sought to abolish slavery during the 19th century • weapons equipment and practices used to support the infantry and cavalry forces in the field • ...

Civil War Crossword - HD 2022-01-11

Civil War Crossword - HD crossword puzzle
Across
  1. A leather shoe, similar to an ankle-high boot, issued to soldiers during the Civil War
  2. popular song during civil war (South)
  3. the first state to secede (is abbreviated)
  4. common dish during civil war
  5. A metal blade, like a long knife or short sword, that could be attached to the end of a musket or rifle-musket and used as a spear or pike in hand-to-hand combat.
  6. A term used to describe marauding or foraging soldiers
  7. Raised platform or mound allowing an artillery piece to be fired over a fortification's walls without exposing the gun crew to enemy fire.
  8. A place where weapons and other military supplies are manufactured.
  9. A place where weapons and other military supplies are stored.
  10. what battle had the most deaths
  11. A two-wheeled or four-wheeled wagon or cart used to transport wounded or sick soldiers
  12. how many blacks were freed after the civil war (not exact, in words)
  13. lead the union
  14. The effort by the North to keep ships from entering or leaving Southern ports.
  15. general for south
  16. To lie in wait for an unexpected attack.
  17. popular song during civil war (North)
  18. Cannon or other large caliber firearms; a branch of the army armed with cannon.
  19. the only confederate president
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  1. the number of deaths in the civil war
  2. chopped down trees placed with their branches facing the enemy, used to strengthen fortifications
  3. The long metal tube on a gun through which a projectile is fired.
  4. Temporary soldier encampment in which soldiers were provided no shelter other than what could be assembled quickly, such as branches; sleeping in the open.
  5. how many deaths did the battle of gettysburg have
  6. the north relied on what
  7. An honorary promotion in rank, usually for merit. Officers did not usually function at or receive pay for their brevet rank.
  8. the north and south disagreed on what?
  9. A large gap or “hole” in a fortification's walls or embankments caused by artillery or mines, exposing the inside of the fortification to assault.
  10. the last battle of the civil war
  11. Blanket or other bedding rolled up and carried over the shoulder by a soldier. Sometimes soldiers would include personal belongings in their bedroll.
  12. A field fortification which was made to absorb the shock of artillery strikes. It was constructed of heavy timbers and its roof was covered with soil.
  13. the south relied on what
  14. the last state to secede (is abbreviated)
  15. the first battle of the civil war
  16. A large group of soldiers usually led by a brigadier general
  17. general for union and 18th president
  18. Home-made dye used to color “homespun” cloth a yellow-brown color,
  19. A term often used to describe the United States of America before the outbreak of the Civil War.
  20. where were the first shots of the civil war fired
  21. Barriers which were about breast-high and protected soldiers from enemy fire
  22. The basic unit of soldiers in an artillery regiment
  23. States The states of Maryland, Delaware, Kentucky, and Missouri. Although these states did not officially join the Confederacy, many of their citizens supported the South.
  24. The largest organizational group of soldiers, made up of one or more corps

43 Clues: lead the union • general for south • the north relied on what • the south relied on what • common dish during civil war • the only confederate president • what battle had the most deaths • the last battle of the civil war • the first battle of the civil war • general for union and 18th president • the number of deaths in the civil war • popular song during civil war (South) • ...

Civil War 2022-03-04

Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Who found the red cross
  2. Who killed abraham lincoln
  3. Why did the civil war started
  4. Who was in charge of confederate army
  5. When did the civil war takes place
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  1. Who won the civil war
  2. Who was against slavery
  3. Who was in charge of the Union army
  4. Who lost the civil war
  5. Who ended the civil war

10 Clues: Who won the civil war • Who lost the civil war • Who found the red cross • Who was against slavery • Who ended the civil war • Who killed abraham lincoln • Why did the civil war started • When did the civil war takes place • Who was in charge of the Union army • Who was in charge of confederate army

civilwar crossword 2023-02-16

civilwar crossword crossword puzzle
Across
  1. a act in judging someone for there race
  2. A soldier that is wounded or killed during battle
  3. a place that showed the start of the amercian civil war
  4. was the general for the union
  5. Promoting the interests of a section or region (such as the North or the South) instead of the entire country
  6. When the southern states chose to leave the United States and to no longer be a part of the country
  7. military strategy proposed by Union General Winfield Scott early in the American Civil War
  8. Another name for the Confederate States of America or the South. The Confederacy was a group of states that left the United States to form their own country
  9. These states were slave states that did not leave the Union, but largely supported the cause of the Confederates. They included Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, and Delaware
  10. A person who wanted to eliminate or "abolish" slavery
  11. was the action of forcing someone to manual labor and do stuff for them
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  1. a group of black slaves tat served in the war
  2. A large farm in the southern United States. Before the Civil War many of the workers on plantations were enslaved
  3. A law passed by Congress in 1850 that said escaped enslaved people in free states had to be returned to their owners
  4. was the president during the civil war.
  5. An attempt to stop people and supplies from going in or out of a port
  6. A term meaning "before war". It was often used to describe the United States before the Civil War
  7. was the general for the confedarcy.
  8. A long gun with a smooth bore that soldiers shot from the shoulder

19 Clues: was the general for the union • was the general for the confedarcy. • a act in judging someone for there race • was the president during the civil war. • a group of black slaves tat served in the war • A soldier that is wounded or killed during battle • A person who wanted to eliminate or "abolish" slavery • a place that showed the start of the amercian civil war • ...

Civil War Crossword 2025-04-01

Civil War Crossword crossword puzzle
Across
  1. The act of leaving the Union, claimed as a right by Southern states.
  2. Lincoln issued this proclamation in 1863 to free enslaved people in Confederate states.
  3. Lincoln described this as “government of the people, by the people, for the people.”
  4. Term for formerly enslaved individuals who sought rights and opportunities after the war.
  5. The political party of Abraham Lincoln, which opposed the expansion of slavery.
  6. President of the United States who led the Union during the Civil War.
  7. The Northern government led by Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War.
  8. Commander of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia.
  9. Abolitionist and former enslaved man who advised Lincoln and advocated for Black soldiers.
  10. Union general who later became the 18th President of the United States.
  11. Last name of the president of the Confederate States of America.
  12. The period after the Civil War focused on rebuilding the South and integrating freed slaves.
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  1. Turning point battle in Pennsylvania was fought in July 1863.
  2. Union victory in Mississippi that gave control of the Mississippi River.
  3. The government formed by Southern states that seceded from the Union.
  4. Nickname for Northerners who moved South after the war, often seen as opportunists.
  5. Lincoln warned that this “divided against itself cannot stand.”
  6. Crow – Laws that enforced racial segregation in the South after Reconstruction.
  7. Lincoln believed preserving this was the primary goal of the Civil War.
  8. The first major battle of the Civil War, also called Manassas.
  9. The 13th, 14th, and 15th of these granted rights to formerly enslaved people.
  10. A core belief of Lincoln, who stated, “Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.”
  11. The bloodiest single-day battle of the Civil War, was fought in Maryland.
  12. A bloody battle in Tennessee that showed the war would be long and costly.
  13. Former enslaved woman who helped free others and served as a Union spy.

25 Clues: Commander of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia. • Turning point battle in Pennsylvania was fought in July 1863. • The first major battle of the Civil War, also called Manassas. • Lincoln warned that this “divided against itself cannot stand.” • Last name of the president of the Confederate States of America. • ...

Reconstruction Crossword Puzzle 2022-02-24

Reconstruction Crossword Puzzle crossword puzzle
Across
  1. What Johnson used on many bills on his desk
  2. House of Representatives did this to President Johnson during his presidency
  3. Last name of U.S President during Civil War
  4. Amendment gave male Africans the right to vote
  5. Amendment added to the Constitution that gave citizens equal protection under the law
  6. President Johnson who never lost an election and couldn’t do this until he was 20 years old
  7. During Reconstruction, many people thought this should happen to Confederate leaders
  8. White supremacist terrorist group started during Reconstruction (three words, no spaces)
  9. Many Republicans thought President Johnson was this
  10. College Thadeus Stevens graduated from in 1814
  11. Last name of U.S President after Lincoln
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  1. Last name of man who opposed slavery, supported Lincoln, helped with Johnson impeachment and died during Johnson's Presidency
  2. Type of foot Thadeus Stevens had
  3. Reconstruction Act did this to the south
  4. time period following the Civil War
  5. Amendment added to Constitution that abolished slavery in all states
  6. Both Presidents Lincoln and Johnson grew up in this way
  7. War that divided America and ended in 1865 (two words no spaces)
  8. Horrible event involving Africans forced to work on plantations that ended after Civil War
  9. Term given to some Republicans after Civil War who wanted South to be punished

20 Clues: Type of foot Thadeus Stevens had • time period following the Civil War • Reconstruction Act did this to the south • Last name of U.S President after Lincoln • What Johnson used on many bills on his desk • Last name of U.S President during Civil War • Amendment gave male Africans the right to vote • College Thadeus Stevens graduated from in 1814 • ...

Mod18 Crossword 2024-09-09

Mod18 Crossword crossword puzzle
Across
  1. volunteer who organized the collection of medicine and supplies for delivery to the battlefield
  2. carried out the Union plan to destroy southern railroads and industries. He practiced total war.
  3. destroying civilian and economic resources
  4. commander of the Confederate Army
  5. the first major battle of the Civil War
  6. 15,000 Confederate soldiers marched up Cemetery Ridge
  7. Lincoln’s short famous speech dedicating the Gettysburg battlefield as a cemetery
  8. slave states that did not join the Confederacy-Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri
  9. small town where Lee surrendered to Grant, ending the Civil War
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  1. order written by Lincoln to free the Confederate slaves
  2. constitutional protection against unlawful imprisonment
  3. key battle that finally turned the tide against the Confederates
  4. military unit that consisted mostly of free African Americans
  5. escaped slaves
  6. led to the Union army gaining greater control of the Mississippi River valley
  7. bloodiest single-day battle of the Civil War and of US history
  8. federal outpost in Charleston, South Carolina, that was attacked by Confederate troops, beginning the Civil War
  9. commander of forces in the Union’s western campaign and later commander of all Union forces
  10. ships heavily armored with iron
  11. General Grant cut off the city and shelled it repeatedly until residents ran out of food and surrendered

20 Clues: escaped slaves • ships heavily armored with iron • commander of the Confederate Army • the first major battle of the Civil War • destroying civilian and economic resources • 15,000 Confederate soldiers marched up Cemetery Ridge • order written by Lincoln to free the Confederate slaves • constitutional protection against unlawful imprisonment • ...

