civil war Crossword Puzzles
Reconstruction 2022-08-25
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- helped African Americans get basics
- former slave
- pay money to vote
- Northerner who made a profit after Civil War
- if your relative could vote, you could
- symbol of lost cause; urged south to stop fighting
- hate group created by former Confederates
- amendment that gave voting rights
- represented African Americans; wanted rights
- ended Reconstruction; troops out of south
- test have to read or write to vote
- amendment that gave citizenship
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- created segregation
- symbolized by Lee; said slavery was good
- political party of Lincoln and African- Ams
- laws that restricted African Americans
- created by Jim Crow Laws
- rebuilding the south after the Civil War
- called for quick Reconstruction; not punish South
- amendment that ended slavery
20 Clues: former slave • pay money to vote • created segregation • created by Jim Crow Laws • amendment that ended slavery • amendment that gave citizenship • amendment that gave voting rights • test have to read or write to vote • helped African Americans get basics • laws that restricted African Americans • if your relative could vote, you could • symbolized by Lee; said slavery was good • ...
26 2025-02-15
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- Cold War weapon experiments
- Civil rights protest method
- Common disaster in the 60s
- Giant waves causing devastation
- Militant civil rights group
- Used in communication advances
- Counterculture youth movement
- First mission to the moon
- Riot sparking gay rights movement
- Movement for racial equality
- Railway disasters of the era
- Internet precursor
- Famous 1969 music festival
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- Protesters against Vietnam War
- First successful transplant
- Tragedies in coal industries
- Second wave in the 1960s
- Technology emerging in the 60s
- Women’s labor rights demand
- Berkeley protest movement
- Campus activism in the 60s
- 1969 giant leap for mankind
- Natural disaster affecting millions
- Destructive fires in the 60s
- Extreme storms in the 1960s
25 Clues: Internet precursor • Second wave in the 1960s • Berkeley protest movement • First mission to the moon • Common disaster in the 60s • Campus activism in the 60s • Famous 1969 music festival • First successful transplant • Cold War weapon experiments • Civil rights protest method • Women’s labor rights demand • Militant civil rights group • 1969 giant leap for mankind • ...
Unit 8 Vocabulary Crossword 2025-04-24
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- a speech given by a president when they take office
- The battle was a defeat for the Confederacy and halted the Confederate invasion of the North. This was the dealiest battle of the war, with over 50,000 casualties
- The confederate victory gave the South a surge of confidence and shocked many in the North, who realized the war would not be won as easily as they had hoped
- a war fought exclusively between armies in which only enemy soldiers and military infrastructure are targeted
- The union would use naval forces to strangle the South by blockading imports of military supplies and exporting cotton
- President of the Union during the civil war
- This Union victory ended any hopes any hopes the Confederates had of blocking the Union advance into northern Mississippi
- a collection of souther states that seceded from the United States during the American Civil War
- the United States
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- A union naval officer that led various naval blockades
- a strategy that included the systematic destruction of any property or supplies, including those belonging to civilians, that are essential to the enemy's ability to wage war
- issued on January 1st,1863, by president Abraham Lincoln that declared "that all persons held as enslaved people" within the rebellious state were free
- President of the Confederate states of America
- The state of lasting forever
- led virginias Confederate army upon its secession from the Union, became the commander of the entire confederate Army
- Lasting forever
- Confederate, earned the nickname "stonewall" because he refused to back down
- Military historians consider the battle Even so, the Union kept confederates confined and enabled President Lincol to release the Emancipation Proclamation on September 22, 1862
- worked his way up the union ranks during the civil war. president lincoln elevated him to the rank of lieutenant general
- The confederate surrender at this battle occurred just a day after the Gettysburg surrender
20 Clues: Lasting forever • the United States • The state of lasting forever • President of the Union during the civil war • President of the Confederate states of America • a speech given by a president when they take office • A union naval officer that led various naval blockades • Confederate, earned the nickname "stonewall" because he refused to back down • ...
Civil War 2023-05-19
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- The Battle of Gettysburg was the _______ Battle in the Civil War.
- _____ Soldiers fought on both sides of the war.
- About ______ bodies were left in Gettysburg.
- _________ lost the most soldiers at the Battle of Gettysburg.
- The _____ contractors cleaned up the Civil War Battlefields.
- The Battle of Gettysburg lasted _____ whole days.
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- The last dead ______ was found in The Battle of Gettysburg field in 1996.
- 5,000 _______ were lost during the Battle Of Gettysburg.
- _______ thought that The Battle of Gettysburg was most important.
- About three ______ people died in the Civil War.
10 Clues: About ______ bodies were left in Gettysburg. • _____ Soldiers fought on both sides of the war. • About three ______ people died in the Civil War. • The Battle of Gettysburg lasted _____ whole days. • 5,000 _______ were lost during the Battle Of Gettysburg. • The _____ contractors cleaned up the Civil War Battlefields. • ...
7th Grade Crossword Mackenzie 2024-01-22
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- What are states that were slave states that stayed in the union during the civil war?
- What does it mean "to make easy for something to happen?
- A war between citizen of the same country.
- What state caused a war with Mexico?
- What is the loud boom in the sky during a storm called?
- What are proslavery bands from Missouri who battled against antislavery forces in Kansas called?
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- What state do you live in?
- What do you read?
- What was the first major battle in the civil war?
- What do you use to write with?
- What does it mean "to be made up of?"
- What country do we live in?
- What was the 23 state?
- What is a red fruit?
- What do many people have as pets?
- What is the first color of the rainbow?
16 Clues: What do you read? • What is a red fruit? • What was the 23 state? • What state do you live in? • What country do we live in? • What do you use to write with? • What do many people have as pets? • What state caused a war with Mexico? • What does it mean "to be made up of?" • What is the first color of the rainbow? • A war between citizen of the same country. • ...
Nursing History-People 2024-09-09
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- Served as superintendent of the Female Nurses of the Army during the Civil War; was given the authority and the responsibility for recruiting and equipping a corps of army nurses; was a pioneering crusader for the reform of the treatment of the mentally ill
- A member of the original Victorian Order of Nurses for Canada (a group that provided public health nursing); organized the Canadian Women’s Army Corps during World War II
- Provided nursing care to soldiers during the Civil War and worked for the women’s movement
- Director of the nursing school at Toronto General Hospital and one of the founders of the Canadian Nurses Association
- Volunteered to care for wounds and feed Union soldiers during the Civil War; served as the supervisor of nurses for the Army of the James, organizing hospitals and nurses; established the Red Cross in the United States in 1882
- Graduated in 1873 from the New England Hospital for Women and Children in Boston, Massachusetts, as the first trained nurse in the United States; became the night superintendent of Bellevue Hospital in 1874 and began the practice of keeping records and writing orders
- Organized diet kitchens, laundries, and an ambulance service, and supervised nursing staff during the Civil War
- Became the first professor of nursing in the world as a faculty member of Teachers’ College, Columbia University; with Lavinia Dock, published the four-volume History of Nursing
- Established a neighborhood nursing service for the sick poor of the Lower East Side in New York City; the founder of public health nursing
- Provided social services within a neighborhood setting; a leader for women’s rights; recipient of the 1931 Nobel Peace prize
- A leader in nursing and nursing education; organized the nursing school at Johns Hopkins Hospital; initiated policies that included limiting the number of hours in a day’s work and wrote a textbook to help student learning; the first president of the Nurses Associated Alumnae of the United States and Canada (which later became the American Nurses Association)
- Graduated from the New England Hospital for Women and Children in 1879 as America’s first Black nurse
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- After the Crimean War, established the first training school for nurses and wrote books about health care and nursing education, disaster nurse, care provider, educator, manager, consultant, and statistician
- Established a training program for nurses at the Montreal General Hospital (the first 3-year program in North America)
- Established the Frontier Nursing Service and one of the first midwifery schools in the United States
- nurse during the Civil War; returned to New York and organized the New York Charities Aid Association to improve care of the sick in Bellevue Hospital; recommended standards for nursing education
- A nursing leader and women’s rights activist; instrumental in the Constitutional amendment giving women the right to vote
- A nurse and an abolitionist; active in the underground railroad movement before joining the Union Army during the Civil War
18 Clues: Provided nursing care to soldiers during the Civil War and worked for the women’s movement • Established the Frontier Nursing Service and one of the first midwifery schools in the United States • Graduated from the New England Hospital for Women and Children in 1879 as America’s first Black nurse • ...
Road to the Civil War/Civil War 2021-04-19
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- a period of rapid growth in the use of machines in manufacturing and production that began in the mid-1700s.
- American industrialist; he developed a steel plow to ease difficulty of turning thick soil on the Great Plains.
- a social reform effort that began in the mid-1800s and promoted the idea of having all children educated in a common place regardless of social class or background.
- American inventor; he patented an improved sewing machine and by 1860, was the largest manufacturer of sewing machines in the country.
- a Union Civil War victory that turned the tide against the confederates at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
- a political party formed in the 1850s to stop the spread of slavery in the West.
- the rapid growth in the speed and convenience of transportation.
- American Educator, he is considered the father of American public education. He was a leader of the common-school movement, advocating education for all children.
- American abolitionist and writer, he escaped slavery and became a leading African American spokesman and writer. He published his biography, The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, and founded the abolitionist newspaper, the North Star.
- the act of formally withdrawing from the Union.
- an antislavery novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe that showed northerners the violent reality of slavery and drew many people to the abolitionists' cause.
- a proposal to outlaw slavery in the territory added to the United States by the Mexican Cession; passed in the House of Representatives but was defeated in the Senate.
- 16th president of the United States, he promoted equal rights for African Americans in the famed Lincoln-Douglas debates. He issued the Emancipation Proclamation and set in motion the Civil War, but he was determined to preserve the Union.
- Henry Clay's proposed agreement that allowed California to enter the Union as a free state and divided the rest of the Mexican Cession into two territories where slavery would be decided by popular sovereignty.
- a machine invented by Eli Whitney in 1793 to remove seeds from short-staple cotton; revolutionized the cotton industry.
- Virginia town where General Robert E. Lee was forced to surrender, thus ending the Civil War.
- American philanthropist and social reformer, she helped change the prison system nationwide.
- American reformer, she planned the Seneca Falls Convention with Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
- the use of water powered textile mills that employed young, unmarried women in the 1800s.
- a region stretching from South Carolina to east Texas where most U.S. cotton was produced during the mid-1800s
- a social reform effort begun in the mid-1800s to encourage people to drink less alcohol.
- First and only president of the Confederate States of America after the election of President Abraham Lincoln in 1860 led to the secession of many southern states.
- an agency established by Congress in 1865 to help poor people throughout the South.
- 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.
- cloth
- a period of religious evangelism that began in the 1790s and became widespread in the United States by the 1830s.
- American journalist and reformer; he published the famous antislavery newspaper, the Liberator, and helped found the American Anti-Slavery Society, promoting immediate emancipation and racial equality.
- a law that allowed voters in Kansas and Nebraska to choose whether to allow slavery.
- a rebellion in which Nat Turner led a group of slaves in Virginia in an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow and kill planter families.
- a machine perfected by Samuel F.B. Morse in 1832 that uses pulses of electric current to send messages across long distances through wires.
- a secret society created by white southerners in 1866 that sued terror and violence to keep African Americans from obtaining their civil rights.
- an end to slavery.
- a federal outpost in Charleston, South Carolina, that was attacked by the Confederates in April 1861, sparking the Civil War.
- American evangelist and reformer, she was born an enslaved African but was later freed and became a speaker for abolition and women's suffrage.
- an incident in which abolitionist John Brown and 21 other men captured a federal arsenal in Harpers Ferry, Virginia, in hope of starting a slave rebellion.
- a Union victory in the Civil War that marked the bloodiest single-day battle in U.S. military history.
- American woman suffrage leader, she organized the Seneca Falls Convention with Lucretia Mott.
- a process developed by Eli Whitney in the 1790s that called for making each part of a machine exactly the same.
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- a network of people who helped thousands of enslaved people escape to the North by providing transportation and hiding places.
- an order issued by President Lincoln freeing the slaves in areas rebelling against the Union; took effect January 1, 1863.
- a speech given by Abraham Lincoln in which he praised the bravery of Union soldiers and renewed his commitment to winning the Civil War.
- American soldier, he refused Lincoln's offer to head the Union Army and agreed to lead Confederate forces. He successfully led several major battles until his defeat at Gettysburg, and he surrendered to the Union's commander General Grant at Appomattox Courthouse.
- the nation formed by the southern states when they seceded from the Union; also known as the Confederacy.
- a law that enforced segregation in the Southern states.
- American social reformer, she was active in the temperance, abolitionist, and women's suffrage movements and was co-organizer and president of the National Woman Suffrage Association.
- the period following the Civil War during which the U.S. government worked to reunite the nation and to rebuild the southern states.
- American inventor and industrialist, he invented the mechanical reaper and harvesting machine that quickly cut down wheat.
- American artist and inventor, he applied scientists' discoveries of electricity and magnetism to develop the telegraph, which soon sent messages all across the country.
- American engineer and inventor, he built the first commercially successful full-sized steamboat, the Clermont, which led to the development of commercial steamboat ferry services for goods and services.
- an incident in which abolitionist John Brown and seven other men murdered pro-slavery Kansans.
- 18th President of the United States, he received a field promotion to lieutenant general in charge of all Union forces after leading a successful battle.
- a statement written and signed by women's rights supporters at the Seneca Falls Convention; detailed their beliefs about social injustice against women.
- the first national women's rights convention at which the Declaration of Sentiments was written.
- a system developed by Samuel Slater in the mid-1800s in which whole families were hired as textile workers and factory work was divided into simple tasks.
- a law that made it a crime to help runaway slaves; allowed for the arrest of escaped slaves in areas where slavery was illegal and required their return to slaveholders.
- American abolitionist who escaped slavery and assisted other enslaved Africans to escape; she is the most famous Underground Railroad conductor and is known as the Moses of her people.
- a type of war in which an army destroys its opponent's ability to fight by targeting civilian and economic as well as military resources.
- Enslaved African who filed suit for his freedom stating that his time living in a free state made him a free man; the Supreme Court ruling known as the Dred Scott decision upheld slavery and found the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional.
