Civil War Crossword

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  1. 4. a skilled Confederate general from Virginia who dies after being accidentally shot by Confederate soldiers
  2. 7. President of the Confederate States of America
  3. 11. turning point of the Civil War, Union forces repel Lee's invasion of the North in this small town in southern Pennsylvania, after gaining control of the high ground of the battlefield
  4. 12. Confederate commander of the Army of Northern Virginia, offered command of Union forces at the beginning of the war, but chose not to fight against Virginia, urged Southerners to accept defeat at the end of the war and reunite as Americans
  5. 14. the first major battle of the Civil War
  6. 15. general of the Union forces who defeated Robert E. Lee's confederate army
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  1. 1. consisted of slave states that remained in the Union
  2. 2. by taking this city in southern Mississippi, the Union gained control of the Mississippi River and divided the Confederacy
  3. 3. The BLANK consisted of 11 states that supported states' rights and the practice of slavery and seceded from the United States
  4. 5. The BLANK consisted of 23 states located mostly to the north and west that opposed secession from the United States
  5. 6. new state formed from the western counties of Virginia that refused to secede from the Union
  6. 8. Lee's surrender to Grant here in 1865, marking the end of the Civil War
  7. 9. President of the United States who opposed the spread of slavery and was determined to preserve the Union, by force is necessary
  8. 10. to withdraw or separate from a political state
  9. 13. First shots fired to start the Civil War