History Ch.7 2025-12-01

History Ch.7 crossword puzzle
Across
  1. The 11 states that withdrew from the union to form their own country.
  2. The 15th President; was the last President before the Civil War.
  3. The battle that gave the union Army control of the Mississippi River, cutting the Confederacy and half.
  4. The 14th President; signed the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
  5. The year of lease surrender to Grant that ended the Civil War.
  6. The 12th U.S. President; nicknamed “Old Rough and Ready,” Was a general in the Mexican-American War.
  7. the turning point in the Civil War.
  8. The union ironclad ship
  9. A person who believes slavery should be abolished or ended.
  10. President of the Confederate states of America
  11. A political party founded on the belief that slavery should not be allowed in the U.S. territories.
  12. An agreement that attempted to balance power in the Senate between free and slave states.
  13. The first major Civil War battle one by the South.
  14. The 16th president of the United States, the first Republican president, president during the Civil War.
  15. The Union general, whose marched to the sea destroyed southern towns and led to the end of the Civil War.
  16. Commander of the confederate army.
  17. Means to withdraw or to leave from.
  18. This divided a section of western land into Kansas, a slave state, and Nebraska, a free state.
  19. The final capital of the Confederate states of America.
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  1. A document that declared that all slaves are free and states that had left the Union.
  2. Early commander of the union army of the Potomac.
  3. Secret roots leading to free northern states and Canada.
  4. The location of the assassination of President Lincoln.
  5. The war fought between the union and the confederate states of America.
  6. The constitutional amendment that outlawed slavery in the U.S.
  7. The actor who shot President Lincoln.
  8. The four in Charleston, South Carolina were the first shots of the Civil War were fired.
  9. A law requiring people in free northern states to return runaway slave slaves to the South.
  10. A law that put a stop to bringing enslaved people to America to be sold.
  11. Commander of all union armies, known as “Unconditional Surrender.”
  12. the deadliest Battle of the Civil War.
  13. The location of the surrender of Robert E Lee and the Confederate army to Ulysses S. Grant.
  14. An abolitionist who escaped from slavery; wrote a book about his life as a slave.
  15. The Supreme Court decision that allowed slavery in the U.S. territories.
  16. The Confederate ironclad ship.
  17. The author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin
  18. The 13th President; became President after Taylor; Signed into law the Compromise of 1850.
  19. A former slave who led over 70 slaves to freedom by way of the Underground Railroad.
  20. The three minute speech by President Lincoln, that honored both the Union and Confederate fallen soldiers.
  21. The year the American Civil Warbegan.
  22. A Confederate general and most remembered soldier of the First Battle of Bull Run.

41 Clues: The union ironclad ship • The Confederate ironclad ship. • The author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin • Commander of the confederate army. • the turning point in the Civil War. • Means to withdraw or to leave from. • The actor who shot President Lincoln. • The year the American Civil Warbegan. • the deadliest Battle of the Civil War. • President of the Confederate states of America • ...

Civil War Project 2024-04-24

Civil War Project crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Union General
  2. An all black military regiment that fought at Fort Wagner
  3. Confederate general
  4. A port in Charleston that the Union had control of during the civil war
  5. A decree that set slaves free
  6. Union Side of the country
  7. Two battles where the second battle was more bloodier than the first.
  8. What young boys would do
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  1. What women would do
  2. The side that wanted to free slaves
  3. A strategy to "strangle" the south
  4. Confederate President
  5. Confederate Side
  6. Union President
  7. Southern laws that kept slaves restricted
  8. First shot of the civil war
  9. The side that wanted slaver
  10. Where Lincoln gave his famous address in Pennsylvania
  11. The first submarine that destroyed Union Ships
  12. Where the last shots of the Civil war were fired

20 Clues: Union General • Union President • Confederate Side • What women would do • Confederate general • Confederate President • What young boys would do • Union Side of the country • First shot of the civil war • The side that wanted slaver • A decree that set slaves free • A strategy to "strangle" the south • The side that wanted to free slaves • Southern laws that kept slaves restricted • ...

Civil War 2013-04-04

Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Right to have trial
  2. Anti slavery
  3. The interest of one section or region over the interest of the entire country
  4. Routes for escaping slaves
  5. Withdrawing from something
  6. Helped Abraham Lincoln in the war
  7. California becoming a free state and the division of Mexican cession
  8. Confederate supporting Northeners
  9. Enslaved African public speaker who became a public speaker
  10. To free someone or something
  11. Crime to help fugative slaves
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  1. Act allowing to vote for or against slavery
  2. Politics belong to the people
  3. Won the war
  4. Union states with slavery
  5. No casualties
  6. Lee's friend
  7. Slave leader

18 Clues: Won the war • Anti slavery • Lee's friend • Slave leader • No casualties • Right to have trial • Union states with slavery • Routes for escaping slaves • Withdrawing from something • To free someone or something • Politics belong to the people • Crime to help fugative slaves • Helped Abraham Lincoln in the war • Confederate supporting Northeners • ...

Civil War 2013-04-08

Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. act to formally withdraw the union
  2. people who wanted slavery to end
  3. famous female abolitionist that worked in the Underground Railroad and led many slaves to freedom
  4. lincolon believed that the purpose of this was to keep the union together
  5. route that slaves traveled on to find freedom
  6. to end slavery
  7. law that allowed runaway slaves get arrested and to be returned to their owner
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  1. to refuse to follow the law
  2. area where slaves worked
  3. critics in the north that wanted slavery and they alao wanted peaceful negotiations with the south
  4. second general for the confederate
  5. Led the Confederate as a general
  6. allowed voters in _______ and _______ to decide whether they should have slavery
  7. idea claims that the political authority should belong to the citizens
  8. law that let california unite with the union as a free state
  9. Led one of the most biggest rebellion in U.S history
  10. Led the Union as general
  11. protection against unlawful inprisonment

18 Clues: to end slavery • area where slaves worked • Led the Union as general • to refuse to follow the law • people who wanted slavery to end • Led the Confederate as a general • act to formally withdraw the union • second general for the confederate • protection against unlawful inprisonment • route that slaves traveled on to find freedom • ...

Civil War 2016-12-05

Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Union General of The Battle of Gettysburg
  2. Confederate General during Sherman's march
  3. General branch of an army that engages in military combat on foot.
  4. a series of speeches
  5. Sumter Battle that started April 12, 1861.
  6. Extra personnel sent to increase the strength of an army.
  7. March to Sea took place November, 1864.
  8. Confederate General during Atlanta Campaign
  9. A sword-like blade that may be fixed to the muzzle of a rifle for use in hand-to-hand fighting.
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  1. Campaign Battle that was in May, 1864.
  2. to leave army without permission
  3. A ceremony to mark the commencement of a new president of the United States.
  4. Machine that sends electric signals over wires.
  5. when part of the county leaves
  6. Union General of Fort Sumter
  7. Confederate General of Fort Sumter
  8. of Gettysburg Happened on July 1, 1863.
  9. Union General during Atlanta Campaign and Sherman's march to Sea.

18 Clues: a series of speeches • Union General of Fort Sumter • when part of the county leaves • to leave army without permission • Confederate General of Fort Sumter • Campaign Battle that was in May, 1864. • of Gettysburg Happened on July 1, 1863. • March to Sea took place November, 1864. • Union General of The Battle of Gettysburg • Confederate General during Sherman's march • ...

Civil War 2021-04-01

Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. nurse who founded American Red Cross
  2. fought from 1861 to 1865
  3. ship that enters or leaves a blockaded port
  4. commander of union at end of the war
  5. president of confederate states
  6. southern uniform color
  7. commander of western forces
  8. southern group led by Jefferson Davis
  9. general of the confederacy
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  1. state that fort was located that started the war
  2. battle that started the civil war
  3. northern plan to destroy supplies and land in south
  4. capital of the north
  5. president in 1860
  6. capital of the south
  7. northern group led by Lincoln
  8. DE, MD, KY, MO, WV
  9. northern uniform color

18 Clues: president in 1860 • DE, MD, KY, MO, WV • capital of the north • capital of the south • southern uniform color • northern uniform color • fought from 1861 to 1865 • general of the confederacy • commander of western forces • northern group led by Lincoln • president of confederate states • battle that started the civil war • nurse who founded American Red Cross • ...

Civil War 2023-05-12

Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. In an attempt to start an armed revolt of enslaved people and destroy the institution of slavery?
  2. What was published on March 10, 1852?
  3. What act required all slaves to be returned to their owners?
  4. What decision was important to the civil war?
  5. where was the union located?
  6. Who were located in the South?
  7. What law was passed after the civil war?
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  1. what act was made on May 30th, 1854?
  2. What amendment banned slavery?
  3. What was the most common surgery during the Civil War?
  4. Who was located in the north?
  5. A riot started between Three distinct political groups occupied Kansas: pro-slavery, Free-Staters and abolitionists,is now called what?
  6. What amendment allowed all men to vote?
  7. what amendment allowed African American men the right to vote?
  8. Who assassinated Abraham Lincoln?
  9. What restricted black people's right to own property, conduct business, buy and lease land, and move freely through public spaces?
  10. Who was the Confederate general during the Civil War?
  11. where were the Confederates located?

18 Clues: where was the union located? • Who was located in the north? • What amendment banned slavery? • Who were located in the South? • Who assassinated Abraham Lincoln? • what act was made on May 30th, 1854? • where were the Confederates located? • What was published on March 10, 1852? • What amendment allowed all men to vote? • What law was passed after the civil war? • ...

civil war 2025-04-15

civil war crossword puzzle
Across
  1. a big battle during 1861
  2. document that frees slaves in confederate states
  3. deaths and other unfortunate events
  4. withdraw from alliance
  5. commander of the union troops
  6. major cause of death during the war
  7. one side of the war (confederate)
  8. Women that ran underground railway against slavery
  9. commander of the Confederate troops
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  1. president for the union
  2. war support by civilians
  3. form of transportation of troops,resources, etc
  4. people that are forced to work
  5. form of communication between commanders to set strategic military strategy
  6. one of the sides of the war (union)
  7. where most of the battles took place
  8. weapons used during the war
  9. used for naval battles and transportation alternative to land

18 Clues: withdraw from alliance • president for the union • war support by civilians • a big battle during 1861 • weapons used during the war • commander of the union troops • people that are forced to work • one side of the war (confederate) • one of the sides of the war (union) • deaths and other unfortunate events • major cause of death during the war • ...

Civil War 2025-04-15

Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. a big battle during 1861
  2. document that frees slaves in confederate states
  3. deaths and other unfortunate events
  4. withdraw from alliance
  5. commander of the union troops
  6. major cause of death during the war
  7. one side of the war (confederate)
  8. Women that ran underground railway against slavery
  9. commander of the Confederate troops
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  1. president for the union
  2. war support by civilians
  3. form of transportation of troops,resources, etc
  4. people that are forced to work
  5. form of communication between commanders to set strategic military strategy
  6. one of the sides of the war (union)
  7. where most of the battles took place
  8. weapons used during the war
  9. used for naval battles and transportation alternative to land

18 Clues: withdraw from alliance • president for the union • war support by civilians • a big battle during 1861 • weapons used during the war • commander of the union troops • people that are forced to work • one side of the war (confederate) • one of the sides of the war (union) • deaths and other unfortunate events • major cause of death during the war • ...

Civil war 2025-04-15

Civil war crossword puzzle
Across
  1. weapons used during the war
  2. document that frees slaves in confederate states
  3. war support by civilians
  4. used for naval battles and transportation alternative to land
  5. commander of the Confederate troops
  6. form of transportation of troops,resources, etc
  7. form of communication between commanders to set strategic military strategy
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  1. one side of the war (confederate)
  2. where most of the battles took place
  3. a big battle during 1861
  4. one of the sides of the war (union)
  5. major cause of death during the war
  6. withdraw from alliance
  7. deaths and other unfortunate events
  8. people that are forced to work
  9. president for the union
  10. Women that ran underground railway against slavery
  11. commander of the union troops

18 Clues: withdraw from alliance • president for the union • a big battle during 1861 • war support by civilians • weapons used during the war • commander of the union troops • people that are forced to work • one side of the war (confederate) • one of the sides of the war (union) • major cause of death during the war • deaths and other unfortunate events • ...