58 Clues: cloth • an end to slavery. • the act of formally withdrawing from the Union. • a law that enforced segregation in the Southern states. • the rapid growth in the speed and convenience of transportation. • a political party formed in the 1850s to stop the spread of slavery in the West. • ...
Recunstruction (Samix K) 2022-06-03
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- this Amendment made slavery ilegeal throughout the United States
- Henry Davis’s alternative plan
- The process of reuniting the nation
- Its purpose was to provide relief for the poor people in the South (black and white)
- This amendment guaranteed the equal protection of the laws to citizens
- Laws that required segregation
- This act provided African Americans with the same legal rights as white Americans
- These Northerners moves to the south after the civil war
- The president During the civil war
- A group of white southerners in Tennessee created this plan - Answer
- The President after the civil war
- These people wanted to protect their Reconstruction plan from any major changes
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- The man who shot Abraham Lincoln
- The first African American to be in the U.S Senate
- They wanted the southern states to change much more than they already had before they could return to the union
- This amendment gave african american men the right to vote
- Democrats that regained control of state governments in the south
- Laws that greatly limited the freedom of African Americans
- This marked the beginning of severe downturn that soon put 2 million people out of work
19 Clues: Henry Davis’s alternative plan • Laws that required segregation • The man who shot Abraham Lincoln • The President after the civil war • The president During the civil war • The process of reuniting the nation • The first African American to be in the U.S Senate • These Northerners moves to the south after the civil war • ...
Test Review - Civil War & Reconstruction 2021-03-02
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- The principle of popular sovereignty was an important part of the __________-Nebraska Act.
- The practice of slavery was officially ended in the United States with passage of the __________ Amendment.
- One way in which Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, and Sojourner Truth are similar is that they all supported the __________ movement.
- Throughout the Civil War, an important advantage the North had over the South was that the North had greater __________ capabilities.
- After the Civil War, many owners of large plantations in the South responded to the loss of enslaved labor by creating tenant farms and __________.
- Slave owners benefited most directly from the Supreme Court decision in __________ v. Sanford?
- Implementation of the __________ Codes was an attempt by southern state governments after the Civil War to limit the rights of African Americans?
- When President __________ was inaugurated several southern states had already seceded from the Union.
- After the Civil War, the most common occupations for freedmen were sharecroppers and __________ farmers.
- After the Civil War, a significant cause of the conflict between President Andrew __________ and the Radical Republicans in Congress was disagreement over the plans for restoring Southern states to the Union.
- One major result of the __________’s victory in the Civil War was that the supremacy of the national government was upheld?
- … In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to “preserve, protect, and defend it.” … President Lincoln made this statement in an effort to urge Congress to convince __________ that he posed no threat to their way of life.
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- The common goal of the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments to the United States Constitution was to grant basic ___________ to formerly enslaved persons.
- … The whole military force of the State is at the service of a Mr. Suttle, a slaveholder from Virginia, to enable him to catch a man whom he calls his property; but not a soldier is offered to save a citizen of Massachusetts from being kidnapped! The author of this statement is expressing dissatisfaction with the __________ -slave law, a provision included in the Compromise of 1850.
- election of Abraham Lincoln as president led directly to the ___________ of several Southern states from the Union?
- President Abraham Lincoln believed that secession is unlawful and treasonous. Everything possible must be done to preserve the ___________.
- The __________ formed during Reconstruction with the purpose of keeping African-Americans from exercising rights.
- Abraham Lincoln’s 1858 warning that “a house divided against itself cannot stand” referred to sectional differences over the issue of __________.
- Poll taxes, literacy tests, and grandfather clauses were used in the South after 1890 to deny __________ rights to African Americans.
- As a result of the Missouri Compromise (1820) the ___________ of power between free and slave states was maintained.
- Missouri Compromise, Compromise of 1850, and Kansas-Nebraska Act all contributed to the rise of __________ in the United States.
- The Compromise of 1877 brought an end to Radical Reconstruction by providing for the removal of federal __________ from Southern states.
- At the start of the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln stated that the major reason for fighting the war was to uphold the Constitution by preserving the __________.
- During the late 1800s, most __________ voters in the South solidly supported the Democratic Party primarily because Democrats disliked the Reconstruction programs of the Republicans.
24 Clues: The principle of popular sovereignty was an important part of the __________-Nebraska Act. • Slave owners benefited most directly from the Supreme Court decision in __________ v. Sanford? • When President __________ was inaugurated several southern states had already seceded from the Union. • ...
Wanted Dead or Alive 2015-12-14
10 Clues: The 16th pesident • The "secret" railroad • North side of Civil War • South side of Civil War • The brightest star north • Free countries have this • The war that stopped slavery • People who worked for the white • The country north of the U.S.A. • Important document that stopped slavery
Emancipation Proclamation 2024-12-29
10 Clues: Group of soldiers • State of being free • State of being equal • Act of ending slavery • Freedom from oppression • Formal talk to an audience • Conflict between two sides • Fair treatment under the law • Opposing side to the South in the Civil War • Side that supported slavery during the Civil War
Civil War Crossword Puzzle 2021-10-13
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- General of the Union during the Civil War
- The first major land battle of the American Civil War.
- The North
- The first person to assassinate an American president.
- In the Battle of ______, the Union drove out Confederate invasion and proved that they could stand against them.
- A military strategy which called for a naval blockade in the South that would close ports and apply pressure to citizens.
- A method used by the Confederacy to coerce Britain and France into supporting them.
- The government of 11 states that removed themselves from the Union in 1860.
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- The Battle of _______ became the turning point for the war after the Union won.
- “all persons held as slaves within any State, or designated part of the State, the people whereof shall be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward and forever free.”
- The middle ground of the civil war; seperated the North and South.
- Capital of the Confederate States of America, vital source of weapons and supplies.
- The 16th president of the United States. His goal was to preserve the Union.
- People are forced to assist the military in time of national crisis.
- A war between citizens of the same country
15 Clues: The North • General of the Union during the Civil War • A war between citizens of the same country • The first major land battle of the American Civil War. • The first person to assassinate an American president. • The middle ground of the civil war; seperated the North and South. • People are forced to assist the military in time of national crisis. • ...
18 2025-02-15
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- Beatles songwriter
- LGBTQ uprising
- Film princess
- 1969 space milestone "69"
- Music & peace event
- Bombing tragedy
- Bluesy singer
- Civil rights movement
- Voting rights
- Hippie explosion
- Beatles activist
- Civil unrest
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- Godfather of Soul
- Berkeley activism
- Cold War crisis
- Urban riots
- Desegregation activists
- Feminist movement
- Protest singer
- Rock poet
- Action movie star
- Race to moon
- Campus protests
- MLK’s event
- Folk rock star
25 Clues: Rock poet • Urban riots • MLK’s event • Race to moon • Civil unrest • Film princess • Bluesy singer • Voting rights • LGBTQ uprising • Protest singer • Folk rock star • Cold War crisis • Bombing tragedy • Campus protests • Hippie explosion • Beatles activist • Godfather of Soul • Berkeley activism • Feminist movement • Action movie star • Beatles songwriter • Music & peace event • Civil rights movement • ...
Unit 2: Reconstruction 2020-06-30
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- Legal separation of races
- Right to vote cannot be denied by race
- Harsh reconstruction plan when in congress
- Union general and later president
- To formerly charge an elected official
- Grants citizenship by birth
- confederate general
- African-American who fought for rights
- Ended Reconstruction
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- first president to be impeached
- Ended slavery in the US
- Federal troops deployed to uphold AA's rights
- Men and women who were formerly enslaved
- Northerners who came to south for economic gain
- Period after the Civil War to rebuild the south
- Working someone else's land
- Organization that helped African-Americans
- Lincoln's reconstruction plan- reconciliation
- President during civil war
- white supremacist terrorist organization
- Restricted rights for African-Americans
21 Clues: confederate general • Ended Reconstruction • Ended slavery in the US • Legal separation of races • President during civil war • Working someone else's land • Grants citizenship by birth • first president to be impeached • Union general and later president • Right to vote cannot be denied by race • To formerly charge an elected official • African-American who fought for rights • ...
Reconstruction 2022-08-25
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- helped African Americans get basics
- former slave
- tax pay money to vote
- Northerner who made a profit after Civil War
- if your relative could vote, you could
- symbol of lost cause; urged south to stop fighting
- hate group created by former Confederates
- amendment that gave voting rights
- represented African Americans; wanted rights
- ended Reconstruction; troops out of south
- test have to read or write to vote
- amendment that gave citizenship
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- created segregation
- symbolized by Lee; said slavery was good
- political party of Lincoln and African- Ams
- laws that restricted African Americans
- created by Jim Crow Laws
- rebuilding the south after the Civil War
- called for quick Reconstruction; not punish South
- amendment that ended slavery
20 Clues: former slave • created segregation • tax pay money to vote • created by Jim Crow Laws • amendment that ended slavery • amendment that gave citizenship • amendment that gave voting rights • test have to read or write to vote • helped African Americans get basics • laws that restricted African Americans • if your relative could vote, you could • ...
Ch 19 L 1 & 4 The Gilded Age 2025-11-12
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- Before the Civil War, this was a primary transportation in cities
- in 1882, this type of person was not allowed to come to America
- this guy had a circus and he joined Jim Bailey in business
- a german born secretary of the interior, supported civil service reform
- elected in 1868, a republican
- Mark Twain called this age by this name.
- signed for Pension bills for Civil War Veterans that the 4 previous Presidents
- A Maine Republican that was Speaker of the House
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- first state to allow female suffrage
- the precursor to the modern department store
- William McKinley beat this guy for the Presidency
- congressional Republicans that opposed Civil Service Reform
- He lost the 1876 election
- What struck Chicago in 1871, destroying a major area of the city
- When foreigners come to our country, they are called this:
- this type of car was introduced in San Francisco
- this group of people actually had an act barring them from entering the US
- the vice president under James Garfield
18 Clues: He lost the 1876 election • elected in 1868, a republican • first state to allow female suffrage • the vice president under James Garfield • Mark Twain called this age by this name. • the precursor to the modern department store • this type of car was introduced in San Francisco • A Maine Republican that was Speaker of the House • ...
The American Civil War 2014-08-21
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- The 16th President.
- A union general who served under President Lincoln.
- A union stronghold in South Carolina.
- The southern political party that favored slavery.
- The announcement of slaves becoming free.
- The president of the Confederate States of America.
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- A speech that was given by president Abraham Lincoln after the Battle of Gettysburg.
- A location of a major Civil War battle in Maryland.
- To appease slave state concerns over a federal abolition of slavery.
- A movement to eliminate slavery and see equal treatment of all people.
- A new political party that emerged in the North in the mid-1800's
- Was the largest battle of the American Civil War.
- Was a Confederate sympathizer and professional actor.
- A state that leaves the nation under which it belongs to become there own.
- an agreement between the federal government and the southern state to keep the south from seceding.
- a general of the confederate troops during the Civil war.
16 Clues: The 16th President. • A union stronghold in South Carolina. • The announcement of slaves becoming free. • Was the largest battle of the American Civil War. • The southern political party that favored slavery. • A location of a major Civil War battle in Maryland. • A union general who served under President Lincoln. • The president of the Confederate States of America. • ...
English Civil War and Glorious Revolution 2021-10-06
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- The nearly bloodless overthrow of Catholic James II by William and Mary in 1688
- Corulers of England after James II flees to France
- Supporters of Charles I during the Civil War
- Official Protestant church of the state
- A republic
- Catholic brother of Charles II; His daughter Mary dethroned him
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- King of England who is executed during the English Civil War
- A document that secured Parliament's right to make laws and levy taxes among other things
- This act granted Puritans, but not Catholics, the right to free public worship.
- Supporters of the Parliamentary forces during the Civil War
- Leader of parliamentary forces against king Charles I; Lord Protector of the Commonwealth
- the lawmaking body in England
- Son of Charles I; sympathetic to Catholicism
- Conflict between Cavaliers/Royalists and Parliamentary forces (1642–1651)
- Led by General Oliver Cromwell; made up primarily of extreme Puritans RumpParliament What is left in Parliament after Cromwell eliminates his opponents
- Becomes king of England after Elizabeth I and is the father of Charles I
16 Clues: A republic • the lawmaking body in England • Official Protestant church of the state • Son of Charles I; sympathetic to Catholicism • Supporters of Charles I during the Civil War • Corulers of England after James II flees to France • Supporters of the Parliamentary forces during the Civil War • King of England who is executed during the English Civil War • ...
Civil War 2024-05-22
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- The number of union generals in the civil war
- The state where the battle of Vicksburg took place
- The topic the north was trying to abolish
- The number of confederate generals in the war.
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- The battle that begun the civil war in North Carolina
- Lincolns document that called all past slaves free.
- Was the first major battle of the civil war
- This is what the south was going to do to the union
- The state where the Gettysburg battle took place
- What the north wanted to do to slavery
10 Clues: What the north wanted to do to slavery • The topic the north was trying to abolish • Was the first major battle of the civil war • The number of union generals in the civil war • The number of confederate generals in the war. • The state where the Gettysburg battle took place • The state where the battle of Vicksburg took place • ...
Chapter 13 2025-01-21
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- name kept by the northern states during the Civil War
- name given to the southern states during the Civil War
- "Workshop of the Confederacy" was A nickname for the city of ____
- (2 words) slaveholding states that were next to free states and did not secede
- This person was the main person who drafted a constitution for the new Confederacy.
- The flag that represented the union prior to the secession of Southern states/prior to the Civil War nation split. The Stars and ___
- address speech given by the President where he urged the north to win the Civil War, and to preserve the Union
- to write a proposal for a law or proclamation
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- use of military forces to isolate enemy territory
- The 16th US President, elected in 1860. Republican. Favored the abolition of slavery.
- the document issued by the President that stated all slaved would be free. (_____ Proclamation)
- Adopted in 1861, the first national flag of the Confederacy was referred to as the Stars and ___
- a place where weapons are made or stored
- a law requiring civilians to join the military
14 Clues: a place where weapons are made or stored • to write a proposal for a law or proclamation • a law requiring civilians to join the military • use of military forces to isolate enemy territory • name kept by the northern states during the Civil War • name given to the southern states during the Civil War • ...
