Civil War Era

4. the first and only president of the Confederate States of America, was a Southern planter, Democratic politician and hero of the Mexican-American War who represented Mississippi in the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate
5. a Confederate general who led the South’s attempt at secession
6. 60,000 soldiers on a 285-mile march from Atlanta to Savannah, Georgia,to frighten Georgia’s civilian population into abandoning the Confederate cause
9. Lincoln would be speaking not only as the new president but also as the leader of a nation in crisis.
10. the first battle of the civil war
11. a speech that U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivered during the American Civil War at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery
13. a Union general,an American soldier,served as a general in the Union Army
15. a territorial organic act that created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska
16. one of two major political parties in the United States
19. an American abolitionist and social activist.
21. day lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth
22. a decade-long fight for freedom by a Black enslaved man
23. one of the South’s most successful generals
24. Union captured Mississippi River dividing the Confederacy in half
25. 16th president of the United States

1. the bloodiest battle ever fought on American soil
2. Confederacy surrenders to Union,ending civil war
3. the first major opposed river crossing,one of the largest and deadliest battle
7. an American lawyer, planter, general, and statesman who served as the seventh president of the United States
8. the man who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln
12. more factories = more weapons
14. Lincoln freed slaves in Confederacy
17. author of the Declaration of Independence and the 3rd U.S. president
18. the 18th president of the United States
20. the deadliest one-day battle in all of American military history.