Civil War 2025-09-08

Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. The states have the ability to make their own laws
  2. What was Lincoln's main goal as President
  3. President of the Confederacy
  4. What was the first state to secede from the Union
  5. What was the main crop grown in the south before the Civil War
  6. Did slaves have any rights
  7. What did the Southern States call themselves
  8. A person that wanted slavery to end
  9. Who won the first battle of the Civil War
  10. What state did the battle of Bull Run take place in
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  1. What was the first battle of the Civil War
  2. What was the economy of the North based on
  3. Was Lincoln for or against slavery
  4. What did the Confederacy create
  5. Who won the election of 1860
  6. What were large farms in the south called
  7. What book influenced the election of 1860
  8. How many states broke away from the Union

18 Clues: Did slaves have any rights • President of the Confederacy • Who won the election of 1860 • What did the Confederacy create • Was Lincoln for or against slavery • A person that wanted slavery to end • What was Lincoln's main goal as President • What were large farms in the south called • What book influenced the election of 1860 • How many states broke away from the Union • ...

Civil war 2025-12-16

Civil war crossword puzzle
Across
  1. To formally withdraw from a political union.
  2. Union's top general who accepted Lee's surrender.
  3. The northern states that did not secede during the Civil War.
  4. The courthouse village in Virginia where General Lee surrendered to General Grant.
  5. A common nickname for Union soldiers or Northerners.
  6. The act of freeing enslaved people, as detailed in an 1863 proclamation.
  7. A person from the Confederacy or a state below the Mason-Dixon line.
  8. Site of two major battles, known to the Union as Bull Run.
  9. U.S. President who issued the Emancipation Proclamation.
  10. A network of secret routes and safe houses used by enslaved people to escape to freedom.
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  1. Commander of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia.
  2. An official public announcement, such as Lincoln's Emancipation one.
  3. The southern states that seceded and formed their own government.
  4. The movement to end slavery.
  5. The bloodiest single-day battle in American history.
  6. Union's top general who accepted Lee's surrender.
  7. The sole president of the Confederate States of America.
  8. Enslaved man who sued for his freedom in a famous, pre-war Supreme Court case.
  9. Site of a pivotal three-day battle in Pennsylvania, 1863.

19 Clues: The movement to end slavery. • To formally withdraw from a political union. • Union's top general who accepted Lee's surrender. • Union's top general who accepted Lee's surrender. • The bloodiest single-day battle in American history. • A common nickname for Union soldiers or Northerners. • Commander of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia. • ...

Review: Civil War 1863-1865 2012-12-17

Review: Civil War 1863-1865 crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Union general in charge of “total war” to the South.
  2. In the Civil War, most of the fighting and destruction occurred in the ________.
  3. This Civil War General was quoted as saying, "Then there is nothing left for me to do but go and see General Grant, and I had rather die a thousand deaths"?
  4. Battle in Pennsylvania, in 1863, estimated 50,000 casualties suffered.
  5. In 1864, this General was given command of all Union forces.
  6. Capital of the Confederacy.
  7. African-American regiment who led an assault on Fort Wagner in Charleston, South Carolina, and suffered heavy casualties.
  8. Around 600,000 people died in the ________________.
  9. The surrender of the city of ________________ to Gen. Ulysses Grant on the Fourth of July.
  10. A path of destruction 60 miles wide that looted and burned the South’s countryside, freed thousands of slaves, led to the South losing the will to fight.
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  1. The Union victory at the Battle of Chattanooga was known as “the battle above the __________”.
  2. Brief speech stating that the dead should not have died in vain, referenced Declaration of Independence, Revolutionary War.
  3. Raiding of Southern farms, businesses, homes and destruction of railroads and telegraph lines.
  4. Civil War military leader famous for saying, “General Lee, I have no division”.
  5. Won the Battle of Gettysburg.
  6. Battle in Virginia, where General Lee surrendered to General Grant, April 9th, 1865
  7. Majority of those who died in the Civil War died as a result of infection or ______________.
  8. First state to secede, seen as much of the cause of the Civil War.
  9. the capture of this city was presented to President Lincoln as a Christmas gift in December of 1864.

19 Clues: Capital of the Confederacy. • Won the Battle of Gettysburg. • Around 600,000 people died in the ________________. • Union general in charge of “total war” to the South. • In 1864, this General was given command of all Union forces. • First state to secede, seen as much of the cause of the Civil War. • ...

The Civil War 2016-05-02

The Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. (1803-1862) Confederate commander of the Western Department of the Confederate Army; killed in the Battle of Shiloh
  2. the southern region of the United States which broke away, forming their own nation; often called the "rebels"
  3. (March 8-9, 1862, Virginia) the first meeting of ironclads in the Civil War; navies would shift from wooden ships to ironclads after the battle
  4. members of Lincoln's own party who criticized Lincoln for making the war about preserving the Union rather than about slavery
  5. (April 9, 1865, Virginia; Union victory) the surrender of General Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia; signaled the beginning of the end of the Civil War
  6. (July 21, 1861, Virginia; Confederate victory) the first major land battle of the Civil War; General Thomas Jackson earned the nickname "Stonewall"
  7. (April 12-14, 1861, South Carolina; Confederate victory) the start of the Civil War
  8. (May - September 2, 1864, Georgia; Union victory) victory helped Lincoln win the election of 1864; Sherman burned almost the entire city before starting his March to the Sea
  9. (1818-1893) Confederate general at Fort Sumter and First Bull Run
  10. Union general famous for his "total war" strategy in the Atlanta Campaign
  11. (1809-1865) President of the United States of America during the Civil War; issued the Emancipation Proclamation; assassinated by John Wilkes Booth in 1865
  12. (1824-1863) a Confederate corps commander in the Army of Northern Virginia; earned his nickname at First Bull Run; shot by friendly fire at Chancellorsville and died from pneumonia
  13. (1786-1866) commanding general of the Union army at the start of the Civil War; created the Anaconda Plan
  14. (September 17, 1862, Maryland; Union victory) the bloodiest day of the Civil War; Lincoln soon after issued the Emancipation Proclamation
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  1. (November 19, 1863) three-minute speech given by Lincoln at a dedication speech for a battlefield cemetery; regarded as one of the finest speeches of all time
  2. (June 9, 1864 - March 25, 1865, Virginia; Union victory) cut off railroad supply line to the capital at Richmond; Lee retreated and Confederate government officials evacuated Richmond
  3. (1808-1889) President of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War
  4. (April 14, 1865) assassinated Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theater in Washington
  5. drafting men for military service
  6. (1822-1885) commanding general of the Union army for the latter half of the Civil War
  7. ("Copperheads") favored ending the war, whether it meant welcoming the seceded states back into the Union along with slavery or letting the southern states remain separate
  8. (September 22, 1862) executive order issued by Abraham Lincoln which declared all slaves in the Confederate states to be free if those states did not return to the Union by the end of the year
  9. (May 18 - July 4, 1863, Mississippi; Union victory) Union gained control of the Mississippi River; cut off Confederate communications and supplies from west of the Mississippi River; often considered the turning point in the war along with Gettysburg
  10. (1863) law drafting Union men ages 20-45 for 3 years of military service; each state had a quota of soldiers to provide
  11. (July 1-3, 1863, Pennsylvania; Union victory) more casualties than any other battle in the Civil War; often considered the turning point in the war
  12. failed maneuver by Confederate soldiers on Union soldiers positioned on high ground on the final day of the Battle of Gettysburg
  13. (1861) the first federal income tax in American history; used to raise money for the Union
  14. Winfield Scott's plan to blockade Confederate ports, take control of the Mississippi River, and capture the Confederate capital at Richmond, VA
  15. a war between citizens of the same country fighting for control over that country
  16. (1826-1885) commanding general of the Union army for a short period; nominated by the Democrats to run against Lincoln in the election of 1864
  17. (1807-1870) Confederate commanding general of the Army of Northern Virginia; earned victories at the Battle of Seven Days, Second Bull Run, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville; surrendered at Appomattox Court House

31 Clues: drafting men for military service • (1818-1893) Confederate general at Fort Sumter and First Bull Run • Union general famous for his "total war" strategy in the Atlanta Campaign • (April 14, 1865) assassinated Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theater in Washington • (1808-1889) President of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War • ...

Tudors and Stuarts 2017-03-22

Tudors and Stuarts crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Guy Fawkes was tortured on this
  2. the man blamed for the Gunpowder Plot
  3. Phillip II of Spain sent this to invade England
  4. a gun used in the Civil War
  5. Fought for Parliament
  6. Nickname for Mary Tudor
  7. Civil War soldiers wore these in different colours for identity
  8. This broke out between Charles I and Parliament
  9. a long Civil War weapon
  10. Henry VIII's son
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  1. Mary Tudor burnt a lot of these
  2. First King of England and Scotland
  3. Plot to blow up the Houses of Parliament
  4. The gunpowder plotters were this type of faith
  5. Queen of Scots beheaded by Elizabeth
  6. King of Spain
  7. Fought for Charles I
  8. Plot to kill Elizabeth I
  9. Elizabeth I's father

19 Clues: King of Spain • Henry VIII's son • Fought for Charles I • Elizabeth I's father • Fought for Parliament • Nickname for Mary Tudor • a long Civil War weapon • Plot to kill Elizabeth I • a gun used in the Civil War • Mary Tudor burnt a lot of these • Guy Fawkes was tortured on this • First King of England and Scotland • Queen of Scots beheaded by Elizabeth • ...

civil war crossword puzzle 2021-03-26

civil war crossword puzzle crossword puzzle
Across
  1. ,the 18th president of the United States, serving from 1869 to 1877
  2. , 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.
  3. , 16th president
  4. , slave states that did not secede from the Union.
  5. , war between the north and south
  6. , the capital of Virginia
  7. ,was an American Confederate general best known as a commander of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.
  8. , is a southeastern U.S. state known for its shoreline of subtropical beaches and marsh like sea islands.
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  1. ,a merchant vessel used for evading a naval blockade of a port or strait.
  2. , president of the Confederate States of America throughout its existence during the American Civil War
  3. , American Civil War general and a major architect of modern warfare.
  4. , an island fortification located in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina most famous for being the site of the first shots of the Civil War
  5. , the North, was composed of the U.S. states that were loyal to the U.S. federal government led by President Abraham Lincoln.
  6. , is the name applied to a strategy outlined by the Union Army for suppressing the Confederacy at the beginning of the American Civil War.
  7. ,was a pioneering American nurse who founded the American Red Cross.

15 Clues: , 16th president • , the capital of Virginia • , war between the north and south • , slave states that did not secede from the Union. • ,the 18th president of the United States, serving from 1869 to 1877 • ,was a pioneering American nurse who founded the American Red Cross. • , American Civil War general and a major architect of modern warfare. • ...

Reconstruction Cross Word 2025-02-27

Reconstruction Cross Word crossword puzzle
Across
  1. The idea that the government's power comes from the people
  2. Military rule imposed on citizens instead of civil law and government.
  3. Granted U.S. citizenship to all formerly enslaved people
  4. 18th President of the US elected in 1868, he campaigned on his Civil War experience as commanding general of the Union forces
  5. Laws passed in the south that discriminated against Freedmen, including laws on curfews, laws regulating work and pay
  6. A system of agriculture in which a landowner allowed a tenant farmer to use land in exchange for a share of the crop
  7. Compulsory enrollment for service in a country's armed forces
  8. An insulting word for Northerners who moved to the South after the war to profit from reconstruction
  9. Gave voting rights to all African American men
  10. The first military unit consisting of Black soldiers to be raised in the North during the Civil War
  11. 16th President of the U.S., serving during the Civil War,he emancipated enslaved
  12. The withdrawal of eleven southern states from the Union in 1860, leading to the Civil War
  13. A secret terrorist organization in the U.S. made up of white people who are opposed to people of other races
  14. jobs, fair treatment, and education
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  1. The act required that slaves be returned to their owners, even if they were in a free state
  2. The first woman in America to receive a medical degree
  3. Officially abolished slavery in all parts of the U.S. after the Civil War
  4. Insulting name for white southerners who supported reconstruction efforts
  5. An agency set up in 1865 to assist formerly enslaved people in obtaining relief,
  6. Connected the east coast to the west coast of The United States
  7. and was assassinated in 1865.
  8. The freeing of enslaved people by the authority that held them

22 Clues: and was assassinated in 1865. • jobs, fair treatment, and education • Gave voting rights to all African American men • The first woman in America to receive a medical degree • Granted U.S. citizenship to all formerly enslaved people • The idea that the government's power comes from the people • Compulsory enrollment for service in a country's armed forces • ...