Civil War Crossword Puzzle 2024-01-09
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- Lincoln, the President during the Civil War; he issued a proclamation to free slaves
- a place where military weapons are stored
- Proclamation, a presidential order issued by Lincoln that freed all slaves
- a city in Pennsylvania that was the site of the turning point of the Civil War
- S Grant, Union general during the Civil War
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- a person in favor of ending slavery
- the site of two majors battles in the Civil War - including the first major battle noted
- a life lost during battle
- States, these were slave states that did not leave the Union and supported the cause of the Confederates
- Johnson, declared the conflict to have ended on May 9 1865
10 Clues: a life lost during battle • a person in favor of ending slavery • a place where military weapons are stored • S Grant, Union general during the Civil War • Johnson, declared the conflict to have ended on May 9 1865 • Proclamation, a presidential order issued by Lincoln that freed all slaves • ...
Civil War 2022-02-09
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- This fort was the location of the first battle in the civil war. It took place in Charleston, SC
- This was the name of the Union's plan to blockade the South
- This battle was a turning point in the civil war
- This word means to leave and make your own country. The south did this.
- At the battle of Bull Run, civilians were eating this
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- Being more loyal to your region than your country
- The name of the confederate submarine that sunk a ship
- This fort was the place where the 54th Regiment of African American Union Soldiers were heros
- President during the civil war
- Who won the Civil War?
10 Clues: Who won the Civil War? • President during the civil war • This battle was a turning point in the civil war • Being more loyal to your region than your country • At the battle of Bull Run, civilians were eating this • The name of the confederate submarine that sunk a ship • This was the name of the Union's plan to blockade the South • ...
end of edo 2017-03-24
Civil War 2023-05-19
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- The Battle of Gettysburg was the _______ Battle in the Civil War.
- _____ Soldiers fought on both sides of the war.
- About ______ bodies were left in Gettysburg.
- _________ lost the most soldiers at the Battle of Gettysburg.
- The _____ contractors cleaned up the Civil War Battlefields.
- The Battle of Gettysburg lasted _____ whole days.
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- The last dead ______ was found in The Battle of Gettysburg field in 1996.
- 5,000 _______ were lost during the Battle Of Gettysburg.
- _______ thought that The Battle of Gettysburg was most important.
- About three ______ people died in the Civil War.
10 Clues: About ______ bodies were left in Gettysburg. • _____ Soldiers fought on both sides of the war. • About three ______ people died in the Civil War. • The Battle of Gettysburg lasted _____ whole days. • 5,000 _______ were lost during the Battle Of Gettysburg. • The _____ contractors cleaned up the Civil War Battlefields. • ...
Civil War 2023-05-19
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- The Battle of Gettysburg was the _______ Battle in the Civil War.
- _____ Soldiers fought on both sides of the war.
- About ______ bodies were left in Gettysburg.
- _________ lost the most soldiers at the Battle of Gettysburg.
- The _____ contractors cleaned up the Civil War Battlefields.
- The Battle of Gettysburg lasted _____ whole days.
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- The last dead ______ was found in The Battle of Gettysburg field in 1996.
- 5,000 _______ were lost during the Battle Of Gettysburg.
- _______ thought that The Battle of Gettysburg was most important.
- About three ______ people died in the Civil War.
10 Clues: About ______ bodies were left in Gettysburg. • _____ Soldiers fought on both sides of the war. • About three ______ people died in the Civil War. • The Battle of Gettysburg lasted _____ whole days. • 5,000 _______ were lost during the Battle Of Gettysburg. • The _____ contractors cleaned up the Civil War Battlefields. • ...
Battle of Gettysburg Facts 2023-05-19
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- The Battle of Gettysburg was the _______ Battle in the Civil War.
- _____ Soldiers fought on both sides of the war.
- About ______ bodies were left in Gettysburg.
- _________ lost the most soldiers at the Battle of Gettysburg.
- The _____ contractors cleaned up the Civil War Battlefields.
- The Battle of Gettysburg lasted _____ whole days.
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- The last dead ______ was found in The Battle of Gettysburg field in 1996.
- 5,000 _______ were lost during the Battle Of Gettysburg.
- _______ thought that The Battle of Gettysburg was most important.
- About three ______ people died in the Civil War.
10 Clues: About ______ bodies were left in Gettysburg. • _____ Soldiers fought on both sides of the war. • About three ______ people died in the Civil War. • The Battle of Gettysburg lasted _____ whole days. • 5,000 _______ were lost during the Battle Of Gettysburg. • The _____ contractors cleaned up the Civil War Battlefields. • ...
Micah's Civil War Crossword Project 2023-02-22
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- the battle fought in the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
- the place where the Confederate States of America officially surrendered to the Union
- the other name for Battle of Bull Run
- a nickname used to describe a southerner during the Civil war
- a formerly enslaved person that has been released
- the strategy developed by the Union to wrap around the Confederacy
- a ship that successfully passes illegally through a blockade
- the country organized by the south to fight against the Union
- the 16th president of 1861 that passed the emancipation proclamation
- a famous speech by Abraham Lincoln addressing the Battle of Gettysburg, "four score and 7 years ago"
- the act of enslaving individuals to work against their will with restricted freedom and exaughsting labor
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- general William Tecumseh Sherman's march through georgia and back up through South Carolina with a goal to destroy the Confederate States of America
- blocking an enimies entraces or exits as an act of war
- the battle fought in the town of Eutaw Springs, South Carolina
- the side that won the Battle Of Fort Sumter
- a large farmhouse with land that enslaved people farmed, ran by a slave owner
- the fort that the battle with no casualties was fought at
- the main ammunition used during the civil war, could kill a person in an instant
- a nickname used to describe a northerner during the civil war
- to withdraw or leave from a political or religious organization
20 Clues: the other name for Battle of Bull Run • the side that won the Battle Of Fort Sumter • a formerly enslaved person that has been released • blocking an enimies entraces or exits as an act of war • the battle fought in the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania • the fort that the battle with no casualties was fought at • ...
Jess Farrar/S4/people & places 2019-05-02
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- A civil rights activist, leader, sociologist, and one of the founders of the NAACP. He preached that social change was only achievable via action and protest.(2 words)
- The president of the United States during the Watergate scandal. He resigned before his impeachment.(2 words)
- A civil rights activist and journalist who launched an anti-lynching campaign. She was also one of the founders of the NAACP.(3 words)
- A civil rights activist who focused on the labor conditions of Mexican immigrant workers.(2 words)
- A civil rights activist who focused specifically on women's suffrage. She was one of the main faces of the movement, but unfortunately promoted white supremacy to further her agenda.(3 words)
- President during the Great Depression and most of World War II. He was responsible for the New Deal legislation and served four terms.(3 words)
- A country divided by civil war. One side was supported by the USSR, the other by the US. The US sent troops to help fight but withdrew in 1973. The communist side won and the two sides were united under communism.
- The US helped them overthrow the Spanish in 1898. It later became communist and allied itself with the USSR, allowing them to set up a nuclear base on it's territory.
- Annexed into the United States in 1898 after the destabilization and eventual overthrowing of its government. Attacked during WWII, which prompted the US to join the war.
- A country who's nationalist government was overthrown and replaced by a communist government. The country challenged the US's containment policy because we couldn't defeat something so large. We didn't recognize the new government and vetoed its admission into the United Nations.
- A group of American pilots stationed in the Pacific during World War II. They were the first Americans to fight against the Japanese.(2 words)
- A civil rights activist in the 1950s and 60s, she rose to fame when she was arrested for refusing to give up her seat for a white man on the bus. (2 words)
- A country divided by civil war. One side was supported by the USSR, the other supported by the US. The resulting war did not reunite the country, and it is divided at the 38th parallel.
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- An area rich in petroleum and other natural resources. The governments are generally unstable and the area's political climate is volatile. The US gets most of its oil from here.(2 words)
- The capital of Germany which was divided into four occupation zones after WWII. These four occupation zones eventually dwindled to two that were divided by a wall.
- A political organization founded in 1966 that focused on black power and carried weapons in self defense from police brutality.(2 words)
- An American general who commanded the Pacific theater during World War II.(2 words)
- Formed in 1922, and part of the Allied powers during WWII. Created an iron curtain through Europe when it turned the smaller countries surrounding it into satellites. The only other superpower in the world after WWII.(2 words)
- One of the Axis powers in WWII, and one of the Central Powers in WWI. The site of the Holocaust.
- One of the Axis powers during WWII. They attacked and took over Manchuria, an area of China. The US became involved in WWII when they attacked us at Pearl Harbor.
20 Clues: An American general who commanded the Pacific theater during World War II.(2 words) • One of the Axis powers in WWII, and one of the Central Powers in WWI. The site of the Holocaust. • A civil rights activist who focused on the labor conditions of Mexican immigrant workers.(2 words) • ...
Test Review - Civil War & Reconstruction 2021-03-02
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- The principle of popular sovereignty was an important part of the __________-Nebraska Act.
- The practice of slavery was officially ended in the United States with passage of the __________ Amendment.
- One way in which Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, and Sojourner Truth are similar is that they all supported the __________ movement.
- Throughout the Civil War, an important advantage the North had over the South was that the North had greater __________ capabilities.
- After the Civil War, many owners of large plantations in the South responded to the loss of enslaved labor by creating tenant farms and __________.
- Slave owners benefited most directly from the Supreme Court decision in __________ v. Sanford?
- Implementation of the __________ Codes was an attempt by southern state governments after the Civil War to limit the rights of African Americans?
- When President __________ was inaugurated several southern states had already seceded from the Union.
- After the Civil War, the most common occupations for freedmen were sharecroppers and __________ farmers.
- After the Civil War, a significant cause of the conflict between President Andrew __________ and the Radical Republicans in Congress was disagreement over the plans for restoring Southern states to the Union.
- One major result of the __________’s victory in the Civil War was that the supremacy of the national government was upheld?
- … In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to “preserve, protect, and defend it.” … President Lincoln made this statement in an effort to urge Congress to convince __________ that he posed no threat to their way of life.
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- The common goal of the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments to the United States Constitution was to grant basic ___________ to formerly enslaved persons.
- … The whole military force of the State is at the service of a Mr. Suttle, a slaveholder from Virginia, to enable him to catch a man whom he calls his property; but not a soldier is offered to save a citizen of Massachusetts from being kidnapped! The author of this statement is expressing dissatisfaction with the __________ -slave law, a provision included in the Compromise of 1850.
- election of Abraham Lincoln as president led directly to the ___________ of several Southern states from the Union?
- President Abraham Lincoln believed that secession is unlawful and treasonous. Everything possible must be done to preserve the ___________.
- The __________ formed during Reconstruction with the purpose of keeping African-Americans from exercising rights.
- Abraham Lincoln’s 1858 warning that “a house divided against itself cannot stand” referred to sectional differences over the issue of __________.
- Poll taxes, literacy tests, and grandfather clauses were used in the South after 1890 to deny __________ rights to African Americans.
- As a result of the Missouri Compromise (1820) the ___________ of power between free and slave states was maintained.
- Missouri Compromise, Compromise of 1850, and Kansas-Nebraska Act all contributed to the rise of __________ in the United States.
- The Compromise of 1877 brought an end to Radical Reconstruction by providing for the removal of federal __________ from Southern states.
- At the start of the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln stated that the major reason for fighting the war was to uphold the Constitution by preserving the __________.
- During the late 1800s, most __________ voters in the South solidly supported the Democratic Party primarily because Democrats disliked the Reconstruction programs of the Republicans.
24 Clues: The principle of popular sovereignty was an important part of the __________-Nebraska Act. • Slave owners benefited most directly from the Supreme Court decision in __________ v. Sanford? • When President __________ was inaugurated several southern states had already seceded from the Union. • ...
civil war 2023-01-27
10 Clues: won the civil war • battle the union won • battle the south won • President during war • Thomas Jackson's nickname • the last state to succeed • main cause of the civil war • had the most electoral vote • what the south claimed to be • what the south did after the election of 1860
The Nation Divides and Civil War Begins 2020-02-13
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- Was the bloodiest single-day battle of the Civil War
- 11 states that seceded from the Union
- Was the first major battle of the Civil war and the Cofederates’ victory
- Civil War battle in Tennessee in which the Union army gained greater control over the Mississippi river valley
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- Henry Clay's proposed agreement that allowed California to enter the Union as a free state
- Long-term effect of the debate over slavery
- Made it a crime to help runaway slaves and allowed officials to arrest those slaves in free states
- A series of debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas during 1858 campaign
- Where the first battle of the Civil War happened
- Enslaved man who waited 11 years for the Supreme Court's hearing
- Series of clashes that forced the Union Army to retreat from near Richmond
11 Clues: 11 states that seceded from the Union • Long-term effect of the debate over slavery • Where the first battle of the Civil War happened • Was the bloodiest single-day battle of the Civil War • Enslaved man who waited 11 years for the Supreme Court's hearing • Series of clashes that forced the Union Army to retreat from near Richmond • ...
4th Grade Review 2021-05-06
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- found in Sutter's Creek and caused a rush of people to go mining for it
- first state to secede or leave the Union
- war fought to free the slaves
- _______ Act of 1862 allowed you to get 160 acres of land
- were considered property
- _____ and Indian War
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- _______ Pruchase doubled the size of out country at the time
- ______ of 1763 British returned the land to Indians
- we fought ________ during the Mexican-American War
- place of the first battle of the Civil War
- person against slavery; wanted to get rid of slavery
- the Declaration of _________ was signed on July 4, 1776 and said we would no longer be under British rule
- 16th President; President during the Civil War
- fought to gain the US independence from Britain
14 Clues: _____ and Indian War • were considered property • war fought to free the slaves • first state to secede or leave the Union • place of the first battle of the Civil War • 16th President; President during the Civil War • fought to gain the US independence from Britain • we fought ________ during the Mexican-American War • ______ of 1763 British returned the land to Indians • ...
Civics Final Exam Crossword #2 2024-05-01
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- Name of the national anthem
- One of our national holidays
- War fought in the U.S. between the north and the south
- One of the U.S. states that border Canada
- President during the Great Depression and WWII
- Movement to end racial discrimination in the U.S.
- The longest river in the U.S.
