Civil War Crossword

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Across
  1. 5. Supreme Court case in which the court denied a slave his freedom and the right to sue
  2. 6. Sherman's march from Atlanta to Savannah in which his troops destroyed everything in their path
  3. 7. Battles of the Civil War fought in western states
  4. 8. Institution in which African-Americans were owned like property
  5. 10. Order issued on January 1st, 1863; freed all Confederate slaves
  6. 12. Federal law that re-ignited the slavery debate by allowing popular sovereignty to decide the issue of slavery in previously free Kansas
  7. 14. Battle fought in northern Georgia; Confederates won and Union forces retreated to Tennessee
  8. 16. The idea that states should be allowed to settle most matters themselves
  9. 18. Prison in Georgia where many Union prisoners died from disease and starvation
  10. 19. 16th president elected in 1860
Down
  1. 1. Military general for the Confederacy
  2. 2. Stated that while Georgia supported the compromise, it would mot hesitate to resist any effort by congress to outlaw slavery in the new territories
  3. 3. Bloodiest battle of the Civil War
  4. 4. Compromise reached in 1820 that admitted Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state
  5. 9. Ships that attempted to break through the Union blockade
  6. 11. General Sherman's campaign to take Atlanta because of its importance as a railroad hub
  7. 12. Battle in which southern troops tried to prevent Sherman from reaching Atlanta
  8. 13. Battles of the Civil War fought in eastern states
  9. 15. Bloodiest single day battle of the Civil War
  10. 17. Strategy in which Union ships lined the southern coast and did not let ships in or out