Unit 9 2023-05-05

Unit 9 crossword puzzle
Across
  1. who opposed slavery
  2. a feeling of angry displeasure towards something
  3. who supported slavery
  4. Who was president during the civil war
  5. who won the civil war
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  1. what was invented during the civil war
  2. what was the famous speech called that Abraham Lincoln gave during the civil war
  3. what is one battle from the civil war
  4. a form of government in which the power belongs to the people
  5. what did the civil war stop
  6. what is another battle from the civil war

11 Clues: who opposed slavery • who supported slavery • who won the civil war • what did the civil war stop • what is one battle from the civil war • what was invented during the civil war • Who was president during the civil war • what is another battle from the civil war • a feeling of angry displeasure towards something • ...

The Civil War 2021-05-19

The Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
  1. The states that left the Union during the war
  2. The fort that was attacked that started the war
  3. The city Grant laid siege to,surrendered July 4
  4. The bloodiest single day battle of the Civil War
  5. Key Union victory in which 51,000 died
  6. President during the Civil War
  7. The states that stayed in the United States
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  1. Place wwhere Lee surrendered to Grant
  2. The top general of the Confederacy
  3. to leave a country
  4. destruction of civilian and economic resources
  5. freedom from enslavement
  6. The first major battle of the Civil War
  7. The top general of the Union

14 Clues: to leave a country • freedom from enslavement • The top general of the Union • President during the Civil War • The top general of the Confederacy • Place wwhere Lee surrendered to Grant • Key Union victory in which 51,000 died • The first major battle of the Civil War • The states that stayed in the United States • The states that left the Union during the war • ...

The Russian Revolution and the Impact of WW1 2024-04-04

The Russian Revolution and the Impact of WW1 crossword puzzle
Across
  1. The legislative body in post-war Russia that urged the Czar to step down
  2. A Russian monarch who was forced to step down as emperor following widespread discontent and revolution?
  3. What principle advocated by Woodrow Wilson emphasized the right of each people to have its own nation, as seen in the aftermath of World War I?
  4. An organization proposed by President Woodrow Wilson that encouraged cooperation among nations to maintain peace and prevent future wars after World War I.
  5. The concept where entire societies are involved in the war effort, affecting both military and civilian life.
  6. Anti-Communist forces opposing the Bolsheviks during the Russian Civil War
  7. The President of the United States during World War I, known for his idealistic vision for a post-war world.
  8. Payments demanded from defeated nations, especially Germany, as compensation for damages caused during the war.
  9. The feared secret police organization that initiated a campaign of violence during the Russian Civil War.
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  1. Russian revolutionary leader who spearheaded the Bolshevik movement
  2. What economic policy, implemented by the Bolsheviks during the Russian Civil War, involved the government's control over banks, industries, and agriculture to ensure supplies for the Red Army?
  3. Radical communist faction formed during the Russian Revolution
  4. What treaty marked the end of World War I and imposed significant penalties on Germany, including the War Guilt Clause and reparations payments?
  5. The army that fought for the communist regime during the Russian Civil War
  6. Woodrow Wilson's idealistic plan for lasting peace after World War I.
  7. What location was seized by the Bolsheviks during the Russian Revolution leading to the provisional government to collapse quickly?
  8. This was used during World War I to influence public opinion and boost morale?

17 Clues: Radical communist faction formed during the Russian Revolution • Russian revolutionary leader who spearheaded the Bolshevik movement • Woodrow Wilson's idealistic plan for lasting peace after World War I. • The legislative body in post-war Russia that urged the Czar to step down • The army that fought for the communist regime during the Russian Civil War • ...

The Russian Revolution and the Impact of WW1 2024-04-04

The Russian Revolution and the Impact of WW1 crossword puzzle
Across
  1. The legislative body in post-war Russia that urged the Czar to step down
  2. A Russian monarch who was forced to step down as emperor following widespread discontent and revolution?
  3. What principle advocated by Woodrow Wilson emphasized the right of each people to have its own nation, as seen in the aftermath of World War I?
  4. An organization proposed by President Woodrow Wilson that encouraged cooperation among nations to maintain peace and prevent future wars after World War I.
  5. The concept where entire societies are involved in the war effort, affecting both military and civilian life.
  6. Anti-Communist forces opposing the Bolsheviks during the Russian Civil War
  7. The President of the United States during World War I, known for his idealistic vision for a post-war world.
  8. Payments demanded from defeated nations, especially Germany, as compensation for damages caused during the war.
  9. The feared secret police organization that initiated a campaign of violence during the Russian Civil War.
Down
  1. Russian revolutionary leader who spearheaded the Bolshevik movement
  2. What economic policy, implemented by the Bolsheviks during the Russian Civil War, involved the government's control over banks, industries, and agriculture to ensure supplies for the Red Army?
  3. Radical communist faction formed during the Russian Revolution
  4. What treaty marked the end of World War I and imposed significant penalties on Germany, including the War Guilt Clause and reparations payments?
  5. The army that fought for the communist regime during the Russian Civil War
  6. Woodrow Wilson's idealistic plan for lasting peace after World War I.
  7. What location was seized by the Bolsheviks during the Russian Revolution leading to the provisional government to collapse quickly?
  8. This was used during World War I to influence public opinion and boost morale?

17 Clues: Radical communist faction formed during the Russian Revolution • Russian revolutionary leader who spearheaded the Bolshevik movement • Woodrow Wilson's idealistic plan for lasting peace after World War I. • The legislative body in post-war Russia that urged the Czar to step down • The army that fought for the communist regime during the Russian Civil War • ...

Historical Crossword Puzzle 2023-11-25

Historical Crossword Puzzle crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Early civil rights activist
  2. post-WWII infrastructure project
  3. Cold War policy
  4. Communist fear
  5. motion that forces a vote
  6. European aid plan
  7. civil rights bus protest
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  1. leader of Soviet Union during early Cold War
  2. Discrimination due to race
  3. President during Bay of Pigs
  4. Rights Movement
  5. US space organization
  6. New Deal President
  7. Cuban crisis
  8. Post-WWII military alliance

15 Clues: Cuban crisis • Communist fear • Cold War policy • Rights Movement • European aid plan • New Deal President • US space organization • civil rights bus protest • motion that forces a vote • Discrimination due to race • Early civil rights activist • Post-WWII military alliance • President during Bay of Pigs • post-WWII infrastructure project • leader of Soviet Union during early Cold War

The Civil War Vocabulary 2022-05-16

The Civil War Vocabulary crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Northern Democrats who opposed the Civil War and sympathized with the South
  2. diplomacy 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
  3. E. Lee Commander of the Confederate Army
  4. Sumter Federal fort in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina; the confederate attack on the fort marked the start of the Civil War
  5. Proclamation Proclamation issued by Lincoln, freeing all slaves in areas still at war with the Union.
  6. Jackson 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)
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  1. Davis President of the Confederate States of America
  2. Grant an American general and the eighteenth President of the United States (1869-1877). He achieved international fame as the leading Union general in the American Civil War.
  3. the freeing of slaves
  4. states Slave states that did not secede
  5. Address A 3-minute address by Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War (November 19, 1963) at the dedication of a national cemetery on the site of the Battle of Gettysburg
  6. an escaped slave who joined the Union army during the Civil War
  7. corpus Constitutional protection against unlawful imprisonment
  8. Tecumseh Sherman Union General who destroyed South during "march to the sea" from Atlanta to Savannah, example of total war

14 Clues: the freeing of slaves • states Slave states that did not secede • E. Lee Commander of the Confederate Army • Davis President of the Confederate States of America • corpus Constitutional protection against unlawful imprisonment • an escaped slave who joined the Union army during the Civil War • ...

Civil War Crossword 2021-03-04

Civil War Crossword crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Capital of the United States.
  2. war A conflict between groups or regions within a country.
  3. He was elected president of the Confederacy.
  4. When men are recruited for the military involuntarily.
  5. This was being built from 1862 to 1869 to connect the country from east to west.
  6. Concern for regional needs and interests.
  7. The south formed this when they seceded from the Union.
  8. The attack on this place in South Carolina started the Civil War.
  9. To end and prohibit something
  10. Quickest and most efficient form of transportation by soldiers of the Civil War.
Down
  1. The political party of the president elected in 1860.
  2. Capital of the Confederacy.
  3. A settlement to a disagreement where both sides give in a little.
  4. The withdrawal of a state from a union.
  5. Slave states that remained in the Union.
  6. The place where the railways met.
  7. People who worked to bring an end to slavery.
  8. Second most common mode of transportation by soldiers in the Civil War
  9. He was elected president of the U.S. in 1860.

19 Clues: Capital of the Confederacy. • Capital of the United States. • To end and prohibit something • The place where the railways met. • The withdrawal of a state from a union. • Slave states that remained in the Union. • Concern for regional needs and interests. • He was elected president of the Confederacy. • People who worked to bring an end to slavery. • ...

Review: Civil War 1863-1865 2012-12-17

Review: Civil War 1863-1865 crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Around 600,000 people died in the ________________.
  2. the capture of this city was presented to President Lincoln as a Christmas gift in December of 1864.
  3. African-American regiment who led an assault on Fort Wagner in Charleston, South Carolina, and suffered heavy casualties.
  4. Brief speech stating that the dead should not have died in vain, referenced Declaration of Independence, Revolutionary War.
  5. First state to secede, seen as much of the cause of the Civil War.
  6. Civil War military leader famous for saying, “General Lee, I have no division”.
  7. Battle in Virginia, where General Lee surrendered to General Grant, April 9th, 1865
  8. The Union victory at the Battle of Chattanooga was known as “the battle above the __________”.
  9. In 1864, this General was given command of all Union forces.
Down
  1. A path of destruction 60 miles wide that looted and burned the South’s countryside, freed thousands of slaves, led to the South losing the will to fight.
  2. Union general in charge of “total war” to the South.
  3. The surrender of the city of ________________ to Gen. Ulysses Grant on the Fourth of July.
  4. In the Civil War, most of the fighting and destruction occurred in the ________.
  5. This Civil War General was quoted as saying, "Then there is nothing left for me to do but go and see General Grant, and I had rather die a thousand deaths"?
  6. Raiding of Southern farms, businesses, homes and destruction of railroads and telegraph lines.
  7. Battle in Pennsylvania, in 1863, estimated 50,000 casualties suffered.
  8. Capital of the Confederacy.
  9. Majority of those who died in the Civil War died as a result of infection or ______________.
  10. Won the Battle of Gettysburg.

19 Clues: Capital of the Confederacy. • Won the Battle of Gettysburg. • Around 600,000 people died in the ________________. • Union general in charge of “total war” to the South. • In 1864, this General was given command of all Union forces. • First state to secede, seen as much of the cause of the Civil War. • ...