- Where the statue of liberty is located
- This was the main concern of the U.S. during the Cold War
- Womens suffrage activist
- President who led the U.S. during the Civil War
- Celebrated on July 4th
- President during WWI
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- U.S. president who was a general during WWII (last name only)
- This freed enslaved persons in the United States
- Ocean on the east coast
- One of the U.S. territories
- One of the Native American tribes
- The U.S. capital
- Ocean on the west coast
- This war was fought by the United States in the 1800s
- One of the U.S. states that border Mexico
- Major Civil Rights Movement activist
- The American flag has 50 stars to represent these
- The American flag has 13 stripes to represent these
25 Clues: The U.S. capital • President during WWI • Celebrated on July 4th • Ocean on the east coast • Ocean on the west coast • Womens suffrage activist • Name of the national anthem • One of the U.S. territories • One of our national holidays • The longest river in the U.S. • One of the Native American tribes • Major Civil Rights Movement activist • Where the statue of liberty is located • ...
Unit 5 Civil War Crossword Puzzle 2024-12-02
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- First battle of the Civil War but there was no casualties
- Became the leading symbol for the "Lost Cause" movement
- Most famous nurse
- "Unconditional Surrender" Grant
- Iron warships
- The Place Lincoln was assassinated
- First real battle of the war
- Against slavery and Ulysses S. Grant was the General in chief
- The political party that Lincoln ran for
- Peace Democracts
- 16th President
- Former enslaved African American who became a prominent abolishonist
- supports slavery but apart of the Union
- Laws passed by Congress that were intended to free slaves that were still enslaved by Confederates
- Bloodiest battle
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- Abolished after the Civil War
- First state to secede from the Union
- Assasinated Lincoln
- Allowed far transportation of men or materials quickly
- What 11 southern states did because Lincoln became president
- Created a reorganized government of Virginia to be apart of the Union
- Sufficate the South by blocking materials and external markets
- Lincoln often used it to communicate directly with field commanders
- Supports slavery and Robert E. Lee led for most of the war
24 Clues: Iron warships • 16th President • Peace Democracts • Bloodiest battle • Most famous nurse • Assasinated Lincoln • First real battle of the war • Abolished after the Civil War • "Unconditional Surrender" Grant • The Place Lincoln was assassinated • First state to secede from the Union • supports slavery but apart of the Union • The political party that Lincoln ran for • ...
APUSH Vocabulary review 2024-12-10
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- The trail of tears.
- Harriet Tubman
- Civil rights activist fighting for freedom and equality for all.
- A supporter of federal government
- Prominent opposing Shawnee chief during 1812 war.
- First US formed conflict fought on foreign soil.
- First permanent English settlement in North America
- Taking US sailors prisoners
- A law passed to address maintaining the balance of power between fee and slave states.
- Massacre of American rebels 1836
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- Laws passed by the Federalist that restricted rights of immigrants and limited free speech/press.
- God ordained North America expansion
- The acquisition of land by the US from France in 1803.
- First President of the United States
- Foreign policy opposing European colonization in the Western Hemisphere
- A land deal between the US and Mexico
- State of being in bondage
- Break away from
- Seventh President of the US and against the national bank
- First US secretary of the treasury from 1789-1795
- A war between citizens of the same country
21 Clues: Harriet Tubman • Break away from • The trail of tears. • State of being in bondage • Taking US sailors prisoners • Massacre of American rebels 1836 • A supporter of federal government • God ordained North America expansion • First President of the United States • A land deal between the US and Mexico • A war between citizens of the same country • ...
Ch 19 L 1 & 4 The Gilded Age 2025-11-12
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- He lost the 1876 election
- in 1882, this type of person was not allowed to come to America
- the precursor to the modern department store
- elected in 1868, a republican
- the vice president under James Garfield
- Before the Civil War, this was a primary transportation in cities
- this group of people actually had an act barring them from entering the US
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- A Maine Republican that was Speaker of the House
- this guy had a circus and he joined Jim Bailey in business
- congressional Republicans that opposed Civil Service Reform
- signed for Pension bills for Civil War Veterans that the 4 previous Presidents
- Mark Twain called this age by this name.
- What struck Chicago in 1871, destroying a major area of the city
- When foreigners come to our country, they are called this:
- William McKinley beat this guy for the Presidency
- first state to allow female suffrage
- this type of car was introduced in San Francisco
- a german born secretary of the interior, supported civil service reform
18 Clues: He lost the 1876 election • elected in 1868, a republican • first state to allow female suffrage • the vice president under James Garfield • Mark Twain called this age by this name. • the precursor to the modern department store • A Maine Republican that was Speaker of the House • this type of car was introduced in San Francisco • ...
Ch. 10-16 Crossword - [Calder Laidlaw] 2014-05-21
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- Northern money in Civil War
- one route of The Great Migration" West
- The Fifth President of the United States of America
- Founder of Sisters of Charity
- Eli Whitney invention
- Animal on Republic of California flag
- "A Christmas Carol" author
- Author of "The Scarlet Letter"
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- San Francisco pants that are still popular
- Leader of the Seminoles in the 1830's
- Rocky Mountain American adventurer fur traders
- Soldiers' bag for personal items
- First national party convention in Baltimore 1832
- Mail delivered by horse 1860
- Confederacy President
- Waterway connected the Hudson River to Buffalo, NY
- Small Pennsylvania city, Big Civil War Battle
- First "dark horse" president
- 1845 this American past-time was invented
- The Lone Star Republic
20 Clues: Confederacy President • Eli Whitney invention • The Lone Star Republic • "A Christmas Carol" author • Northern money in Civil War • Mail delivered by horse 1860 • First "dark horse" president • Founder of Sisters of Charity • Author of "The Scarlet Letter" • Soldiers' bag for personal items • Leader of the Seminoles in the 1830's • Animal on Republic of California flag • ...
Reconstruction 2022-08-25
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- laws that restricted African Americans
- Northerner who made a profit after Civil War
- ended Reconstruction; troops out of south
- represented African Americans; wanted rights
- amendment that gave voting rights
- amendment that gave citizenship
- rebuilding the south after the Civil War
- pay money to vote
- former slave
- hate group created by former Confederates
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- symbolized by Lee; said slavery was good
- political party of Lincoln and African- Ams
- if your relative could vote, you could
- symbol of lost cause; urged south to stop fighting
- created segregation
- helped African Americans get basics
- created by Jim Crow Laws
- amendment that ended slavery
- test have to read or write to vote
- called for quick Reconstruction; not punish South
20 Clues: former slave • pay money to vote • created segregation • created by Jim Crow Laws • amendment that ended slavery • amendment that gave citizenship • amendment that gave voting rights • test have to read or write to vote • helped African Americans get basics • laws that restricted African Americans • if your relative could vote, you could • symbolized by Lee; said slavery was good • ...
Civil War Vocab 2024-02-11
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- A person or thing that prevents incompatible or antagonistic people or things from coming into contact with or harming each other.
- A war fought between citizens of the same country.
- The formal admission of someone to office.
- A republic formed in February 1861 and composed of the Southern states that seceded from the United States in an attempt to preserve slavery and states' rights.
- A fort in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, where the first shots of the American Civil War were fired on April 12, 1861.
- The term used to refer to the Northern states during the American Civil War.
- Forts controlled by the government of the United States.
- To withdraw formally from membership in a group or organization, especially a political union, alliance, or federation.
- A colloquial term used to refer to people from the Northern United States.
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- A strategy used by the Confederacy to withhold cotton exports in an attempt to gain support from European powers.
- The act of using ships to break through a naval blockade.
- A term used to refer to the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole tribes, who were considered more assimilated into Euro-American culture.
- The term used to refer to the Southern states that seceded from the United States during the American Civil War.
- A set of principles or goals declared by a political party or candidate.
- The most important city or town of a country or region, usually where the government is located.
- Another term used to refer to the Northern states during the American Civil War.
- A strategy proposed by General Winfield Scott for defeating the Confederacy by blockading Southern ports and controlling the Mississippi River.
17 Clues: The formal admission of someone to office. • A war fought between citizens of the same country. • Forts controlled by the government of the United States. • The act of using ships to break through a naval blockade. • A set of principles or goals declared by a political party or candidate. • ...
Reconstruction 2022-08-25
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- symbolized by Lee; said slavery was good
- ended Reconstruction; troops out of south
- former slave
- helped African Americans get basics
- political party of Lincoln and African- Ams
- laws that restricted African Americans
- created by Jim Crow Laws
- amendment that gave citizenship
- called for quick Reconstruction; not punish South
- amendment that gave voting rights
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- if your relative could vote, you could
- created segregation
- symbol of lost cause; urged south to stop fighting
- amendment that ended slavery
- rebuilding the south after the Civil War
- Northerner who made a profit after Civil War
- represented African Americans; wanted rights
- pay money to vote
- test have to read or write to vote
- hate group created by former Confederates
20 Clues: former slave • pay money to vote • created segregation • created by Jim Crow Laws • amendment that ended slavery • amendment that gave citizenship • amendment that gave voting rights • test have to read or write to vote • helped African Americans get basics • if your relative could vote, you could • laws that restricted African Americans • rebuilding the south after the Civil War • ...
Civil War people Ansley Rodriguez 2023-03-29
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- He was commissioned as a second lieutenant to the 2nd U.S cavalry unit
- Sam Houston appointed him comptroller
- served under general Zachary Taylor
- Tubman served as a spy and an armed scout
- He operated the only cannons in the Sam Houston army
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- served as president during the civil war
- He was captured with Jefferson Davis at the end of the civil war
- Secretary of war under president Franklin Pierce
- He recaptured Galveston from union forces
- commanded the union army at the start of the civil war
10 Clues: served under general Zachary Taylor • Sam Houston appointed him comptroller • served as president during the civil war • He recaptured Galveston from union forces • Tubman served as a spy and an armed scout • Secretary of war under president Franklin Pierce • He operated the only cannons in the Sam Houston army • commanded the union army at the start of the civil war • ...
Ch 19 L 1 & 4 The Gilded Age 2025-11-12
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- a german born secretary of the interior, supported civil service reform
- this guy had a circus and he joined Jim Bailey in business
- elected in 1868, a republican
- congressional Republicans that opposed Civil Service Reform
- the precursor to the modern department store
- the vice president under James Garfield
- He lost the 1876 election
- What struck Chicago in 1871, destroying a major area of the city
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- first state to allow female suffrage
- When foreigners come to our country, they are called this:
- William McKinley beat this guy for the Presidency
- this group of people actually had an act barring them from entering the US
- signed for Pension bills for Civil War Veterans that the 4 previous Presidents
- Before the Civil War, this was a primary transportation in cities
- this type of car was introduced in San Francisco
- in 1882, this type of person was not allowed to come to America
- A Maine Republican that was Speaker of the House
- Mark Twain called this age by this name.
18 Clues: He lost the 1876 election • elected in 1868, a republican • first state to allow female suffrage • the vice president under James Garfield • Mark Twain called this age by this name. • the precursor to the modern department store • this type of car was introduced in San Francisco • A Maine Republican that was Speaker of the House • ...
Military Leaders 2025-09-24
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- the Great, Macedonian king who created one of the largest empires in ancient history
- Rommel, German Field Marshal known as the “Desert Fox” during WWII
- Ieyasu, Founder of the Tokugawa shogunate in Japan
- Caesar, Roman general and dictator known for expanding the Roman Republic
- Washington, First President of the United States and Revolutionary War general
- of Arc, French heroine who led troops during the Hundred Years’ War
- ibn al-Walid, Arab general known for his role in early Islamic conquests
- S. Grant, Union general during the American Civil War and 18th US president
- W. Nimitz, US Navy admiral in charge of Pacific naval forces in WWII
- Barca, Carthaginian general famous for crossing the Alps with elephants
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- Muslim military leader who recaptured Jerusalem during the Crusades
- S. Patton, US general famous for his leadership in the European theater of WWII
- Tecumseh Sherman, Union general known for his “March to the Sea” during the Civil War
- E. Lee, Confederate general during the American Civil War
- Bonaparte, French emperor and military genius who rose during the French Revolution
- Khan, Founder and leader of the Mongol Empire, known for vast conquests
- MacArthur, US general who played a prominent role in the Pacific theater during WWII
- D. Eisenhower, US general and Supreme Allied Commander in WWII, later US president
- Montgomery, British general who led Allied forces in North Africa and Europe during WWII
- the Hun, Leader of the Huns who invaded the Roman Empire
20 Clues: Ieyasu, Founder of the Tokugawa shogunate in Japan • the Hun, Leader of the Huns who invaded the Roman Empire • E. Lee, Confederate general during the American Civil War • Rommel, German Field Marshal known as the “Desert Fox” during WWII • Muslim military leader who recaptured Jerusalem during the Crusades • ...
Reconstruction Crossword 2019-02-14
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- President after Lincoln, nicknamed the "Veto President"
- Act that gave former Confederates the right to vote again
- Type of districts organized by Congress in the South in 1867
- One who rented a plot of land for farming and often paid for it by giving owners a portion of what they raised
- Term for a white southerner who collaborated with the North during the Civil War, usually for profit
- The first southern state to rejoin the Union after the Civil War
- Northerner who moved to the South after the Civil War to make money off of the rebuilding
- Emancipation
- A secret society created to drive African Americans out of political life as voters and officeholders (abbr.)
- Term for African Americans leaving the South after segregation
- Acts designed to combat violence against African Americans
- Gave all male citizens the right to vote regardless of race
- Another term for the United States
- Laws that segregated the South, named for a black character in an 1800s entertainment act
- President who delivered the Emancipation Proclamation
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- By the 1880s, only about half of all black children in the South went here
- Abolished slavery in the United States
- Granted citizenship to anyone born in the United States and guaranteed all citizens equal protection under the law
- Increased dramatically to help pay for reconstruction of southern states
- Migrants who left the South for Kansas in 1879
- To charge an office holder with misconduct
- Era following the Civil War (1865-1877)
- In Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court ruled that segregation was Constitutional as long as things were separate but also _____
- President who ended Reconstruction, leading many southern states to reverse some equality laws
- Elected president in 1868 thanks to about 500,000 black votes
- Military district with Alabama and Georgia
- Laws passed by state governments to limit the freedoms and rights of black people
- The last southern state to rejoin the Union after the Civil War
- Presidential candidate who won more popular votes and more electoral votes than his opponent but lost the presidency
- Defined by Frederick Douglass as "free from the individual master but a slave to society"
- The ____ of Office Act
- Assassinated President Lincoln
32 Clues: Emancipation • The ____ of Office Act • Assassinated President Lincoln • Another term for the United States • Abolished slavery in the United States • Era following the Civil War (1865-1877) • To charge an office holder with misconduct • Military district with Alabama and Georgia • Migrants who left the South for Kansas in 1879 • ...
