Chapter 15 Crossword Quiz

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Across
  1. 1. a 19th-century warship with armor plating.
  2. 4. a federal outpost in Charleston, South Carolina, that was attacked by the Confederates in April 1861, sparking the Civil War
  3. 6. the deciding battle in the Civil War campaign waged between Union and Confederate armies in northern Virginia in 1862
  4. 9. final major military action in the Vicksburg Campaign of the American Civil War.
  5. 10. a major battle in the Western Theater of the American Civil War, fought April 6-7, 1862, in southwestern Tennessee.
Down
  1. 2. a series of six major battles over the seven days from June 25 to July 1, 1862, near Richmond, Virginia, during the American Civil War.
  2. 3. a decisive engagement in the American Civil War (1861–65) that halted the Confederate advance on Maryland for the purpose of gaining military supplies.
  3. 5. (1861) the first major battle of the Civil War, resulting in a Confederate victory; showed that the Civil War would not be won easily
  4. 7. 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
  5. 8. Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri; slave states that lay between the North and the South and did not join the Confederacy during the Civil War