Review: Civil War 1863-1865 2012-12-17

Review: Civil War 1863-1865 crossword puzzle
Across
  1. First state to secede, seen as much of the cause of the Civil War.
  2. Capital of the Confederacy.
  3. The Union victory at the Battle of Chattanooga was known as “the battle above the __________”.
  4. The surrender of the city of ________________ to Gen. Ulysses Grant on the Fourth of July.
  5. the capture of this city was presented to President Lincoln as a Christmas gift in December of 1864.
  6. Raiding of Southern farms, businesses, homes and destruction of railroads and telegraph lines.
  7. Battle in Virginia, where General Lee surrendered to General Grant, April 9th, 1865
  8. In the Civil War, most of the fighting and destruction occurred in the ________.
  9. A path of destruction 60 miles wide that looted and burned the South’s countryside, freed thousands of slaves, led to the South losing the will to fight.
  10. Brief speech stating that the dead should not have died in vain, referenced Declaration of Independence, Revolutionary War.
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  1. African-American regiment who led an assault on Fort Wagner in Charleston, South Carolina, and suffered heavy casualties.
  2. Around 600,000 people died in the ________________.
  3. Union general in charge of “total war” to the South.
  4. Civil War military leader famous for saying, “General Lee, I have no division”.
  5. Won the Battle of Gettysburg.
  6. Majority of those who died in the Civil War died as a result of infection or ______________.
  7. This Civil War General was quoted as saying, "Then there is nothing left for me to do but go and see General Grant, and I had rather die a thousand deaths"?
  8. Battle in Pennsylvania, in 1863, estimated 50,000 casualties suffered.
  9. In 1864, this General was given command of all Union forces.

19 Clues: Capital of the Confederacy. • Won the Battle of Gettysburg. • Around 600,000 people died in the ________________. • Union general in charge of “total war” to the South. • In 1864, this General was given command of all Union forces. • First state to secede, seen as much of the cause of the Civil War. • ...

Taylor Ginn 2023-03-29

Taylor Ginn crossword puzzle
Across
  1. became leader of the confederate army during the civil war
  2. secretary of war under president Franklin Pierce during the civil war
  3. was a lieutenant governor during the civil war
  4. served in the underground railroad and freed more than 700 slaves
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  1. led the union army during the civil war
  2. was president of the union during the civil war who stopped slavery
  3. American soldier and lawyer during the civil war
  4. was the confederate general during the civil war
  5. was a confederate commander and chief during the civil war
  6. was the confederate general during the civil war

10 Clues: led the union army during the civil war • was a lieutenant governor during the civil war • American soldier and lawyer during the civil war • was the confederate general during the civil war • was the confederate general during the civil war • became leader of the confederate army during the civil war • was a confederate commander and chief during the civil war • ...

Ch 15-17 Vocab 2013-05-27

Ch 15-17 Vocab crossword puzzle
Across
  1. _________ were the rights belonging to states
  2. A _________ is a person who willingly suffers death rather than renounce their religion
  3. any law that specifically limited the rights of African Americans were known as _______
  4. anything prohibited by law from being imported or exported is _________
  5. synonyms include: reward, and charity
  6. to extend or spread over is to _______
  7. A war between regions in the same country is the _________
  8. the _______ was intended to prevent blacks to vote in some southern states.
  9. Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri were ___states in 1860 between north and south
  10. Northern soldiers during the civil war were also called _______s
  11. Missourians who traveled in armed groups to vote in Kansas’s election during the 1850s
  12. s scamp or rascal is a _______
  13. synonyms include: approve, establish, and validate
  14. _______ was to be put to death without legal authority.
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  1. a system of agriculture where the land was used by a tenant with a portion of the crops going to the owner was known as _______
  2. a northern democrat who opposes civil war was known as a _________
  3. when the south split from the union they became known as _______s
  4. A person who is fleeing from prosecution s a _________
  5. President Lincoln suspended the right of _______ to prevent anyone from interfering with the war effort.
  6. The civil war had the first _______, or selection for the military.
  7. a war where all available weapons and resources are devoted is a _________
  8. soldiers were known as _______ when they fought from trenches
  9. the confederate efforts to use the importance of cotton to Britain to make Britain support them was known as _________
  10. _______ was a general pardon for all offences
  11. one of the union’s goals was to establish _______s to prevent the confederates from getting supplies
  12. The _________ in the north and south over slavery led to civil war
  13. The _________ of the south led to the start of the civil war
  14. a collection or supply of weapons or munitions is an ________
  15. a northerner who went to the south after the civil war and became active in republican politics would have been a _______
  16. to free from restraint or influence is _________
  17. during _______ the amount of money goes up causing its value to go down.
  18. Synonyms include: cease, forbear, and resist

32 Clues: s scamp or rascal is a _______ • synonyms include: reward, and charity • to extend or spread over is to _______ • Synonyms include: cease, forbear, and resist • _________ were the rights belonging to states • _______ was a general pardon for all offences • to free from restraint or influence is _________ • synonyms include: approve, establish, and validate • ...

Reconstruction Cross Word 2025-02-27

Reconstruction Cross Word crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Military rule imposed on citizens instead of civil law and government.
  2. Granted U.S. citizenship to all formerly enslaved people
  3. A secret terrorist organization in the U.S. made up of white people who are opposed to people of other races
  4. Laws passed in the south that discriminated against Freedmen, including laws on curfews, laws regulating work and pay
  5. The first woman in America to receive a medical degree
  6. An insulting word for Northerners who moved to the South after the war to profit from reconstruction
  7. Officially abolished slavery in all parts of the U.S. after the Civil War
  8. Insulting name for white southerners who supported reconstruction efforts
  9. The freeing of enslaved people by the authority that held them
  10. Gave voting rights to all African American men
  11. Connected the east coast to the west coast of The United States
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  1. The idea that the government's power comes from the people
  2. The first military unit consisting of Black soldiers to be raised in the North during the Civil War
  3. 18th President of the U.S. elected in 1868, he campaigned on his Civil War experience as commanding general of the Union forces
  4. The act required that slaves be returned to their owners, even if they were in a free state
  5. 16th President of the U.S., serving during the Civil War. He emancipated enslaved people, and was assassinated in 1865.
  6. A system of agriculture in which a landowner allowed a tenant farmer to use land in exchange for a share of the crop
  7. An agency set up in 1865 to assist formerly enslaved people in obtaining relief, land, jobs, fair treatment, and education
  8. The withdrawal of eleven southern states from the Union in 1860, leading to the Civil War
  9. Compulsory enrollment for service in a country's armed forces

20 Clues: Gave voting rights to all African American men • The first woman in America to receive a medical degree • Granted U.S. citizenship to all formerly enslaved people • The idea that the government's power comes from the people • Compulsory enrollment for service in a country's armed forces • The freeing of enslaved people by the authority that held them • ...

Apush unit 5 2024-04-29

Apush unit 5 crossword puzzle
Across
  1. political party that was anti-Jackson and supported higher tariffs
  2. name for the South during the civil war
  3. slave states that are slave states but are also loyal to the union
  4. treaty that ended the Mexican-American war
  5. Party from 1848 to 1854 against the expansion of slavery to western territories
  6. Amendment Amendment that freed all slaves in the United States
  7. white suprmeisit group that
  8. name for the north during the civil war
  9. union general that led them to victory
  10. The american idea of expanding west to settle all of North AmericaTreatyofGuadalupe treaty that ended the Mexican-American war
  11. State the Mexican-American war was over
  12. pre-civil war
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  1. Act that makes it illegal to know and not doing anything about runaway slaves
  2. Act that decides Nebraska should be a free state and Kansas should be a slave state
  3. the withdrawal of states from a nation
  4. Letting states choose whether to be free or slave states themselves
  5. battle that led lincoln to issue the emancipation proclamation
  6. commanding general of the confederate army
  7. State that the gold rush occurred in

19 Clues: pre-civil war • white suprmeisit group that • State that the gold rush occurred in • the withdrawal of states from a nation • union general that led them to victory • name for the South during the civil war • name for the north during the civil war • State the Mexican-American war was over • commanding general of the confederate army • ...

Apush Unit 5 2024-05-03

Apush Unit 5 crossword puzzle
Across
  1. name for the north during the civil war
  2. Act that decides Nebraska should be a free state and Kansas should be a slave state
  3. Party from 1848 to 1854 against the expansion of slavery to western territories
  4. the withdrawal of states from a nation
  5. The american idea of expanding west to settle all of North AmericaTreatyofGuadalupe treaty that ended the Mexican-American war
  6. State that the gold rush occurred in
  7. Amendment Amendment that freed all slaves in the United States
  8. political party that was anti-Jackson and supported higher tariffs
  9. Act that makes it illegal to know and not doing anything about runaway slaves
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  1. name for the South during the civil war
  2. battle that led lincoln to issue the emancipation proclamation
  3. State the Mexican-American war was over
  4. white suprmeisit group that
  5. union general that led them to victory
  6. slave states that are slave states but are also loyal to the union
  7. treaty that ended the Mexican-American war
  8. pre-civil war
  9. Letting states choose whether to be free or slave states themselves
  10. commanding general of the confederate army

19 Clues: pre-civil war • white suprmeisit group that • State that the gold rush occurred in • union general that led them to victory • the withdrawal of states from a nation • name for the South during the civil war • State the Mexican-American war was over • name for the north during the civil war • treaty that ended the Mexican-American war • ...

African American Herritage Month 2025-02-27

African American Herritage Month crossword puzzle
Across
  1. war. 1861-1865 war against slavery
  2. Richard Drew. African-American surgeon and medical researcher that developed large scale blood banks early in Workd War 2
  3. Lincoln. Led United States in Civil War against the confederate states and enstated Civil Rights.
  4. Rights Movement. A social movement in the United States to stop legalized segregation and discrimination, which most commonly affected African Americans
  5. Parks. Civil rights movement activist that is famous for not moving seats on the bus for white people.
  6. Douglas. Escaped slavery in Maryland in 1838 and gained fame for anti-slavery writings
  7. Augustus Morgan Sr. An African American inventor of the 3- way traffic light.
  8. Bridges. She was the first African-American child to attend a formerly whites-only school.
  9. West. American mathematician who’s work developed the GPS
  10. Mandela. South African anti-apartheid activist and politician who served as the first president of South Africa from 1994-1999
  11. Marshall. He was the Supreme Court’s first African-American justice
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  1. Baraka. African American writer of poetry, drama, fiction, essays and music criticism
  2. X. Advocated for black empowerment and civil rights activist
  3. Angelou. Poet and civil rights activist
  4. Washington Cove. African-American agricultural scientist
  5. History Month. Every February since 1976.
  6. Railroad. Network of secret paths and ways for slaves to escape to the northern states
  7. Anita Chisholm. The first black woman to be elected to the United States Congress
  8. Luther King Jr. Most prominent leader in civil rights movement using nonviolent techniques
  9. G Woodson. In 1926 he created Negro History Week in the second week of February to coincide with the birthdays of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass.

20 Clues: History Month. Every February since 1976. • war. 1861-1865 war against slavery • Angelou. Poet and civil rights activist • Washington Cove. African-American agricultural scientist • West. American mathematician who’s work developed the GPS • ...