Reconstruction 2025-08-24
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- Laws in the South that enforced segregation and discrimination
- Constitutional amendment that gave Black men the right to vote
- Areas of the South controlled by the U.S. Army during Reconstruction
- President who planned for lenient Reconstruction but was assassinated in 1865
- Deal that ended Reconstruction by removing federal troops from the South
- Federal laws created to stop KKK violence and protect voting rights
- Members of Congress who wanted strict Reconstruction and full rights for freedpeople
- Money owed to others, often trapping sharecroppers in poverty
- The Southern states that seceded from the Union during the Civil War
- Location in Virginia where General Lee surrendered to General Grant in 1865
- Farming system where workers gave a share of crops to landowners in exchange for using land
- Government agency created to help former slaves with food, schools, and legal aid
- Vice president who became president after Lincoln and clashed with Congress over Reconstruction
- Formerly enslaved African Americans freed after the Civil War
- The right of citizens to participate in elections
- Constitutional amendment that granted citizenship and equal protection under the law
- Period after the Civil War when the U.S. tried to rebuild the South and reunite the nation
- Constitutional amendment that abolished slavery in the United States
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- Belief that white people are superior and should control society
- Promise to give land and tools to freedpeople that was later taken away
- Religious centers that also served as community and political meeting places for freedpeople
- The act of leaving or breaking away from the United States
- Laws passed in the South to restrict the freedom of African Americans after the Civil War ReconstructionActs Laws dividing the South into military districts to enforce new rights and laws
- Legal requirement that the government must respect all rights owed to a person
- Secret group that used violence to keep white control and stop Black progress
- Principle that laws must apply the same to all people
- Rights guaranteeing personal freedoms and equality under the law
- The Northern states that fought to preserve the United States in the Civil War
- Leader of the Radical Republicans in Congress
- Separation of people by race in schools, housing, or public places
- Legal membership in a country with rights and responsibilities
31 Clues: Leader of the Radical Republicans in Congress • The right of citizens to participate in elections • Principle that laws must apply the same to all people • The act of leaving or breaking away from the United States • Money owed to others, often trapping sharecroppers in poverty • Formerly enslaved African Americans freed after the Civil War • ...
Recunstruction (Samix K) 2022-06-03
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- this Amendment made slavery ilegeal throughout the United States
- Henry Davis’s alternative plan
- The process of reuniting the nation
- Its purpose was to provide relief for the poor people in the South (black and white)
- This amendment guaranteed the equal protection of the laws to citizens
- Laws that required segregation
- This act provided African Americans with the same legal rights as white Americans
- These Northerners moves to the south after the civil war
- The president During the civil war
- A group of white southerners in Tennessee created this plan - Answer
- The President after the civil war
- These people wanted to protect their Reconstruction plan from any major changes
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- The man who shot Abraham Lincoln
- The first African American to be in the U.S Senate
- They wanted the southern states to change much more than they already had before they could return to the union
- This amendment gave african american men the right to vote
- Democrats that regained control of state governments in the south
- Laws that greatly limited the freedom of African Americans
- This marked the beginning of severe downturn that soon put 2 million people out of work
19 Clues: Henry Davis’s alternative plan • Laws that required segregation • The man who shot Abraham Lincoln • The President after the civil war • The president During the civil war • The process of reuniting the nation • The first African American to be in the U.S Senate • These Northerners moves to the south after the civil war • ...
The Triumph of Parliament in England 2025-10-06
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- System of government ruled by a king or queen.
- Legislative body of the U.K., often clashing with the monarch.
- Dynasty that ruled England from 1485 to 1603.
- Scottish king who succeeded Elizabeth I, beginning the Stuart dynasty.
- Group of English Protestants who sought to "purify" the Church of England.
- Mid-17th century conflict between Royalists and Parliamentarians.
- Parliament that sat from 1640 to 1660, refusing to be dissolved by the King.
- Financial levies that were a major source of conflict between Charles I and Parliament.
- King whose conflicts with Parliament led to the English Civil War and his being tried for treason.
- Term for the Parliamentarian forces, often wore close-cropped hair.
- The fate of King Charles I in 1649.
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- Period after the execution of Charles I when England was a republic (1649–1660).
- Led the Parliamentarian victory and ruled the Commonwealth.
- Primary country involved in the Civil War.
- Royalist supporters of Charles I during the English Civil War.
- Last Tudor monarch; 'Virgin Queen.'
- 1641 law requiring Parliament to be summoned at least every three years.
- Title held by Oliver Cromwell during the Commonwealth.
- Denomination often viewed with suspicion by Protestant monarchs and Parliament.
19 Clues: Last Tudor monarch; 'Virgin Queen.' • The fate of King Charles I in 1649. • Primary country involved in the Civil War. • Dynasty that ruled England from 1485 to 1603. • System of government ruled by a king or queen. • Title held by Oliver Cromwell during the Commonwealth. • Led the Parliamentarian victory and ruled the Commonwealth. • ...
8th Grade Louisiana History Midterm 2020-12-07
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- buying and selling goods
- the act of officially ending something
- an agency created to help millions of former black slaves and poor whites in the South in the aftermath of the Civil War
- Young, marriageable girls sent from France to Louisiana in 1728, each with a small trunk filled with clothing and goods needed to establish a household
- the quantity of a good and cannot be changed
- an 1820 agreement that brought Missouri into the union as a slave state and Maine as a free state
- this allowed the Union army to confiscate the property of those who continued to support the Confederacy during the Civil War
- a penal labor practiced in the Southern United States where prisoners provided labor to private parties for an inexpensive price
- a system of rules created by southern legislators that restricted the freedom of African Americans and required separate-but-equal public facilities
- the period of time when the federal government withdrew its last troops from the south and attempted to rebuild the nation in the aftermath of secession and the Civil War
- questioning people to obtain information or opinion
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- a belief that the government could and should be used to help address social problems like poverty, illiteracy, and improving the conditions of all workers
- anyone born in Louisiana who descendants were from another place
- the name given to former slaves
- the rights of individual states should prevail over the right of the federal government
- "...that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."
- a system of rules passed in many southern states after the Civil War that were designed to regulate the labor, movements, and behavior of former slaves and laid out rules for their masters
- something that has been done and cannot be changed
- Northerners who came south during reconstruction and were suspected of taking advantage of post war conditions to gain political power
- French Canadians who came to Louisiana beginning in the 1760's
- a protest in which people refuse to buy certain goods or use certain services until specific conditions are met
- a place where the river meets the sea
- a form of agriculture in which a landowner allows a tenant to use his land in return for a share of the crops produced on their portion of land
- a time in the nineteenth century America before the Civil War began
24 Clues: buying and selling goods • the name given to former slaves • a place where the river meets the sea • the act of officially ending something • the quantity of a good and cannot be changed • something that has been done and cannot be changed • questioning people to obtain information or opinion • French Canadians who came to Louisiana beginning in the 1760's • ...
List of Presidents (1-20) 2025-10-21
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- General in the Union during the Civil War
- Made many significant contributions in only a 7 month term as president
- A major general in the Mexican-American war
- Known for the Indian Removal Act which lead to the Trail of Tears
- First president to be born a citizen and not under British rule
- Created the sedition act of 1798
- 1st President
- Signed the joint resolution to annex Texas...also has the most kid of any president
- Known for the campaign slogan of "Fifty-four Forty or Fight!"
- Admitted Minnesota and Kansas as a state
- Bought Louisiana in the Louisiana Purchase
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- Delivered the longest inaugural speech but had the shortest term as president
- President during the Civil War, signed the Emancipation Proclamation, Gettysburg Address
- Won the election of 1876, the closest presidential election, won only by one electoral vote
- Signed the Kansas Nebraska Act
- President during Reconstruction
- 6th President,met George Washington and Abraham Lincoln
- Signed the Compromise of 1850 and passed the Fugitive Slave Act
- Known for the Monroe Doctrine
- President during the war of 1812
20 Clues: 1st President • Known for the Monroe Doctrine • Signed the Kansas Nebraska Act • President during Reconstruction • Created the sedition act of 1798 • President during the war of 1812 • Admitted Minnesota and Kansas as a state • General in the Union during the Civil War • Bought Louisiana in the Louisiana Purchase • A major general in the Mexican-American war • ...
3/29 Crossword 2021-03-29
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- the north
- main general of the south
- president of the confederacy
- plan to strangle the south by blocking ports
- Replacement general for the north
- the south
- major advantage of the north
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- first major battle of the civil war
- major advantage of the south
- a major cause of the civil war
- president of the Union
- Stonewall General who helped the Confederacy win at Bull Run
- capital of the confederacy
- nickname for northern soldiers
14 Clues: the north • the south • president of the Union • main general of the south • capital of the confederacy • major advantage of the south • president of the confederacy • major advantage of the north • a major cause of the civil war • nickname for northern soldiers • Replacement general for the north • first major battle of the civil war • plan to strangle the south by blocking ports • ...
Reconstruction 2021-02-08
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- A temporary government.
- Constitutional law that guarantees citizenship and equal protection under the law to people who have been enslaved.
- A formerly enslaved person, now free.
- Something that is required.
- A Republican who believed that Congress should direct Reconstruction.
- Constitutional law that guarantees African Americans the right to vote.
- A Northerner in the South working for a Reconstruction Government.
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- The official release from punishment of a crime.
- Constitutional laws that prohibits slavery.
- The effort after the Civil war, to reorganize the seceded states and bring them back into the Union.
- Laws limiting the rights of African Americans passed by Southern Governments after the Civil War.
- A secret organization of white men formed after the Civil War that used terror and violence against African Americans.
- Means to cancel
- A white southerner who supported Reconstruction.
14 Clues: Means to cancel • A temporary government. • Something that is required. • A formerly enslaved person, now free. • Constitutional laws that prohibits slavery. • The official release from punishment of a crime. • A white southerner who supported Reconstruction. • A Northerner in the South working for a Reconstruction Government. • ...
2nd Semester Crossword word bank 2025-05-13
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- lee his effort to reunite the country following the American Civil War.
- sumter National Historical Park renowned as the site where the first shots of the Civil War were fired on April 12, 1861
- codes restrict the rights and freedoms of newly freed African American
- a 19th-century warship with armor plating.
- amendment equal protection under the law, and due process
- Theatre most famously known as the site of President Abraham Lincoln's assassination
- amendment abolished slavery and involuntary servitude
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- Tubman Harriet Tubman was an American abolitionist and social activist. After escaping slavery,
- grant Grant was a highly decorated Union general in the American Civil War,
- war a war between citizens of the same country.
- gin is a machine that quickly and easily separates cotton
- Jackson seventh president of the United States
- amendment right to vote based on "race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
- withdraw formally from membership of a federal union
14 Clues: a 19th-century warship with armor plating. • Jackson seventh president of the United States • war a war between citizens of the same country. • withdraw formally from membership of a federal union • amendment abolished slavery and involuntary servitude • gin is a machine that quickly and easily separates cotton • ...
Civil War Vocab 2023-01-20
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- Puts the local interests
- nickname for people from the North
- When the southern states leave the USA
- fought for the north in the civil war
- Soldiers that fight and travel by foot.
- Law was A law passed by Congress in 1850
- The northern states of the United States
- The side of an army or military unit.
- A nickname for the Confederate States of America
- When a person is killed for political rsn
- A person who wanted to eliminate slavery
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- An army of citizens used during emergencies
- An attempt to stop people and items
- The rebuilding of war southern states
- was A nickname for the South.
- slave states who didn't leave the union
- Fought for the south in the civil war
- soldier that is wounded,killed during battle
18 Clues: Puts the local interests • was A nickname for the South. • nickname for people from the North • An attempt to stop people and items • The rebuilding of war southern states • fought for the north in the civil war • Fought for the south in the civil war • The side of an army or military unit. • When the southern states leave the USA • slave states who didn't leave the union • ...
A cuh ́s cross word 2022-03-04
10 Clues: who won the war • Won the election • very popular in the south • popular crop in the south • in charge of the union army • in charge of the confederate army • The reason on why the war started • The first battle of the civil war • The battle that changed the civil war • someone who killed the president at the time
Civil War Crossword Puzzle 2021-04-30
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- control of an organization or group by the majority of its members.
- A soldier that is wounded or killed during the battle.
- The freeing of slaves.
- An army of citizens used during emergencies.
- Midwesterners that sympathized with the south and opposed abolition.
- The North side of the war.
- Putting the local interests and customs ahead of the entire country.
- The South side of the war.
- Union cavalry captured the __________ Confederate President Jefferson Davis.
- A long gun with a smooth bore that soldiers used.
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- Ships heavily armored with iron.
- A nickname given to people in the South supporting the Confederate States.
- Crackers eaten by the Civil War soldiers.
- A person who wanted to eliminate or "abolish" slavery.
- Battle of ___________ also known as the turning point in the civil war.
- Escaped slaves.
- Destroying civilian and economic resources.
- a series of military operations intended to achieve a particular objective.
- A nickname for the South.
- When the southern states chose to leave the US and to no longer be a part of the country.
20 Clues: Escaped slaves. • The freeing of slaves. • A nickname for the South. • The North side of the war. • The South side of the war. • Ships heavily armored with iron. • Crackers eaten by the Civil War soldiers. • Destroying civilian and economic resources. • An army of citizens used during emergencies. • A long gun with a smooth bore that soldiers used. • ...
Chapter 16/17 Hailey Anderson 2024-01-28
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- In the civil war, both sides had to have well a thought out ——————————.
- South Carolina was the first state to —————— from the United States.
- He escaped from jail and became a —————————.
- Charlotte is a ————————— from Charlottes web.
- You didn’t ———————— your answer.
- He was forced to ———————— in the army.
- More men in a war —————————— that side of the war.
- ————————————— teams are a force that opposes or slows motion.
- There was no ———————— in the car accident.
