Chapter 7

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Across
  1. 4. a piece of U.S. paper money first issued by the North during the Civil War.
  2. 7. to formally charge a public official with misconduct in office
  3. 9. persons freed from slavery
  4. 11. Act that created a national currency and allowed the government to issue paper money.
  5. 12. requiring people to enter military service.
  6. 16. A Union military strategy to “strangle” the Confederacy by blockading its ports and cutting the South in two by controlling the Mississippi.
  7. 17. Amendment that banned slavery in the United States
  8. 18. a former senior officer in the United States Army, who resigned his position and offered his services to the Confederacy. Lee became a Confederate general and overall commander of the Confederate army.
  9. 19. the act of granting a pardon to a large group of people
  10. 22. Union general during the Civil War who was best known for his March to the Sea and total war military tactics.
  11. 23. searching or raiding for food
  12. 26. indirectly vetoing a bill by letting a session of Congress expire without signing the bill
  13. 28. a soldier captured by the enemy in battle.
  14. 31. a military assault ordered by General Robert E. Lee at the Battle of Gettysburg, attempting to break through the Union lines and achieve a decisive victory in the north.
  15. 32. Nickname of Thomas Jackson, one of the Confederacy’s most effective commanders.
  16. 33. a hard biscuit made of wheat powder.
  17. 34. the act of wearing down by constant harassment or attack.
  18. 35. a legal order for an inquiry to determine whether a person has been lawfully imprisoned.
  19. 36. This amendment granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States and declared that no state could deprive any person of life, liberty, or property “without due process of law.” Also, it declared that no state could deny any person “equal protection of the laws.”
Down
  1. 1. one faction of the Democratic party that strongly supported a war to restore the Union, but opposed ending slavery.
  2. 2. a decree freeing all enslaved persons in states still in rebellion after January 1, 1863.
  3. 3. The US Navy intercepted a British ship carrying Confederate diplomats who were seeking recognition of the Confederate States. The act threatened British neutrality and risked bringing them into the war.
  4. 5. ship that runs through a blockade, usually to smuggle goods through a protected area.
  5. 6. in the 1860s, a term used for a water mine
  6. 8. laws passed in the South just after the War aimed at controlling freedmen and enabling plantation owners to exploit African American workers.
  7. 10. Union general who became the commander of the Union Army.
  8. 13. Peace Democrats - another faction of northern Democrats who opposed the war and called for the reunion of the states by negotiation.
  9. 14. a military blockade of a city or fortified place to force it to surrender
  10. 15. the reorganization and rebuilding of the former Confederate states after the Civil War.
  11. 20. authorization to act given to a representative
  12. 21. Admiral of the US Navy who took command of the Union force in an attempt to seize New Orleans.
  13. 24. money given as a reward, as to encourage enlistment in the army.
  14. 25. A speech delivered by President Abraham Lincoln following the Battle of Gettysburg in dedication of part of the battlefield as a cemetery. It is one of the most famous speeches in American history.
  15. 27. The site of one of the last and most significant battles of the Civil War. It was the last military engagement led by Robert E. Lee’s army before surrendering to Grant’s Army of the Potomac.
  16. 29. Amendment declaring that the right to vote “shall not be denied … on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude”
  17. 30. In March 1865, Congress established the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Land with the task of feeding and clothing war refugees in the South using surplus army supplies. The Bureau also assisted formerly enslaved people in finding employment on plantations.