Civil War Key Terms

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Across
  1. 2. midwesterners who thought that the war was unnecessary and did not want abolition
  2. 4. Complete end of slavery
  3. 6. ships heavily armored with iron
  4. 7. Developed a two-part strategy to destroy the South’s economy and capture the Mississippi River
  5. 8. Stories that were part of oral tradition and usually included animals with human characteristics
  6. 12. a graduate of Westpoint was the general of the Confederacy
  7. 14. organized the shipping of medicine to the battlefields
  8. 15. commanded the largest unit in the south of over 15,000 men
  9. 17. asked to lead defensive maneuvers after Mcclellan was fired he took command of the Union Army
  10. 19. Large-scale farmers who owned more than 20 slaves
  11. 20. Crop brokers who managed the cotton trade farmers sold their cotton to merchants who then made a deal with them
  12. 21. Men that farmers and planters hired to watch over and direct how slaves worked
  13. 22. gave the gettysburg address
Down
  1. 1. Owners of small farms who were mostly white people who immigrated and owned few to no slaves at all
  2. 3. Folk songs that mixed with African and European music and played in a religious way
  3. 5. trained in high discipline and was the general of the Union Army
  4. 9. the freeing of slaves
  5. 10. attacked two forts in New Orleans with warships blending in with the environment
  6. 11. The favoring of the interests of one race over the other races and religions
  7. 13. escaped slaves who had the right to join the army
  8. 16. the first woman to be a doctor in the war
  9. 18. To formally withdraw from the union