Grey Flash Card Crossword 2020-03-25

Grey Flash Card Crossword crossword puzzle
Across
  1. / She gave a speech entitled, "Ain't I a Woman?"
  2. / Someone who is against slavery
  3. / Main issue in the Lincoln-Douglas debates
  4. / American Civil War started here
  5. / Last name of the most successful Union general
  6. / The ____-Nebraska Act said that these territories could decide for themselves if they were slave or free.
  7. / Another name for Southern states during the American Civil War
  8. / This Proclamation freed slaves in the South
  9. / Amendment that guaranteed equal protection of the law to all U.S. persons
  10. / This book stirred up worldwide anti-slavery feelings.
  11. / Last name of the editor of the "Liberator"
  12. / Last name of the most successful Confederate general
  13. / This compromise outlawed slavery north of the 36 30’ line
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  1. / 1st state to secede from the Union
  2. / People tried to improve society in this era.
  3. / Another name for Northern states during the American Civil War
  4. / Last name of the editor of "The North Star"
  5. / The American Civil War ended in 18 ___ ___.
  6. / Last name of the women who wrote 'Declaration of Sentiments'
  7. / President of the confederate sates
  8. / The American Civil War started in 18___ ___.
  9. / Amendment that ended slavery
  10. / This decision denied slaves citizenship and struck down the Missouri Compromise.
  11. / Amendment that gave all American men the right to vote
  12. / Speech in which President Lincoln said that government should be "of the people, by the people, and for the people."
  13. / Last name of the Senator from Massachusetts who supported the Union and the Compromise of 1850
  14. / Last name of the President of the Union in the American Civil War
  15. / Last name of the person who seized Harper's Ferry
  16. / Last name of the "Great Compromiser;" He worked out the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850.
  17. / The Compromise of 18__ said that California would be a free state.

30 Clues: / Amendment that ended slavery • / Someone who is against slavery • / American Civil War started here • / 1st state to secede from the Union • / President of the confederate sates • / Main issue in the Lincoln-Douglas debates • / Last name of the editor of the "Liberator" • / Last name of the editor of "The North Star" • ...

Civil War Crossword 2024-10-24

Civil War Crossword crossword puzzle
Across
  1. ____ battle, The battle on June 3rd
  2. ____ battle, also known as the battle of sharpsburg
  3. a military boat with cotton bales to protect it
  4. a disease cause by lack of ascorbic acid
  5. a gun used by the military
  6. a union general and the 18th U.S. president
  7. the leader of the confederate
  8. another name for the south
  9. a person who wants to get rid of slavery
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  1. ____ battle, also known as the battle of pittsburg landing
  2. ____ battle, also known as the battle of Hemp
  3. the first major battle of the civil war
  4. the most important battle in the civil war
  5. the president during 1860
  6. to make a unexpected attack on the other army
  7. A part of the military that uses boats
  8. the war during 1860
  9. ____ battle, that was fought on July 22nd
  10. a military boat with iron to protect it
  11. another name for the south

20 Clues: the war during 1860 • the president during 1860 • a gun used by the military • another name for the south • another name for the south • the leader of the confederate • ____ battle, The battle on June 3rd • A part of the military that uses boats • the first major battle of the civil war • a military boat with iron to protect it • a disease cause by lack of ascorbic acid • ...

the civil war (1861-1865) 2013-04-23

the civil war (1861-1865) crossword puzzle
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  1. t
  2. is
  3. [
  4. u
  5. c
  6. b
  7. h
  8. r
  9. hoarse
  10. a
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  1. "
  2. boats
  3. >
  4. h
  5. /
  6. h
  7. ;
  8. a
  9. i
  10. war ]

20 Clues: " • t • > • h • [ • / • h • u • c • ; • b • h • a • r • i • a • is • boats • war ] • hoarse

Civil War Crossword Puzzle 2024-10-21

Civil War Crossword Puzzle crossword puzzle
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  1. This proclamation declared slaves in Confederate states to be free.
  2. Union general known for his "March to the Sea."
  3. A significant speech given by Lincoln in 1863.
  4. The war's bloodiest single-day battle, fought in 1862.
  5. The river that became a critical supply line and was controlled after the Siege of Vicksburg.
  6. The Confederate general who surrendered at Appomattox Court House.
  7. Run The first major battle of the Civil War, also known as First Manassas.
  8. A major naval technology used during the Civil War.
  9. A famous nurse during the war who later founded the American Red Cross.
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  1. The war was largely about ending this institution.
  2. This city fell to Union forces, effectively splitting the Confederacy in half.
  3. Capital of the Confederacy.
  4. Address The speech delivered by Lincoln to honor fallen soldiers and redefine the purpose of the war.
  5. This technology, used during the Civil War, made traditional combat tactics obsolete.
  6. The Union general who accepted Lee's surrender.
  7. He was the main general for the Confederate Army.
  8. He was the President of the Confederate States.
  9. Commission An organization formed to help wounded soldiers during the war.
  10. The month in 1865 when the war officially ended.
  11. Site of the war's first shots fired in April 1861.

20 Clues: Capital of the Confederacy. • A significant speech given by Lincoln in 1863. • Union general known for his "March to the Sea." • The Union general who accepted Lee's surrender. • He was the President of the Confederate States. • The month in 1865 when the war officially ended. • He was the main general for the Confederate Army. • ...

Happenings of the Civil War 2025-04-02

Happenings of the Civil War crossword puzzle
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  1. U.S. currency introduced during the Civil War, not backed by gold but by the Union’s credibility.
  2. A Union victory that split the Confederacy in two by taking control of the Mississippi River.
  3. The Union strategy to blockade Southern ports, capture the Mississippi River, and take Richmond to defeat the Confederacy.
  4. Slave states that remained in the Union during the Civil War.
  5. The Confederate general who surrendered at Appomattox Court House, ending the war.
  6. The drafting of citizens for military service.
  7. A Union general who trained and planned for the Army of the Potomac.
  8. A Union campaign of destruction through Georgia, an early example of total war.
  9. Steam-powered warships armored with iron plates, making wooden ships obsolete.
  10. A Confederate victory in 1861 that ended hopes of a quick Northern triumph.
  11. A key three-day battle that marked the turning point of the war in favor of the Union.
  12. A Union general best known for his victory at Gettysburg.
  13. The Union general who led the North to victory and later became the 18th president of the U.S.
  14. The 16th president of the United States from 1861 to 1865.
  15. A faction of Republicans who pushed for greater rights for freed slaves.
  16. A Union general who led the destruction of Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley.
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  1. A speech by Abraham Lincoln emphasizing national unity and honoring fallen soldiers.
  2. The site in South Carolina where the first shots of the Civil War were fired.
  3. The location in Virginia where Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant, ending the Civil War.
  4. The actor who assassinated Abraham Lincoln at Ford’s Theatre.
  5. The bloodiest single-day battle in American history, halting Lee’s invasion of the North.
  6. The first African American military regiment from the North during the Civil War.
  7. The nation formed by seceding Southern states, led by Jefferson Davis.
  8. The order by Lincoln that declared enslaved people free in Confederate states.
  9. Violent protests against conscription in New York City, which turned into racial violence.
  10. A Confederate general known for his leadership and battlefield tactics.
  11. The holiday marking the announcement of freedom for enslaved people in Texas on June 19, 1865.
  12. The president of the Confederate States during the Civil War.
  13. The 17th president of the United States who took office after Lincoln’s assassination.

29 Clues: The drafting of citizens for military service. • A Union general best known for his victory at Gettysburg. • The 16th president of the United States from 1861 to 1865. • The actor who assassinated Abraham Lincoln at Ford’s Theatre. • Slave states that remained in the Union during the Civil War. • The president of the Confederate States during the Civil War. • ...

Civil War Crossword 2024-07-26

Civil War Crossword crossword puzzle
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  1. Required all citizens to assist in the capture of runaway slaves.
  2. Union had a major advantage in ______ mileage, allowing them to transport troops/supplies more rapidly
  3. A person who wanted to end slavery.
  4. Northern Civil War strategy to starve (or squeeze) the South by blockading seaports and controlling the Mississippi River
  5. A legal principle that protects individuals from arbitrary detention; President Lincoln suspended it during the Civil War to deal with dissent and maintain public order.
  6. Confederate General Lee surrenders to Union General Grant at _______ Court House in Virginia on April 9th, 1865.
  7. New bullet used in the Civil War, l increased the effective lethal range of the standard infantry unit from a maximum of 100 yards to 300 yards.
  8. Led the "March to the Sea" campaign and implemented total war tactics.
  9. An abolitionist who attempted to lead a slave revolt at Harpers Ferry
  10. Famous Civil War photographer
  11. Leader of the Union Army at the end of the war, future POTUS.
  12. executive order issued by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863 that freed slaves in the Confederate states
  13. ________ was the first state to secede.
  14. Marked the beginning of the Civil War
  15. President of the Confederacy
  16. Founder of the American Red Cross, provided medical aid during the war.
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  1. the tendency to be more concerned with the interests of your ]region than with the problems and interests of the country
  2. A period of violent political confrontations between anti-slavery "Free-Staters" and pro-slavery "Border Ruffians"
  3. POTUS during the Civil War
  4. Repealed the Missouri Compromise
  5. POTUS that appealed to the "common" man, expanded rights for non land-owning Whites.
  6. deadliest single day in United States history, with over 22,000 casualties.
  7. Leader of Confederate Army, was a renowned general
  8. Whats my favorite class?
  9. sealing off a place to prevent goods or people from entering or leaving.
  10. California Admitted as a Free State in this legislation
  11. The idea that people should have the right to decide.
  12. Slave states that did not secede from the Union
  13. Who came out victorious in the Battle of Gettysburg?
  14. was an enslaved African American man who, along with his wife, Harriet, unsuccessfully sued for the freedom of themselves in a milestone Supreme Court decision.

30 Clues: Whats my favorite class? • POTUS during the Civil War • President of the Confederacy • Famous Civil War photographer • Repealed the Missouri Compromise • A person who wanted to end slavery. • Marked the beginning of the Civil War • ________ was the first state to secede. • Slave states that did not secede from the Union • Leader of Confederate Army, was a renowned general • ...

Civil War/Reconstruction 2021-09-30

Civil War/Reconstruction crossword puzzle
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  1. Lincoln needed this amount of voters to set his plan to pardon southerners in motion
  2. The end of the Confederates took place here
  3. The main general who served the Union and later became the 18th
  4. Landowners turned to this when their source of labor dried up
  5. This foreign country might have joined with the South
  6. The first Civil War submarine
  7. This change to our Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude
  8. The South dubbed certain Northerners they thought were exploiting them this name
  9. This bureau provided protection, food, shelter, education for former slaves
  10. The main general of the Confederates
  11. Loyalty to one instead of the whole
  12. The act of declaring a federal law unconstitutional
  13. This compromise declared that no slavery was to be above a certain state's southern border
  14. The civil war was also thought to be this kind of war
  15. The main cause of the civil war
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  1. Southern laws that nearly duplicated slavery conditions
  2. The South were called this
  3. The battle that started the Civil War
  4. Took over after Lincoln and made a lot of people in Congress angry
  5. 1865-1877
  6. This change to our Constitution ensures everyone has citizen rights
  7. This bill from Congress was made to PUNISH the South
  8. This executive order, or proclamation, freed the slaves in the South
  9. "Honest Abe"; the 16th
  10. The deadliest battle of the Civil War
  11. This change to our Constitution prohibits discrimination on citizens' voting rights
  12. He sued his owner, only to be told that he was not a citizen, but property
  13. A particular group of Republicans in the 1860s that wanted to abolish slavery
  14. Lincoln wanted this to return to its former state
  15. The act of splitting away

30 Clues: 1865-1877 • "Honest Abe"; the 16th • The act of splitting away • The South were called this • The first Civil War submarine • The main cause of the civil war • Loyalty to one instead of the whole • The main general of the Confederates • The battle that started the Civil War • The deadliest battle of the Civil War • The end of the Confederates took place here • ...

