Civil War Crossword
Across
- 2. President of the Confederate States of America
- 4. The commanding general of the Confederacy's Army of Northern Virginia.
- 5. This battle led to the Emancipation Proclamation.
- 6. The President of the United States of America.
- 7. Includes California being admitted as a free state and, the Fugitive Slave Act
- 9. A man who dug in and held their position on a hill overlooking Bull Run Creek until reinforcements could arrive and organize a counter-attack.
- 11. People hold the final authority in all matters of government
- 12. Lincoln's primary goal at the beginning of the war
- 14. Battle that started the war.
- 16. Declared that all slaves in the rebellious Confederate states would be free
- 17. The speech delivered by Abraham Lincoln at the dedication of a national cemetery on the site of the Battle of Gettysburg.
- 18. An act that stated Kansas and Nebraska would use popular sovereignty to decide what to do about slavery.
- 19. Union army's blockade of Vicksburg, Mississippi, that led the city to surrender during the Civil War
Down
- 1. Turning point of the War
- 3. A slave state that remained in the Union during the Civil War
- 5. Choke the South out of its resources through blockades of bodies of water
- 8. Compromise set where Missouri became a slave state and Maine a free state
- 10. Withdraw from an organization or communion
- 13. Nurse during the Civil War; started the American Red Cross
- 15. Southern states that seceded from the United States