Civil War Era

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Across
  1. 2. Union's war strategy to defeat the South using blockades
  2. 4. Confederate economic problem during the war that made its money practically worthless
  3. 8. person who wanted emancipation for slaves at once
  4. 9. Confederate general from Virginia who was the commander of the army
  5. 12. first federal fort the South attacked
  6. 13. leader of the Confederacy
  7. 17. nurse during the war who founded the American Red Cross
  8. 18. place where Lee surrendered to Grant
  9. 22. Northern Democratic candidate of 1860
  10. 26. first major battle in which the South's win shocked the North
  11. 27. black abolitionist who published the North Star
  12. 29. Constitutional Amendment prohibiting slavery
  13. 30. name for military draft
  14. 31. Republican president who won the election of 1860
  15. 32. name of General Sherman's destruction of Atlanta to the sea
Down
  1. 1. woman who helped slaves escape using the Underground Railroad
  2. 3. person against slavery
  3. 5. battle that the North won, turning the tide in the war
  4. 6. Southern farmer who owned a little land and few slaves
  5. 7. name for slave states that fought for the Union
  6. 10. belief that blacks couldn't care for themselves with whites' guidance
  7. 11. abolitionist who published the Liberator newspaper
  8. 14. last attempt by Southern leaders to negotiate before the war
  9. 15. antislavery novel that played on people's sympathies
  10. 16. Constitutional Union Party candidate during 1860 election
  11. 19. people who criticized Lincoln for destroying the South during the war
  12. 20. writer of Uncle Tom's Cabin
  13. 21. name of Confederate general who was successful in the early parts of the war
  14. 23. law about escaped slaves that many abolitionists refused to follow
  15. 24. organization to help blacks find work, shelter, and education
  16. 25. when businesses charged the government extra for war products
  17. 28. Southern Democratic candidate of 1860