History Extra Credit 2016-01-04

History Extra Credit crossword puzzle
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  1. War between the Union states of the North and the Confederate states of the South; fought from 1861 to 1865
  2. Type of veto a chief executive may use after a legislature has adjourned; it is applied when the chief executive does not formally sign or reject a bill within the time period allowed to do so.
  3. People who travel from place to place, usually following available food sources,instead of living in one location.
  4. Process by which people of one culture merge into and become part of another culture.
  5. Agreement designed to ease tensions caused by the expansion of slavery into western territories.
  6. nickname for a white Southern Republican after the Civil War.
  7. A policy of favoring native-born Americans over immigrants.
  8. The first women's rights convention in United States history, held in 1848.
  9. First major battle of the Civil War, won by the Confederates in July 1861
  10. Required military service
  11. Place where weapons are stored.
  12. To join or attach, as in the joining of a new territory to an existing country
  13. The right to vote
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  1. Regulation that prohibited certain private activities people considered immoral, such as drinking alcohol on Sundays.
  2. A program implemented by the federal government to repair the damage to the South caused by the Civil War and to restore the southern states to the Union.
  3. An official forgiveness of a crime.
  4. Railway extending from coast to coast.
  5. The United States as a national unit; or, during the Civil War, the North.
  6. Procedure that permits voters to remove public officials from office before the next election.
  7. In the Civil War, the states between the North and the South.

20 Clues: The right to vote • Required military service • Place where weapons are stored. • An official forgiveness of a crime. • Railway extending from coast to coast. • A policy of favoring native-born Americans over immigrants. • nickname for a white Southern Republican after the Civil War. • In the Civil War, the states between the North and the South. • ...

George B. McClellan 2019-05-17

George B. McClellan crossword puzzle
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  1. The side that he fought for.
  2. The continent McClellan traveled to to study Crimean War tactics.
  3. was his role in the Civil War.
  4. The war McClellan fought in just before the Civil War.
  5. McClellan graduated ______ in a class of 59 students in 1846.
  6. McClellan's failed attempt to capture Richmond, Virginia.
  7. The state that McClellan governed in his later life.
  8. McClellan attended __________.
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  1. State in which McClellan was born.
  2. The book McClellan wrote at the end of his life.
  3. The war's largest army that was also ran by McClellan.
  4. McClellan's first army in the Civil War
  5. One of his two nicknames.
  6. McClellan's wife.
  7. The number of children McClellan had.

15 Clues: McClellan's wife. • One of his two nicknames. • The side that he fought for. • was his role in the Civil War. • McClellan attended __________. • State in which McClellan was born. • The number of children McClellan had. • McClellan's first army in the Civil War • The book McClellan wrote at the end of his life. • The state that McClellan governed in his later life. • ...

Grey Flash Card Crossword 2020-03-25

Grey Flash Card Crossword crossword puzzle
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  1. / She gave a speech entitled, "Ain't I a Woman?"
  2. / Someone who is against slavery
  3. / Main issue in the Lincoln-Douglas debates
  4. / American Civil War started here
  5. / Last name of the most successful Union general
  6. / The ____-Nebraska Act said that these territories could decide for themselves if they were slave or free.
  7. / Another name for Southern states during the American Civil War
  8. / This Proclamation freed slaves in the South
  9. / Amendment that guaranteed equal protection of the law to all U.S. persons
  10. / This book stirred up worldwide anti-slavery feelings.
  11. / Last name of the editor of the "Liberator"
  12. / Last name of the most successful Confederate general
  13. / This compromise outlawed slavery north of the 36 30’ line
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  1. / 1st state to secede from the Union
  2. / People tried to improve society in this era.
  3. / Another name for Northern states during the American Civil War
  4. / Last name of the editor of "The North Star"
  5. / The American Civil War ended in 18 ___ ___.
  6. / Last name of the women who wrote 'Declaration of Sentiments'
  7. / President of the confederate sates
  8. / The American Civil War started in 18___ ___.
  9. / Amendment that ended slavery
  10. / This decision denied slaves citizenship and struck down the Missouri Compromise.
  11. / Amendment that gave all American men the right to vote
  12. / Speech in which President Lincoln said that government should be "of the people, by the people, and for the people."
  13. / Last name of the Senator from Massachusetts who supported the Union and the Compromise of 1850
  14. / Last name of the President of the Union in the American Civil War
  15. / Last name of the person who seized Harper's Ferry
  16. / Last name of the "Great Compromiser;" He worked out the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850.
  17. / The Compromise of 18__ said that California would be a free state.

30 Clues: / Amendment that ended slavery • / Someone who is against slavery • / American Civil War started here • / 1st state to secede from the Union • / President of the confederate sates • / Main issue in the Lincoln-Douglas debates • / Last name of the editor of the "Liberator" • / Last name of the editor of "The North Star" • ...

Civil War Crossword 2024-10-24

Civil War Crossword crossword puzzle
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  1. ____ battle, The battle on June 3rd
  2. ____ battle, also known as the battle of sharpsburg
  3. a military boat with cotton bales to protect it
  4. a disease cause by lack of ascorbic acid
  5. a gun used by the military
  6. a union general and the 18th U.S. president
  7. the leader of the confederate
  8. another name for the south
  9. a person who wants to get rid of slavery
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  1. ____ battle, also known as the battle of pittsburg landing
  2. ____ battle, also known as the battle of Hemp
  3. the first major battle of the civil war
  4. the most important battle in the civil war
  5. the president during 1860
  6. to make a unexpected attack on the other army
  7. A part of the military that uses boats
  8. the war during 1860
  9. ____ battle, that was fought on July 22nd
  10. a military boat with iron to protect it
  11. another name for the south

20 Clues: the war during 1860 • the president during 1860 • a gun used by the military • another name for the south • another name for the south • the leader of the confederate • ____ battle, The battle on June 3rd • A part of the military that uses boats • the first major battle of the civil war • a military boat with iron to protect it • a disease cause by lack of ascorbic acid • ...

1815-1865 2024-12-04

1815-1865 crossword puzzle
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  1. Lincoln’s wife
  2. The general Lincoln appointed to lead the Union Army in 1864
  3. The war during Lincoln’s presidency (Civil)
  4. Lincoln grew up in this type of frontier structure
  5. The theater where Lincoln was assassinated
  6. Lincoln’s occupation before becoming president
  7. State where Lincoln was born
  8. Lincoln’s famous 1863 speech honoring soldiers killed in battle (Gettysburg)
  9. The fort attacked in 1861 starting the Civil War
  10. The assassin who killed Lincoln
  11. Lincoln served as a representative for this Midwestern state
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  1. Lincoln delivered his second inaugural address in this year
  2. Lincoln's nickname, referring to his honesty
  3. The Southern states formed this during the Civil War (Confederacy)
  4. Lincoln was the first president from this political party
  5. Lincoln issued this declaration to free slaves in Confederate states
  6. amendment passed after his death, abolishing slavery
  7. Lincoln signed this act that offered land to settlers in 1862
  8. Lincoln debated this Illinois Senator in 1858
  9. The famous document Lincoln described as "four score and seven years ago"

20 Clues: Lincoln’s wife • State where Lincoln was born • The assassin who killed Lincoln • The theater where Lincoln was assassinated • The war during Lincoln’s presidency (Civil) • Lincoln's nickname, referring to his honesty • Lincoln debated this Illinois Senator in 1858 • Lincoln’s occupation before becoming president • The fort attacked in 1861 starting the Civil War • ...

The Significance of Juneteenth 2025-06-12

The Significance of Juneteenth crossword puzzle
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  1. An official public announcement
  2. Period following the Civil War
  3. Texas city where Juneteenth originated
  4. Cultural traditions passed down through generations
  5. Union General who announced emancipation in Texas
  6. State where the last slaves were freed
  7. The act of ending slavery
  8. Freedom from oppression or tyranny
  9. Practice of owning human beings as property
  10. Discriminatory practice in housing and services
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  1. Civil rights activists who rode interstate buses
  2. The act of freeing slaves
  3. Festive observance of an event
  4. Southern states during the Civil War
  5. Fair treatment and equality under the law
  6. A special anniversary or celebration
  7. President who issued the Emancipation Proclamation
  8. Holiday celebrating the end of slavery in the US
  9. Northern states during the Civil War
  10. State of being free
  11. Advancement towards equality and justice
  12. Freedom from control or influence of others
  13. State of being equal in rights and opportunities
  14. Separation of people based on race
  15. Legal, social, or ethical entitlements

25 Clues: State of being free • The act of freeing slaves • The act of ending slavery • Festive observance of an event • Period following the Civil War • An official public announcement • Separation of people based on race • Freedom from oppression or tyranny • Southern states during the Civil War • A special anniversary or celebration • Northern states during the Civil War • ...

Reconstruction - Comaris 2020-12-11

Reconstruction - Comaris crossword puzzle
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  1. Laws targeting African Americans that denied basic rights and freedoms.
  2. Laws that focused on separating Blacks and Whites after Plessy v. Ferguson 1896.
  3. Northerners who moved to the South following the Civil War
  4. A group that terrorized African Americans and Radical Republicans in the south after the Civil War
  5. Officials could make anyone take a test that was purposely confusing and was created in order to allow officials to pass people they like and fail people they did not like.
  6. What group was responsible for the Colfax Massacre in which a group of white men stormed a courthouse in Louisiana and sought to overthrow the mostly black elected government
  7. System of farming in which farmers rent land, seeds, and tools, paying for these things with a share of the crops
  8. Abolished indentured servitude and the practice of slavery in the United States
  9. Granted suffrage to African Americans males
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  1. White Southerners who worked with Northerners, and who joined the Republican party, following the Civil War
  2. Separation of people based on race
  3. Federal agency that was designed to help formerly enslaved people following the Civil war
  4. Period of rebuilding the South following the Civil War
  5. A requirement that would prevent anyone from voting, whose grandfather also did not have the right to vote. Purposely created to target formerly enslaved people and their descendants.
  6. Members of the republican party that pushed for laws that would give African Americans more equality in America, like the 14th & 15th Amendment
  7. Granted full U.S. citizenship to formerly enslaved people
  8. A white supremacist militia terrorist group that operated in N. & S Carolina after the Civil War
  9. Voting tax that was required in some Southern states

18 Clues: Separation of people based on race • Granted suffrage to African Americans males • Voting tax that was required in some Southern states • Period of rebuilding the South following the Civil War • Granted full U.S. citizenship to formerly enslaved people • Northerners who moved to the South following the Civil War • ...

Civil War Crossword 2022-04-06

Civil War Crossword crossword puzzle
Across
  1. the war from 1861 to 1865
  2. barns and houses were turned into these by the confederates
  3. hard food that civil war soldiers ate
  4. _______ Davis, president of the confederacy
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  1. state where a lot of the civil war was fought
  2. One of the worst battles of the civil war was fought in this town in Pennsylvania, and the name of a famous speech (address)
  3. North vs _______
  4. they fought in the civil war
  5. Abe ______, president of the Union
  6. name a famous civil war battle in 1862

10 Clues: North vs _______ • the war from 1861 to 1865 • they fought in the civil war • Abe ______, president of the Union • hard food that civil war soldiers ate • name a famous civil war battle in 1862 • _______ Davis, president of the confederacy • state where a lot of the civil war was fought • barns and houses were turned into these by the confederates • ...

