Civil War Review

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Across
  1. 2. a term commonly used in the US military during the American Civil War to describe a new status for certain people who escaped slavery
  2. 3. opening the Civil War
  3. 8. is a town in Virginia, United States
  4. 11. boosted morale in the North and insured the reelection of President Abraham Lincoln
  5. 14. the first major battle of the American Civil War
  6. 17. the United States grappled with the challenges of reintegrating into the Union the states
  7. 20. final major military action in the American Civil War
  8. 21. the deadliest one-day battle in American military history
  9. 22. man holding and cultivating a small landed estate; a freeholder.
Down
  1. 1. a presidential proclamation and executive order issued by United States President Abraham Lincoln
  2. 4. a military campaign of the American Civil War conducted through Georgia from November 15 until December 21, 1864
  3. 5. fought on June 27, 1864, during the Atlanta Campaign of the American Civil War.
  4. 6. military strategy proposed by Union General Winfield Scott early in the American Civil War
  5. 7. the resistance to enslavement through escape and flight
  6. 9. Plunderers and militant abolitionists
  7. 10. political policy of promoting or protecting the interests of "native-born"
  8. 12. one of the largest and deadliest battles of the Civil War.
  9. 13. restricted black people's right to own property, conduct business, buy and lease land, and move freely through public spaces
  10. 15. also known as the Battle of Pittsburg Landing, allowed Union troops to penetrate the Confederate interior
  11. 16. the British three men and the other ten were wounded while the Patriots lost eighty-three men and four hundred and eighty-three were captured.
  12. 18. marked the turning point of the Civil War
  13. 19. the largest auction of enslaved people in U.S. history