- The United States of America had a —————— ——— from 1861-1865.
- —————————— were notes that were notes that were issued during the civil war.
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- The soldiers restocked their weapons in the ——————.
- Lincoln signed the ————————————— ————————————— and freed all the slaves in the rebelling states.
- A —————————— can flow into the Mississippi River.
- There was a 1,000 dollar —————————— if they returned a runaway slave.
- I ————————— my business’s goals in the realiy.
- The ambush of Fort Sumpter was a —————— ————.
- Kentucky was for —————— ———————.
- Kentucky was a ————————— ——————.
- After South Carolina seceded, the —————————— of other southern states was concerning.
20 Clues: You didn’t ———————— your answer. • Kentucky was for —————— ———————. • Kentucky was a ————————— ——————. • He was forced to ———————— in the army. • There was no ———————— in the car accident. • He escaped from jail and became a —————————. • Charlotte is a ————————— from Charlottes web. • The ambush of Fort Sumpter was a —————— ————. • ...
CP Spelling List #3 2024-01-04
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- a date assigned to an event that is earlier than the actual date of the event
- arrange something to take place at a later time
- occurring before a particular war, especially the Civil War
- favorable or advantageous
- situated in or near to the front
- one who commits an offense against the law
- failure to function normally
- desire to cause pain, injury, or distress to another
- clumsy or inept
- occurring before noon
- of, relating to, or characteristic of the period following a war, especially the Civil War
- someone or something that provides help or an advantage
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- something that promotes goodness or well-being
- dissatisfied with the existing state of affairs
- organized for the purpose of doing good
- depressing; dreary; gloomy
- the hinder parts of the body; buttocks
- an advantage or profit gained from something
- a note added to a completed letter
- a human disease transmitted by mosquitoes
- of or relating to the afternoon
- situated before or toward the front
- having or showing a desire to cause harm to someone
- done, occurring, or collected after death
24 Clues: clumsy or inept • occurring before noon • favorable or advantageous • depressing; dreary; gloomy • failure to function normally • of or relating to the afternoon • situated in or near to the front • a note added to a completed letter • situated before or toward the front • the hinder parts of the body; buttocks • organized for the purpose of doing good • ...
civil war 2020-03-15
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- Also known as the Battle of Pittsburg Landing. One of the best changes the Confederacy had to win the war in the West. Took place on April 6 to April 7, 1862. End with a Union victory. It also signaled the start of the terrible death and suffering that the rest of the war would bring. And gave the Union army greater control of the Mississippi River valley.
- Licoln issued it on January 1, 1863 Broadened the goals of the Civil War, made freeing the slaves an explicit goal of the Union war effort. It added moral force to the Union cause and strengthened the Union both militarily and politically.
- Loyal to Virginia, a commander of the Confederate States Army, he had commanded the Army of Northern Virginia, the most successful of the Southern armies during the American Civil War, and ultimately commanded all the Confederate armies.
- Played the central role during the Civil War. The primary catalyst for secession. The Confederacy’s early military successes depended significantly on it. Had a great impact on the economy of the South. And one of the main causes in the civil war.
- The battle that marked the beginning of the American Civil War (April 12–13, 1861).
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- The 16th president of the United States, who leading the country during the American Civil War, pushed for the freedom of all slaves throughout the nation, abolish slavery but he was not an abolitionist.
- The withdrawal of 11 slave states from the Union during 1860–1861.
- Where one of the major battles took place during the civil war (July 1 to July 3, 1863), was a Union victory that stopped Confederate General Robert E. Lee's second invasion of the North, and also where an important address of LIncoln takes place (November 19, 1863) that is less than 275 words.
- Also known as the Battle of Manassas, marked the first major land battle of the American Civil War ( July 21, 1861). This battle helped boost Southern morale and made the North realize that this would be a long war.
- Was one of the most important events of the Civil War, the “ bloodiest single day” in American military history (September 17, 1862). The battle marked the culmination of Confederate General Robert E. Lee's first invasion of the Northern states. And was the Union victory there led to issuing the Emancipation Proclamation.
10 Clues: The withdrawal of 11 slave states from the Union during 1860–1861. • The battle that marked the beginning of the American Civil War (April 12–13, 1861). • ...
U.S. History Super Duper Mega Ultra Crossword 2023-05-24
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- Harriet of the Underground Railroad
- The second president
- Roanoke tree inscription
- They fought the union in the civil war
- First ten amendments
- Jackson's bill
- Opposite of a patriot
- It was a revolution but not a war
- Lexington & ____________
- Taxation without this makes the colonists mad
- Continent Columbus was looking for
- Helped Jamestown survive the starving times
- Last name of Rev. War traitor
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- Four score speech
- Té fiesta city
- Amendment that ended slavery
- G.W.'s house
- Freedom of speech is in this amendment
- President that did not get along with Hamilton
- Trail that many took out West
- # of supreme court members
- She guided Lewis and Clark
- Biggest crop of the South
- New Orleans river with 4 different letters
- New York canal that connected to lake of same name
- Benjamin Franklin suggested that this be the national bird
- People rushed to Cali to find this
- the branch of w/ the president
- Jefferson's purchase
- They fought against the confederacy in the civil war
30 Clues: G.W.'s house • Té fiesta city • Jackson's bill • Four score speech • The second president • First ten amendments • Jefferson's purchase • Opposite of a patriot • Roanoke tree inscription • Lexington & ____________ • Biggest crop of the South • # of supreme court members • She guided Lewis and Clark • Amendment that ended slavery • Trail that many took out West • Last name of Rev. War traitor • ...
Battles of civil war 2023-03-09
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- was fought on November 7, 1861 in Mississippi County, Missouri. It was the first combat test in the American Civil War for Brig. Gen.
- Battle of Sharpsburg particularly in the Southern United States, was a battle of the American Civil War fought on September 17, 1862
- formed part of the Western Virginia Campaign of the American Civil War and was fought in and around Philippi, Virginia, on June 3, 1861.
- known as the Battle of First Manassas, was the first major battle of the American Civil War
- in which no side could claim victory, marked the first stage of a major Union offensive toward the Confederate capital
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- considered Gen. Robert E. Lee's greatest military victory.
- led to the capture of that critical Confederate city and opened the door for Maj. Gen.
- took place on September 1, 1862, in Fairfax County, Virginia, as the concluding battle of the Northern Virginia Campaign of the American Civil War
- battle was fought July 1–3, 1863, in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, by Union and Confederate forces during the American Civil War
- known as the Battle of Pittsburg Landing, allowed Union troops to penetrate the Confederate interior
10 Clues: considered Gen. Robert E. Lee's greatest military victory. • led to the capture of that critical Confederate city and opened the door for Maj. Gen. • known as the Battle of First Manassas, was the first major battle of the American Civil War • known as the Battle of Pittsburg Landing, allowed Union troops to penetrate the Confederate interior • ...
The Nation Divides and Civil War Begins 2020-02-13
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- Civil War battle in Tennessee in which the Union army gained greater control over the Mississippi river valley
- 11 states that seceded from the Union
- A series of debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas during 1858 campaign
- Enslaved man who waited 11 years for the Supreme Court's hearing
- Where the first battle of the Civil War happened
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- Long-term effect of the debate over slavery
- Was the bloodiest single-day battle of the Civil War
- Series of clashes that forced the Union Army to retreat from near Richmond
- Made it a crime to help runaway slaves and allowed officials to arrest those slaves in free states
- Was the first major battle of the Civil war and the Cofederates’ victory
- Henry Clay's proposed agreement that allowed California to enter the Union as a free state
11 Clues: 11 states that seceded from the Union • Long-term effect of the debate over slavery • Where the first battle of the Civil War happened • Was the bloodiest single-day battle of the Civil War • Enslaved man who waited 11 years for the Supreme Court's hearing • Series of clashes that forced the Union Army to retreat from near Richmond • ...
Civil War Crossword 2023-05-12
9 Clues: elected in 1860 • Confederate general • Equal protection clause • Born on January 21 1824 • 1st battle of the civil war • Amendment that abolished slavery • Bloodiest battle in the civil war • 3rd major battle of the civil war • All US citizens should have the right to vote
Civil War Crossword 2023-05-12
9 Clues: elected in 1860 • Confederate general • Equal protection clause • Born on January 21 1824 • 1st battle of the civil war • Amendment that abolished slavery • Bloodiest battle in the civil war • 3rd major battle of the civil war • All US citizens should have the right to vote
U.S.A History Crossword 2024-03-12
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- What was the name of the ship that transported the Pilgrims to the New World?
- 4th President
- The famous speech delivered by Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War
- The site of the decisive battle located in Virginia during the American Revolution in 1781
- Only president to serve for four terms
- The President who signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law
- The U.S. President who negotiated the Louisiana Purchase
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- The law passed in 1862 that provided settlers with 160 acres of land in the West if they improved it and lived on it for five years
- The first battle of the American Revolution
- First US Colony
- Who was president during World War I?
- First battle of the Civil War
- Who said "One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind"
- First State
14 Clues: First State • 4th President • First US Colony • First battle of the Civil War • Who was president during World War I? • Only president to serve for four terms • The first battle of the American Revolution • The U.S. President who negotiated the Louisiana Purchase • Who said "One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind" • ...
The Civil War 2022-01-31
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- Civil War battle that caused over 50,000 casualties
- Longest single battle of the American Civil War
- U.S. President who served the Confederacy during the Civil War
- President of the Confederate States of America
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- Era after the civil war
- First state to secede from the Union
- Secretary of State during the Civil War
7 Clues: Era after the civil war • First state to secede from the Union • Secretary of State during the Civil War • President of the Confederate States of America • Longest single battle of the American Civil War • Civil War battle that caused over 50,000 casualties • U.S. President who served the Confederacy during the Civil War
Civil war crossword puzzle 2022-03-03
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- the practice or system of owning slaves.
- break away from a nation
- Run away
- The person who went against Lincoln in 1860
- a person who dies for a cause
- 16th president
- withdrawal
- Tax on imports
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- A book that helped cause the civil war
- Slave rebellion that ended out a failure
- a person who favors the abolition of a practice
- to vote for someone
- To join
- what southerners considered themselves in the civil war
14 Clues: To join • Run away • withdrawal • 16th president • Tax on imports • to vote for someone • break away from a nation • a person who dies for a cause • A book that helped cause the civil war • Slave rebellion that ended out a failure • the practice or system of owning slaves. • The person who went against Lincoln in 1860 • a person who favors the abolition of a practice • ...
Unit 7 Vocab 2023-04-04
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- Armored naval vessel
- confederate soldiers so called because of opposition to the established government
- Political theory that government is subject to the will of the people
- Withdrawal from the union
- to leave or withdrawal
- Camera that used a glass plate to take photos
- war of all aspects of the enemy's life
- rights and powers independent of the federal government
- Union soldier
- States between North and South that were divided whether to stay in the union or confederacy
- To free from slavery
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- Military person killed, wounded, or captured
- Led union armies to victory
- Tended to wounded and dying during the battle
- conflicts between opposing groups of citizens of some country
- United States of America of the Union
- Confederate States of America
- President of the United States of America during the time of the civil war
- Reunite the country following the American civil war.
19 Clues: Union soldier • Armored naval vessel • To free from slavery • to leave or withdrawal • Withdrawal from the union • Led union armies to victory • Confederate States of America • United States of America of the Union • war of all aspects of the enemy's life • Military person killed, wounded, or captured • Tended to wounded and dying during the battle • ...
(11/6) The Civil War - Lessons 1-3 2020-11-05
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- True/False: The Civil War for the Union started as an effort to preserve the Union
- North v South - Majority of the economy was industrial; 90% of the nation's factories
- North v South - Had a strong military tradition; 7 of 8 military academies were located here
- THIS decree by President Lincoln stated that all slaves in states of open rebellion would be freed
- During Sherman's March to the Sea, Union forces marched through Georgia "looting and plundering" what was in their path
- The Civil War is considered the first "_________" war; new bullets, trenches, and tactics revolutionized the way war was fought
- The firing on this fort by Confederate soldiers started the Civil war
- The __________ Plan was the Union's plan to surround and divide the South, to squeeze it of its resources/ability to fight
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- Devoting one's resources, economy, and society toward the war effort
- The tactic Ulysses S. Grant used on the city of Vicksburg, by blockading and surrounding it, forcing it to surrender
- Bloodiest one-day battle in US history
- North v South - Primarily agricultural economy
- As the war progressed, the Civil War for the Union became an effort to end slavery
- North v South - Had a strong naval tradition
- This battle, won by the Union, put Robert E Lee and the Confederacy on the defensive for the remainder of the war
- Courthouse in which Robert E Lee surrendered to Ulysses S Grant
- wearing down of one side through exhaustion of soldiers and resources
17 Clues: Bloodiest one-day battle in US history • North v South - Had a strong naval tradition • North v South - Primarily agricultural economy • Courthouse in which Robert E Lee surrendered to Ulysses S Grant • Devoting one's resources, economy, and society toward the war effort • wearing down of one side through exhaustion of soldiers and resources • ...
Bundle 4: Lessons 4 - 6 2023-01-25
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- Worked to improve the state military and joined the Confederate army as a lieutenant colonel.
- __________ - Nebraska Act gave the people of Kansas and Nebraska the right to decide if their states would allow slavery.
- "Texas Brigade"
- One reason Texas became involved in the Civil War.
- Texas supported tariffs that were ______.
- Ranching, sharecropping, tenant farming and railroad construction came to ___________ the state’s economy.
- German settlers did not approve of this!
- Sam Houston said the Constitution and Union were worth this.
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- German ____________ includes towns of Kerrville, Fredericksburg, and Hondo.
- Successful town founded and named for Henri Castro.
- First __________ of the Civil War were fired on April 12, 1861.
- Made money by selling goods to colonists.
- Most battles of the Civil War in Texas were fought on the Gulf of __________.
- Moved here for cheap land and a better life.
14 Clues: "Texas Brigade" • German settlers did not approve of this! • Texas supported tariffs that were ______. • Made money by selling goods to colonists. • Moved here for cheap land and a better life. • One reason Texas became involved in the Civil War. • Successful town founded and named for Henri Castro. • Sam Houston said the Constitution and Union were worth this. • ...