Apush Unit 5 2024-05-03

Apush Unit 5 crossword puzzle
Across
  1. name for the north during the civil war
  2. Act that decides Nebraska should be a free state and Kansas should be a slave state
  3. Party from 1848 to 1854 against the expansion of slavery to western territories
  4. the withdrawal of states from a nation
  5. The american idea of expanding west to settle all of North AmericaTreatyofGuadalupe treaty that ended the Mexican-American war
  6. State that the gold rush occurred in
  7. Amendment Amendment that freed all slaves in the United States
  8. political party that was anti-Jackson and supported higher tariffs
  9. Act that makes it illegal to know and not doing anything about runaway slaves
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  1. name for the South during the civil war
  2. battle that led lincoln to issue the emancipation proclamation
  3. State the Mexican-American war was over
  4. white suprmeisit group that
  5. union general that led them to victory
  6. slave states that are slave states but are also loyal to the union
  7. treaty that ended the Mexican-American war
  8. pre-civil war
  9. Letting states choose whether to be free or slave states themselves
  10. commanding general of the confederate army

19 Clues: pre-civil war • white suprmeisit group that • State that the gold rush occurred in • union general that led them to victory • the withdrawal of states from a nation • name for the South during the civil war • State the Mexican-American war was over • name for the north during the civil war • treaty that ended the Mexican-American war • ...

Apush Unit 5 2024-05-03

Apush Unit 5 crossword puzzle
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  1. name for the north during the civil war
  2. Act that decides Nebraska should be a free state and Kansas should be a slave state
  3. Party from 1848 to 1854 against the expansion of slavery to western territories
  4. the withdrawal of states from a nation
  5. The american idea of expanding west to settle all of North AmericaTreatyofGuadalupe treaty that ended the Mexican-American war
  6. State that the gold rush occurred in
  7. Amendment Amendment that freed all slaves in the United States
  8. political party that was anti-Jackson and supported higher tariffs
  9. Act that makes it illegal to know and not doing anything about runaway slaves
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  1. name for the South during the civil war
  2. battle that led lincoln to issue the emancipation proclamation
  3. State the Mexican-American war was over
  4. white suprmeisit group that
  5. union general that led them to victory
  6. slave states that are slave states but are also loyal to the union
  7. treaty that ended the Mexican-American war
  8. pre-civil war
  9. Letting states choose whether to be free or slave states themselves
  10. commanding general of the confederate army

19 Clues: pre-civil war • white suprmeisit group that • State that the gold rush occurred in • union general that led them to victory • the withdrawal of states from a nation • name for the South during the civil war • State the Mexican-American war was over • name for the north during the civil war • treaty that ended the Mexican-American war • ...

Apush Unit 5 2024-05-03

Apush Unit 5 crossword puzzle
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  1. white suprmeisit group that
  2. name for the north during the civil war
  3. name for the South during the civil war
  4. slave states that are slave states but are also loyal to the union
  5. Party from 1848 to 1854 against the expansion of slavery to western territories
  6. commanding general of the confederate army
  7. battle that led lincoln to issue the emancipation proclamation
  8. The american idea of expanding west to settle all of North AmericaTreatyofGuadalupe treaty that ended the Mexican-American war
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  1. treaty that ended the Mexican-American war
  2. political party that was anti-Jackson and supported higher tariffs
  3. Act that decides Nebraska should be a free state and Kansas should be a slave state
  4. Act that makes it illegal to know and not doing anything about runaway slaves
  5. State the Mexican-American war was over
  6. Amendment Amendment that freed all slaves in the United States
  7. pre-civil war
  8. the withdrawal of states from a nation
  9. Letting states choose whether to be free or slave states themselves
  10. union general that led them to victory
  11. State that the gold rush occurred in

19 Clues: pre-civil war • white suprmeisit group that • State that the gold rush occurred in • the withdrawal of states from a nation • union general that led them to victory • name for the north during the civil war • State the Mexican-American war was over • name for the South during the civil war • treaty that ended the Mexican-American war • ...

Civil War, Reconstruction, and The Gilded Age Review 2025-12-14

Civil War, Reconstruction, and The Gilded Age Review crossword puzzle
Across
  1. deadliest one day battle in the Civil War
  2. a location in New York City where immigrants came into the US
  3. the time period from 1870-1900 in America
  4. this amendment abolished or ended slavery
  5. first battle in the Civil War where the South fought well
  6. leader of the Confederates at Gettysburg
  7. this man made a fortune in the oil industry
  8. this was the approach Lincoln wanted for the southerners
  9. an attempt to give land to Native Americans after the harsh treatment they received
  10. this man made his fortune in the railroad industry
  11. these were put in place in the South to make life difficult for former slaves
  12. this amendment gave former slaves the right to vote
  13. a charge on the 3rd day of Gettysburg that was a failure for the South
  14. this is when a government official is accused of crimes
  15. three day battle that was the turning point of the Civil War
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  1. time period immediately after the Civil War
  2. when workers organized for better working conditions
  3. this amendment gave citizenship to former slaves
  4. this was a major advantage for the North at Gettysburg
  5. he replaced Lincoln after the assassination
  6. speech given by President Lincoln at Gettysburg
  7. when General Sherman burned Georgia
  8. a process that removed impurities from steel so it was stronger
  9. a courthouse in Virginia where Lee surrendered to Grant
  10. a government agency in place to help people after the Civil War
  11. battle location where General George Custer was defeated by the Lakota Sioux
  12. location where Lincoln was killed after the war

27 Clues: when General Sherman burned Georgia • leader of the Confederates at Gettysburg • deadliest one day battle in the Civil War • the time period from 1870-1900 in America • this amendment abolished or ended slavery • time period immediately after the Civil War • he replaced Lincoln after the assassination • this man made a fortune in the oil industry • ...

Civil War Crossword 2024-10-24

Civil War Crossword crossword puzzle
Across
  1. a disease cause by lack of ascorbic acid
  2. A part of the military that uses boats
  3. ____ battle, The battle on June 3rd
  4. the most important battle in the civil war
  5. a person who wants to get rid of slavery
  6. a union general and the 18th U.S. president
  7. another name for the south
  8. to make a unexpected attack on the other army
  9. ____ battle, also known as the battle of Hemp
  10. a military boat with iron to protect it
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  1. the war during 1860
  2. ____ battle, also known as the battle of sharpsburg
  3. a military boat with cotton bales to protect it
  4. the leader of the confederate
  5. ____ battle, also known as the battle of pittsburg landing
  6. ____ battle, that was fought on July 22nd
  7. the first major battle of the civil war
  8. the president during 1860
  9. a gun used by the military
  10. another name for the south

20 Clues: the war during 1860 • the president during 1860 • another name for the south • a gun used by the military • another name for the south • the leader of the confederate • ____ battle, The battle on June 3rd • A part of the military that uses boats • the first major battle of the civil war • a military boat with iron to protect it • a disease cause by lack of ascorbic acid • ...

Civil War Crossword 2023-01-06

Civil War Crossword crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Bloody civil war battle
  2. first major battle of the civil war
  3. civil war battle in pennsylvania
  4. prohibited all forms of slavery
  5. mississippi river
  6. paper currency
Down
  1. confederate first shots
  2. Northern Democrats attacking Lincoln
  3. war that ended in a draw
  4. civil war battle that confederates won

10 Clues: paper currency • mississippi river • confederate first shots • Bloody civil war battle • war that ended in a draw • prohibited all forms of slavery • civil war battle in pennsylvania • first major battle of the civil war • Northern Democrats attacking Lincoln • civil war battle that confederates won

Chapter 17 crossword puzzle 2023-11-28

Chapter 17 crossword puzzle crossword puzzle
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  1. tax- a tax paid to be able to vote
  2. Fifteenth Amendment- an amendment to the U.S Constitution ratified in 1870 which said race could not be used to deny voting rights
  3. Klux Klan- a secret racist organization formed in 1866 that work to keep the freedmen voting after the civil war
  4. - unfair treatment of a person or group because or prejudice
  5. crop lien- a system of credit which allowed farmers to receive commodities such as food , supplies and seeds on loan or credit and pay this debt back after their crop was harvested and sold therefore there was a lien against the crop the amount of credit that was received was based on the estimated value of the crop
  6. sharecropping - agricultural system common after the civil war where land less farmers worked the land of a landowner who also supplied a house farming tools and animals seed and fertilizer in return for a share of the crop harvested
  7. georgia democrats who in the period immediately following reconstruction worked save the state from the north reconstruction policies
  8. Amendment - an amendment to the U.S constitution ratified in 1865 that made slavery
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  1. a newly freed slaves
  2. the period immediately after the civil war when the south rebuilt and the southern states returned to the union
  3. codes- a set of laws passed by georgia and most southern states after the civil war to restrict the rights to freedmen
  4. negative nickname given to northerners who moved to the south after the civil war
  5. Fourteenth Amendment- an amendment to the U.S Constitution ratified in 1868 that granted citizenship to all citizens to all born in the united states this broad language included former slaves
  6. lease system -a system in georgia after the civil war in which prisoners were leased to companies were supposed to provide housing and food
  7. supremacy- white control of government and society based on the belief that the white race is a superior to any other race
  8. to separate by race
  9. Bureau- a federal government organization established in 1865 that helped a newly freed slaves after the civil war
  10. scalawag, - negative nickname given to southerners who supported the republicans during reconstruction
  11. tenant farming- an agricultural system common after the civil war where a farmer worked the land of a landowner in exchange for cash or an agreed upon share of the harvest tenant farmers usually owned some agricultural equipment and farm animals

19 Clues: to separate by race • a newly freed slaves • tax- a tax paid to be able to vote • - unfair treatment of a person or group because or prejudice • negative nickname given to northerners who moved to the south after the civil war • Amendment - an amendment to the U.S constitution ratified in 1865 that made slavery • ...

Civil War Review 2021-05-27

Civil War Review crossword puzzle
Across
  1. This battle gained the North the control of the Mississippi
  2. This man assassinated Abraham Lincoln
  3. Lincoln was a member of this political party - created in 1854 and still around today
  4. This proclamation during the war freed all the slaves in the warring Confederate states
  5. The North had way more of "these" and helped them win the war
  6. Most of the fighting in the Civil War took place here
  7. President of the Confederacy
  8. Sight of prion in Georgia where thousands of Union Soldiers died
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  1. Lincoln's vice president and later President of the U.S.
  2. This crop helped fund the Southern war effort
  3. Site of Union cemetery and Lincoln's most famous address
  4. Following the Emancipation Proclamation - the goal of the war for the Union was to end this.
  5. The Confederacy hoped to get help from this European nation
  6. Fighting in the Civil War began here
  7. Victory here gave the North control of the cotton trade
  8. Most famous of Confederate Generals
  9. Name of the Northern strategy to defeat the South
  10. The final surrender in the Civil War took place here

18 Clues: President of the Confederacy • Most famous of Confederate Generals • Fighting in the Civil War began here • This man assassinated Abraham Lincoln • This crop helped fund the Southern war effort • Name of the Northern strategy to defeat the South • The final surrender in the Civil War took place here • Most of the fighting in the Civil War took place here • ...

Civil War Review Puzzle 2025-01-23

Civil War Review Puzzle crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Proclamation that freed all slaves in confederate territories and made the war about ending slavery
  2. The Union had a higher ______ which meant they had more people
  3. Amendment that granted voting rights
  4. First bloody battle of Civil War and Confederate Win
  5. Union president that won the Civil War and ended slavery
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  1. Amendment that ended slavery
  2. First battle of Civil War
  3. Where ports of entry were blocked for the Anaconda Plan
  4. Amendment that granted civil rights
  5. First major loss for Confederates in North and the turning point for Union victory
  6. Country that Confederates hoped would save them from blockade
  7. Union victory that gave them control of Mississippi
  8. Last name of woman that led the underground railroad
  9. Union General that got fired and ran against Lincoln in election of 1864
  10. The South believed that Cotton was "____" and would win them the war

15 Clues: First battle of Civil War • Amendment that ended slavery • Amendment that granted civil rights • Amendment that granted voting rights • Union victory that gave them control of Mississippi • Last name of woman that led the underground railroad • First bloody battle of Civil War and Confederate Win • Where ports of entry were blocked for the Anaconda Plan • ...