Civil War

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Across
  1. 2. On June 26, Lee attacked, launching a series of clashes that forced the Union army to retreat from near Richmond.
  2. 3. Were midwesterners that sympathized with the South and opposed abolition.
  3. 4. Is a constitutional protection against unlawful imprisonment.
  4. 5. Idea that Great Britain would support the Confederacy because it needed the South's raw cotton to supply its booming textile industry.
  5. 6. The freeing of slaves.
  6. 10. A volunteer who organized the collection of medicine and supplies for delivery to the battlefield.
  7. 12. Wedged between the North and the South, Deleware, Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri, slave states that did not join the Confederacy.
  8. 13. A federal outpost in Charleston, South Carolina, that was attacked by Confederate troops, beginning the Civil War.
  9. 15. Jackson's troops met Pope's Union forces on the battlefield in August in 1862, three day battle.
  10. 17. Consisted mostly of free African Americans that led a heroic charge on South Carolina's Fort Wagner.
  11. 18. Was the first major battle of the Civil War, and the Confederates' victory, also known as the first Battle of Manassas.
  12. 19. Where Lee surrendered to Grant, thus ending the Civil War.
Down
  1. 1. The order to free the Confederate slaves.
  2. 7. Developed a two-part strategy, destory the South's economy with a naval blockade of southern ports and gain control of the Mississippi River to divide the South.
  3. 8. A series of battles designed to capture the Confederate capital at Richmond, Virginia.
  4. 9. The Union army gained greater control of the Mississippi River valley.
  5. 11. Speech Lincoln gave when he praised the bravery of Union soldiers and renewed his commitment to winning the Civil War.
  6. 12. A key battle that finally turned the tide against the Confederates.
  7. 14. Also known as the Battle of Sharpsburg, was the bloodiest single-day battle of the Civil War and of U.S. history.
  8. 16. Escaped slaves.