Civil War Review

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  1. 4. The BLANK consisted of 23 states located mostly to the NORTH and west that opposed seceding from the United States. Abraham Lincoln was the President.
  2. 6. Confederate commander of the Army of Northern Virginia, offered command of Union forces at the beginning of the war, but chose not to fight against Virginia, urged Southerners to accept defeat at the end of the war and reunite as Americans
  3. 8. This siege/battle lasted 48 days and gave the Union full control of the Mississippi River which divided the Confederacy.
  4. 10. True or False: The Union utilized the railroad and industry during the War. It was one of their advantages.
  5. 12. former enslaved African American who promoted the Civil War by creating the United States Colored Troops
  6. 16. True or False: The Confederacy had weaker military leaders than the Union.
  7. 20. A general of the Union forces who defeated Robert E. Lee's confederate army
  8. 21. President of the United States who opposed the spread of slavery and was determined to preserve the Union, by force is necessary
Down
  1. 1. The BLANK consisted of 11 states in the SOUTH that supported states' rights and the practice of slavery. They seceded from the United States. Jefferson Davis was the President.
  2. 2. Who escaped to freedom on a Confederate ship, then became a sailor/naval captain for the Union?
  3. 3. THIS was a proclamation issued by Abraham Lincoln that made "freeing the slaves" the new focus of the Civil War; many freed African Americans joined the Union army
  4. 5. Where was the first conflict of the Civil War
  5. 7. Who was a civil war nurse that went on to start the American Red Cross? During the war, she was known as the Angel of the Battlefield.
  6. 9. What word means to withdraw or separate from?
  7. 11. What was the first state to secede from the Union?
  8. 13. The battle of BLANK is known as the TURNING POINT of the Civil War. Union forces repel Lee's invasion of the North in this small town in southern Pennsylvania, after gaining control of the high ground of the battlefield.
  9. 14. The nickname of a skilled Confederate general from Virginia who dies after being accidentally shot by Confederate soldiers
  10. 15. President of the Confederate States of America
  11. 17. The Civil War ended WHERE?
  12. 18. The BLANK states consisted of slave states that remained in the Union
  13. 19. The Battle of WHAT was the first major battle of the Civil War