APUSH 2021-12-09
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- Pope He was a senior Union officer and is famous for his exploits in the Eastern Theatre.
- states- Something on the border….
- He was an influential figure of the French Revolution.
- Tompkins- and the first woman to have been formally inducted into an army in American history.
- Lee He was a general in the civil war. He won two battles and was in the battle of Gettysburg
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- Party- was a short-lived political party in the United States, formed in 1936 by a coalition of radio priests.
- Meade He was an army officer That defeated Robert Lee in the battle of Gettysburg.
- Blackwell- She is notable as the first woman to receive a medical degree in the United States.
- McClellan-He was a general in the army and he warned about the union.
- adams-played an important role in keeping Britain neutral during the Civil War
- Amendment- “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.”
- Barton She was a nurse and founded the red cross.
- a vessel
- Old U.S currency
- Chase He was a politician and a judge. He was also in charge of managing the finances of the union during the civil war.
- affair- A altercation with the union and the confederate diplomats
- He was an aggressive leader and He was a major general.
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- Davis-He was an American politician who served as the president of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1865.
- Campaign It was fought on May 5–7, 1864, during the American Civil War. It was the first battle of Union Lieutenant General Ulysses S.
- joe the nickname for a military commander. (He was a cavalry general)
- act-”Up to 160 Acres”
- Peace Democrats
- Barton- She was an American nurse who founded the American Red Cross.
- Proclamation- President Abraham Lincoln issued this document. (January 1st 1863)
- virginia- Its a state in the west
- sumter- A walled in base used in the civil war
- banking system- A system for the National currency
- 111- was the first President of France
- Man Without a Country- This is a book by Kurt Vonnegut.
- L He was a politician that got exiled.
31 Clues: 21 • a vessel • Peace Democrats • Old U.S currency • act-”Up to 160 Acres” • states- Something on the border…. • virginia- Its a state in the west • 111- was the first President of France • L He was a politician that got exiled. • sumter- A walled in base used in the civil war • Barton She was a nurse and founded the red cross. • banking system- A system for the National currency • ...
Women in the Civil War 2024-05-15
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- a book about slavery written by H. Stowe
- freed slaves & served as a nurse & spy
- separating people out by race
- unselfish or giving
- site of the largest Civil War battle in PA
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- wrote the book Uncle Tom's Cabin
- a war between the north and south
- spoke out about the rights of women
- president during the Civil War
- Organization founded by Clara Barton
- one human owning another
- a nurse that founded the Red Cross
12 Clues: unselfish or giving • one human owning another • separating people out by race • president during the Civil War • wrote the book Uncle Tom's Cabin • a war between the north and south • a nurse that founded the Red Cross • spoke out about the rights of women • Organization founded by Clara Barton • freed slaves & served as a nurse & spy • a book about slavery written by H. Stowe • ...
kakapuukspeer 2 2022-05-31
James Longstreet 2022-05-20
10 Clues: he died in ___ • his first wife • the year he was born • his life long friend • this was his nickname • he moved to ___ after the war • he traded this after the civil war • a war he fought in besides the civil war • he married someone __ years younger than him • he was injured by ___ at the battle of the wilderness
Saivi Bhandary - Texas History Crossword 2021-05-03
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- animals that are raised on farms and ranches
- A form of peaceful protests
- To leave from a different territory
- To give up from battle
- Northern states in the Civil War
- People who sold land to Americans migrating to Texas
- An overthrow of the government
- People aligning themselves with more of a region of a country than the whole country
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- The father of Texas
- Free from control and dependence
- making an area more populated and city like
- a portion of a business people can buy
- To leave from a place
- rights of citizens to political, social, freedom, and equality
- the deadliest and most destructive war of all time
- The state of people legally being someone else’s property
- The southern states in the civil war
- A historic place where a Texas battle was held
18 Clues: The father of Texas • To leave from a place • To give up from battle • A form of peaceful protests • An overthrow of the government • Free from control and dependence • Northern states in the Civil War • To leave from a different territory • The southern states in the civil war • a portion of a business people can buy • making an area more populated and city like • ...
Civil War Crossword Puzzle 2020-10-02
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- A tax to help pay for the war by taking part of one’s earnings.
- These are people who wished to remove, or abolish, the practice of slavery.
- The title for the Southern side of the United States who fought for slavery to remain legal, but lost the Civil War.
- A place named after a town in Virginia where the South surrendered to the North on April 8,1865, ending the Civil War.
- A battle in the Civil war, named after a town in Pennsylvania, which was won by the North, but had great losses for both sides, inspiring a cemetery to be built there.
- An American Confederate general named after his strong defense.
- This amendment was created for the US Constitution in 1865, which abolished slavery and involuntary servitude by making it illegal in the United States.
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- A military drafting of citizens.
- A Union army officer famous for his March to the Sea, which is named after him, where he captured Atlanta, Georgia.
- An executive order made by Abraham Lincoln to free the slaves in all US territory behind Confederate lines.
- The title for the Northern side of the United States who fought against slavery and won the Civil War.
- The 16 president of the United States and first to be assassinated, who led them during the Civil War and ended slavery and is famous for his speech, The Gettysburg Address.
- An actor who assassinated the president due to his support of the Confederacy.
- A general for the American Union and commander of their armies who quickly captured two Confederate forts and was surrendered to by the South.
- A American general who replaced General Joseph E. Johnson on the confederate side, but despite this, was against slavery and only sided with the South as it was his homeland, yet he eventually surrendered to the North.
15 Clues: A military drafting of citizens. • A tax to help pay for the war by taking part of one’s earnings. • An American Confederate general named after his strong defense. • These are people who wished to remove, or abolish, the practice of slavery. • An actor who assassinated the president due to his support of the Confederacy. • ...
Civil War Vocab 2023-01-20
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- Puts the local interests
- nickname for people from the North
- When the southern states leave the USA
- fought for the north in the civil war
- Soldiers that fight and travel by foot.
- Law was A law passed by Congress in 1850
- The northern states of the United States
- The side of an army or military unit.
- A nickname for the Confederate States of America
- When a person is killed for political rsn
- A person who wanted to eliminate slavery
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- An army of citizens used during emergencies
- An attempt to stop people and items
- The rebuilding of war southern states
- was A nickname for the South.
- slave states who didn't leave the union
- Fought for the south in the civil war
- soldier that is wounded,killed during battle
18 Clues: Puts the local interests • was A nickname for the South. • nickname for people from the North • An attempt to stop people and items • The rebuilding of war southern states • fought for the north in the civil war • Fought for the south in the civil war • The side of an army or military unit. • When the southern states leave the USA • slave states who didn't leave the union • ...
Civil War Crossword 2023-05-23
8 Clues: The 16th President • Who won the Civil War • Who assassinated the 16th President • What was the turning point of the war • How many years did the civil war last • The first state to secede from the Union • The court house where the civil war ended • What was the bloodiest one-day battle in the war
Colonial America crossword 2022-08-23
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- the people from Britain that lived in America pre civil war
- the rebellion that ended the articles of confederation
- the man who made the principal life liberty and property
- what a person who was for U.S constitution was called
- tax on imported goods
- one of the items invented in Europe to help overseas exploration
- The war that separated Britain and The colonies
- Spanish army ran by Hernan Cortes
- latin for before the war
- Powers are shared by the state and federal government
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- the English settlers who founded the first permanent settlement in new England
- alteration of an existing law
- what America gained through the civil war
- one of the 13 colonies next to Indiana
- a period of invention and knowledge in Europe
- a person doing forced labor with no payments
- this is what colonists didn't feel they had enough of
- people who sought to purify the church
- what type of government the U.S constitution is
- a payment on goods colonists felt they had too much of
20 Clues: tax on imported goods • latin for before the war • alteration of an existing law • Spanish army ran by Hernan Cortes • one of the 13 colonies next to Indiana • people who sought to purify the church • what America gained through the civil war • a person doing forced labor with no payments • a period of invention and knowledge in Europe • ...
Keona Fisher chapter 5 2020-12-23
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- high ranking official
- process of adopting western culture
- body of advisors to the head of state
- struggle for global primacy between britian and france
- ruler of one of the worlds largest empires
- sharing power with an organized government
- longest recorded monarch of Europe
- events leading to the deposition of james II and james VII
- return of a hereditary monarch
- sought to crush domestic factions
- credited with bringing russia into the modern age
- requires a person under arrest to be brought before a judge
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- conflict fought in europe
- hereditary monarchy
- subject to no earthly authority
- only female ruler of habsburg dominion
- war fought over religous freedom
- grand prince of moscow
- used to promote civil unity
- theory that knowledge is impossible
- general who led parliament against king charles I
- longest reign of any hohenzollern king
- next in rank to a prince
- king of great britian
24 Clues: hereditary monarchy • high ranking official • king of great britian • grand prince of moscow • next in rank to a prince • conflict fought in europe • used to promote civil unity • return of a hereditary monarch • subject to no earthly authority • war fought over religous freedom • sought to crush domestic factions • longest recorded monarch of Europe • ...
Civil War a Time of Reconstruction 2023-05-15
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- People can work on crops to get 1/2 of them.
- These were used to cause separation between people of color and those with fair skin.
- This battle is also referred to as the Battle of the Monitors.
- These states stayed with the Union even though they were slave states.
- This enslaved African sued for his freedom.
- This woman created the Red Cross.
- This was the name of the Northern side.
- This battle was also known as the Battle of Pittsburg Landing.
- A slave law that required people to return escaped slaves.
- This President lead us to the Civil War.
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- To set free.
- The person wrote a novel on Anti-Slavery.
- A written law that changed how colored people were treated.
- A group of people who thought that people of color should be singled out.
- A period after the war.
- Lead people to Bleeding Kansas.
- The Southern side of the war.
- A war fought between a nation.
- The act of withdrawing.
- This battle was the first to have females fighting on both sides.
20 Clues: To set free. • A period after the war. • The act of withdrawing. • The Southern side of the war. • A war fought between a nation. • Lead people to Bleeding Kansas. • This woman created the Red Cross. • This was the name of the Northern side. • This President lead us to the Civil War. • The person wrote a novel on Anti-Slavery. • This enslaved African sued for his freedom. • ...
Historical American People and Events 2023-05-17
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- Winning this war gave America its Independence 1775-1782
- 342 chest of tea dropped into Boston Harbor
- 13 Original States in the US
- Boston soldiers shot into crowd killing 3 injuring 9
- A human owned by another human/forced to work without pay
- Supported the Constitution and a stronger national republic
- 4th President of the United States
- Northern side of the civil war/fought to end slavery
- Withdraw from commercial or social relations with (a country, organization, or person) as a punishment or protest.
- Southern side of the civil war/fought for slavery
- A person that wanted to end slavery
- 5th President of the United States
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- 3rd President of the United States
- On the $100 bill/One of the founding fathers/Made the lightning rod
- 2nd President of the United States
- Crops Crops made to sell
- 1st President of the United States
- 16th President of the United States/Freed Slaves/Emancipation Proclamation
- Opposed the ratification of the Constitution in favor of small localized government.
- War started over slaves 1861-1865
20 Clues: 13 Original States in the US • Crops Crops made to sell • War started over slaves 1861-1865 • 3rd President of the United States • 2nd President of the United States • 1st President of the United States • 4th President of the United States • 5th President of the United States • A person that wanted to end slavery • 342 chest of tea dropped into Boston Harbor • ...
The US Civil War 2021-10-27
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- President of the Confederate Union.
- Considered the greatest Confederate commander, but died after his own troops accidentally shot him.
- Given the honor of commanding the troops that formally accepted the surrender of the confederate army.
- what ended the civil war?
- General in Chief of the Armies of the confederate states.
- Freed over 70 slaves through the Underground Railroad.
- Assassinated President Lincoln because he was outraged at the South's defeat in the war.
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- Union General that marched from Atlanta to Savannah, Georgia destroying everything in his path.
- President of the United States during the Civil War.
- General in-chief of the union army; elected president of the United States in 1869.
- wrote the book uncle Tom's Cabin, which heavily influenced public opinion of the Civil War.
- Escaped from slavery and became a leader of the abolitionist movement.
- Famous union nurse that later founded the American Red cross.
13 Clues: what ended the civil war? • President of the Confederate Union. • President of the United States during the Civil War. • Freed over 70 slaves through the Underground Railroad. • General in Chief of the Armies of the confederate states. • Famous union nurse that later founded the American Red cross. • ...
Civil War and Reconstruction Vocabulary Part 2 2025-01-24
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- The place in Virginia where Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union General Ulysses S. Grant in 1865, ending the Civil War.
- Buildings where goods are made using machines and workers, often producing items like clothing, tools, or weapons.
- The group of Northern states that fought to keep the United States together during the Civil War and opposed slavery.
- A system of trains and tracks used to transport people and goods quickly across long distances.
- An order by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863 that declared enslaved people in Confederate states free.
- A major Civil War battle in 1863 where the Union gained control of the Mississippi River, cutting off supplies to the Confederacy.
- A plant used to make fabric and one of the most important crops in the Southern United States before and after the Civil War.
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- The last battle of the Civil War, fought in Texas in 1865, even though the war had officially ended.
- A celebration marking June 19, 1865, when enslaved people in Texas learned they were free, two years after the Emancipation Proclamation.
- A law passed after the Civil War that divided the South into military districts and required Southern states to follow new rules before rejoining the Union, including protecting the rights of freed African Americans.
10 Clues: A system of trains and tracks used to transport people and goods quickly across long distances. • The last battle of the Civil War, fought in Texas in 1865, even though the war had officially ended. • An order by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863 that declared enslaved people in Confederate states free. • ...
Chapter 12 crossword from Maple Moore 2022-04-14
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- a system where the landlord/planter allows a tenant to use the land in exchange for a share of the crop
- used by Southerners to describe opportunistic Northerners who came to the Southern states after the American Civil War
- the period 1865–1877 that followed the American Civil War in attempts to redress the inequities of slavery
- the 17th president of the united states.
- known for their opposition to slavery, their efforts to ensure emancipation and civil rights for Blacks with strong opinions on post-war reconstruction
- referred to white Southerners who supported Reconstruction
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- restricted black people's right to own property, conduct business, buy and lease land, and move freely through public spaces
- an amendment that granted citizenship and equal civil and legal rights to African Americans and enslaved people who had been emancipated after the American Civil War.
