Civil war vocabulary

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Across
  1. 2. Volume of money printed increases = Prices increase = loss of value of currency.
  2. 4. Presidential executive order issued by Abraham Lincoln that declared all slaves within the rebellious states are free.
  3. 7. famous speech made by Abraham Lincoln to honor the soldiers of both sides that died at Gettysburg/ showed dedication to republicanism, equal rights, liberty, and Union.
  4. 8. Freedom and independence.
  5. 9. the Unions plan to strangle the South economically and militarily by taking over the Mississippi River and blockading Southern ports.
  6. 10. the murder of a prominent person, often a political leader or ruler
Down
  1. 1. Union victory in the Mississippi River Valley that split the Confederacy from east to west.
  2. 3. turning point in the Civil War in which the Union defeated the Confederacy
  3. 5. time period after the civil war in which the US government readmitted the confederate states and tried to fix the south
  4. 6. Confederacy attacked a federal fort in South Carolina officially starting the Civil War in 1861