- congress passed An Act to establish a Bureau for the Relief of Freedmen and Refugees
- The amendment for everyone to be able to vote despite of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
- the process in which a legislative body or other legal tribunal initiates charges against a public official for misconduct.
- congress passed this bill to provide for the admission of representation for rebel states upon meeting certain conditions.
- The first African American to be elected senator
13 Clues: the 17th president of the united states. • The first African American to be elected senator • referred to white Southerners who supported Reconstruction • congress passed An Act to establish a Bureau for the Relief of Freedmen and Refugees • a system where the landlord/planter allows a tenant to use the land in exchange for a share of the crop • ...
Reconstruction Vocab 2025-08-12
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- The time period after the Civil War.
- The crime of betraying your country.
- President of the Union at the Start of the War.
- An indirect veto of a bill by the President, deals with it too late and the bill expires.
- Name of the Southern states during the Civil War.
- A pardon for political offences, typically for a group of people.
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- A large meeting of people to talk and make decisions.
- Allows a person convicted of a crime to be free.
- A promise about one's future actions or behaviors.
- The term for the United States as one nation, and the name for the Northern side during the Civil War
- An official change or addition to the Constitution.
- An act of violent op open resistance to the government.
12 Clues: The time period after the Civil War. • The crime of betraying your country. • President of the Union at the Start of the War. • Allows a person convicted of a crime to be free. • Name of the Southern states during the Civil War. • A promise about one's future actions or behaviors. • An official change or addition to the Constitution. • ...
The Civil War 2025-04-22
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- The highest General of the Confederate Army
- A strategy of war that caused destruction to all property
- Nickname for the Confederate soldiers since they were rebelling against the Union
- Assassinated Abraham Lincoln
- The highest General of the Union Army
- New type of naval ship that was plated with metal
- Battle that gave control of the Mississippi River
- Name of the Union's plan to defeat the Confederacy
- To leave or break away
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- The Act that required men 20-45 to sign up for the Union draft
- These states were in the Union but allowed slavery
- Bloodiest single day in American history
- Thomas Jackson's nickname he received during the Battle of Bull Run
- Fort where the Civil War officially began
- President of the Union
- President of the Confederacy
- To set free
- Battle where civilians picnicked on the side
- Biggest battle of the Civil War and where Lincoln gave his address
19 Clues: To set free • President of the Union • To leave or break away • Assassinated Abraham Lincoln • President of the Confederacy • The highest General of the Union Army • Bloodiest single day in American history • Fort where the Civil War officially began • The highest General of the Confederate Army • Battle where civilians picnicked on the side • ...
Reconstruction Crossword 2025-03-21
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- To approve something officially. The states had to ratify (approve) the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to be part of the Union again.
- Not allowed or prohibited. During slavery, it was forbidden for enslaved people to learn how to read or write.
- A part of something. In sharecropping, workers gave a share of the crops to the landowner.
- Suggested or put forward for people to consider. The amendments to the Constitution were proposed during Reconstruction.
- Official changes to a law or document. The Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments were added to the Constitution.
- To leave or break away from a group or country. Southern states seceded from the Union during the Civil War.
- Meetings where people gather to do something important, like writing new state rules (constitutions) after the Civil War.
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- Broken, ruined, or torn down. Many cities and buildings in the South were destroyed during the Civil War.
- To forgive someone for doing something wrong. After the Civil War, it meant forgiving the South for leaving the Union.
- In return for something. In sharecropping, the landowner gave land to workers in exchange for a part of the crops.
- To make or arrange something. Congress set up a plan to rebuild the South after the Civil War.
- To join or participate in something, like voting or being involved in government.
- People who owned slaves and controlled their work. Plantation owners were the masters of enslaved people.
- Money paid for work. After slavery ended, many former slaves did not get wages for their work but worked in sharecropping instead.
14 Clues: To join or participate in something, like voting or being involved in government. • A part of something. In sharecropping, workers gave a share of the crops to the landowner. • To make or arrange something. Congress set up a plan to rebuild the South after the Civil War. • ...
The Civil War 2022-01-31
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- Civil War battle that caused over 50,000 casualties
- Longest single battle of the American Civil War
- U.S. President who served the Confederacy during the Civil War
- President of the Confederate States of America
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- Era after the civil war
- First state to secede from the Union
- Secretary of State during the Civil War
7 Clues: Era after the civil war • First state to secede from the Union • Secretary of State during the Civil War • President of the Confederate States of America • Longest single battle of the American Civil War • Civil War battle that caused over 50,000 casualties • U.S. President who served the Confederacy during the Civil War
Civil War 2025-05-12
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- a fight between nations
- the enemy forces surrounding a town or building forcing those to retreat
- the side of the civil war that supported slavery
- very important especially to ones health
- a large fight, usually with weapons
- the side of the civil war that did not support slavery
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- the troops stationed in a fortress
- a win
- when a territory leaves a united nation
- standing down from something
- the act of banishing something
- deaths
12 Clues: a win • deaths • a fight between nations • standing down from something • the act of banishing something • the troops stationed in a fortress • a large fight, usually with weapons • when a territory leaves a united nation • very important especially to ones health • the side of the civil war that supported slavery • the side of the civil war that did not support slavery • ...
September 18th, 1862 2021-11-18
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- the date of President Lincoln's declaration of war (non-numeric characters)
- The Southern general
- _____ Proclamation
- The location of the first formal act of the Civil War
- Thomas Jonathan Jackson's nickname
- The first month of the Civil War
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- _____ Surrender; Uylesses S. Grant's nickname
- "President" of the south
- The 16th President's political party
- Our most recent victory
- An offensive attitude of superiority; the South's driving force
11 Clues: _____ Proclamation • The Southern general • Our most recent victory • "President" of the south • The first month of the Civil War • Thomas Jonathan Jackson's nickname • The 16th President's political party • _____ Surrender; Uylesses S. Grant's nickname • The location of the first formal act of the Civil War • An offensive attitude of superiority; the South's driving force • ...
1st Semester Review *People* 2024-01-05
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- Main author of the Constitution
- Author of the Declaration of Independence
- Believed only the rich and educated should rule
- First president of the United States
- First and only president of the Confederacy
- First president to be impeached
- General of the Confederacy
- President who first became famous as a general in the War of 1812
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- His crew successfully circumnavigated the world
- Created the first lasting settlement in the Americas
- Lincoln’s assassin
- Slave who sued his owner for his freedom
- Part of the famous duo who led the Corps of Discovery (_____ and Clark)
- Leader of Jamestown colony
- Led a raid on a federal arsenal and became a hero to the South
- President during the Civil War
- First known European to discover the Americas
- Civil War hero, presidential zero
18 Clues: Lincoln’s assassin • Leader of Jamestown colony • General of the Confederacy • President during the Civil War • Main author of the Constitution • First president to be impeached • Civil War hero, presidential zero • First president of the United States • Slave who sued his owner for his freedom • Author of the Declaration of Independence • ...
US HISTORY RECONSTRUCTION 2022-04-13
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- granted citizenship and equal civil and legal rights to African Americans and enslaved people who had been emancipated after the American Civil War
- used to describe opportunistic Northerners who came to the Southern states after the American Civil War
- created a framework for Reconstruction and the re-admittance of the Confederate states to the Union
- a system where the landlord/planter allows a tenant to use the land in exchange for a share of the crop
- referred to white Southerners who supported Reconstruction
- restricted black people's right to own property, conduct business, buy and lease land, and move freely through public spaces
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- was a period in American history following the American Civil War
- gave the right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude
- a group of politicians who formed a faction within the Republican party that lasted from the Civil War into the era of Reconstruction
- first African American member of the United States Senate
- the 17th president
- provided food, shelter, clothing, medical services, and land to displaced Southerners, including newly freed African Americans
- charge a holder of a public office with misconduct
13 Clues: the 17th president • charge a holder of a public office with misconduct • first African American member of the United States Senate • referred to white Southerners who supported Reconstruction • was a period in American history following the American Civil War • created a framework for Reconstruction and the re-admittance of the Confederate states to the Union • ...
Civil War Project Appetizers 2023-01-04
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- ____ a negative word used during the civil war
- The 16th president
- ____ is grey
- a____wants to end slavery
- ____ is a large farm
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- ____ most common shoe worn during the civil war
- ___ another word for money/dollars
- ___ is blue
- a withdraw in political states
- Killed Lincoln
- _____ a type of weapon some times seen on wheels
- ____ a bag worn to hold supplies
- _____ is a type of warships
13 Clues: ___ is blue • ____ is grey • Killed Lincoln • The 16th president • ____ is a large farm • a____wants to end slavery • _____ is a type of warships • a withdraw in political states • ____ a bag worn to hold supplies • ___ another word for money/dollars • ____ a negative word used during the civil war • ____ most common shoe worn during the civil war • ...
2022 Nurses' Week Crossword Puzzle 2022-04-19
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- White House Nurse
- Vietnam Women's Memorial
- wrote Hospital Sketches
- Mental Health Interest
- First African America Nurse
- Soujourner Truth
- Red Cross
- Nurse Registry
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- WWI Battlefield Nurse
- Crimean War
- End Racial Prejudice in Nursing
- First Female Trained American Nurse
- First Nursing Theorist
- Chief of Army Nurse Corps
- Famous writer who became a nurse
- Founder of Army Nurse Corps
- Civil War Nurse
- Jamaican Crimean War Nurse
- Most Decorated Woman in US Military
19 Clues: Red Cross • Crimean War • Nurse Registry • Civil War Nurse • Soujourner Truth • White House Nurse • WWI Battlefield Nurse • First Nursing Theorist • Mental Health Interest • wrote Hospital Sketches • Vietnam Women's Memorial • Chief of Army Nurse Corps • Jamaican Crimean War Nurse • Founder of Army Nurse Corps • First African America Nurse • End Racial Prejudice in Nursing • ...
The Civil War 2021-09-10
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- A major defeat for the Union Army , resulting in heavy casualties; also where an important Confederate General was killed
- Union General responsible for their march to the sea
- A key battle in Mississippi where Union troops surrounded the city, effectively cutting off Confederate supplies and forcing their surrender
- The courthouse where the Confederacy officially surrendered to the Union
- Known as the bloodiest battle in the entire war, fighting took place in Maryland
- President of the United States
- The battle that make people realize the Civil War was going to be a long struggle
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- A military strategy where an army will surround an enemy position, cutting off their supplies
- President of the Confederate States of America
- Commander of the Confederate Army
- Nicknamed "Stonewall", this Confederate General was killed by friendly fire at the battle of Chancellorsville
- The first major battle of the Civil War. No casualties were reported, resulted in a Confederate Victory
- The Confederate States of America Capital located in Virginia
- A costly Confederate defeat in Pennsylvania that turned the tide of the Civil War
- A Union General who led the siege of Vicksburg
15 Clues: President of the United States • Commander of the Confederate Army • President of the Confederate States of America • A Union General who led the siege of Vicksburg • Union General responsible for their march to the sea • The Confederate States of America Capital located in Virginia • The courthouse where the Confederacy officially surrendered to the Union • ...
Civil War Crossword 2023-05-12
9 Clues: elected in 1860 • Confederate general • Equal protection clause • Born on January 21 1824 • 1st battle of the civil war • Amendment that abolished slavery • Bloodiest battle in the civil war • 3rd major battle of the civil war • All US citizens should have the right to vote
Civil war crossword 2022-05-24
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- A group of whites who killed black people because they didnt like them
- the name for the south during the civil war.
- Missouri becomes a slave state and main becomes a free state
- to get rid of for good
- the first black man to sue
- African americans who were treated horribly and forced to do extreme work
- 16th U.S. president
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- ristricted black peoples rights to own thing like property.
- a battle in kansas that was a turning point in the war
- one of the bloodiest battles in U.S. history
- make to make slvery illigal
- mini stories about slaves and slavery
- The name for the north during he civil war
- when the south broke apart from the union
- The war that ended slavery
15 Clues: 16th U.S. president • to get rid of for good • The war that ended slavery • the first black man to sue • make to make slvery illigal • mini stories about slaves and slavery • when the south broke apart from the union • The name for the north during he civil war • one of the bloodiest battles in U.S. history • the name for the south during the civil war. • ...
Civil war crossword 2022-05-24
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- a battle in kansas that was a turning point in the war
- when the south broke apart from the union
- the first black man to sue
- 16th U.S. president
- mini stories about slaves and slavery
- Missouri becomes a slave state and main becomes a free state
- The war that ended slavery
- The name for the north during he civil war
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- the name for the south during the civil war.
- make to make slvery illigal
- A group of whites who killed black people because they didnt like them
- ristricted black peoples rights to own thing like property.
- one of the bloodiest battles in U.S. history
- African americans who were treated horribly and forced to do extreme work
- to get rid of for good
15 Clues: 16th U.S. president • to get rid of for good • the first black man to sue • The war that ended slavery • make to make slvery illigal • mini stories about slaves and slavery • when the south broke apart from the union • The name for the north during he civil war • the name for the south during the civil war. • one of the bloodiest battles in U.S. history • ...
Francisco Franco 2025-11-27
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- What was a key feature of his reign in Spain?
- How many years was the Spanish Civil war?
- What political group did Franco join in order to increase his supporter base?
- What is Franco's first name?
- Where was Franco first posted?
- How did Franco die?
- Who did Spain sign a military alliance with in 1953?
- What did Franco declare Spain as in the beginning of the second World War?
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- What country did Franco try to join forces with in World War 2?
- How did Franco first try to achieve power?
- What ideology did Franco speak out against?
- What type of government did Franco have?
- What side of the civil war was Franco on?
- Who came to power after Franco?
- What event led to Franco taking power?
15 Clues: How did Franco die? • What is Franco's first name? • Where was Franco first posted? • Who came to power after Franco? • What event led to Franco taking power? • What type of government did Franco have? • How many years was the Spanish Civil war? • What side of the civil war was Franco on? • How did Franco first try to achieve power? • ...
Civil War Crossword 2023-05-12
9 Clues: elected in 1860 • Confederate general • Equal protection clause • Born on January 21 1824 • 1st battle of the civil war • Amendment that abolished slavery • Bloodiest battle in the civil war • 3rd major battle of the civil war • All US citizens should have the right to vote
