Civil War Wrap-Up

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Across
  1. 3. most NC men were in the army, which caused who to have to work the farms and scrape together meals for families?
  2. 5. Union General
  3. 7. Union General William T. _______ led some 60,000 soldiers on a 285-mile march from Atlanta to Savannah, Georgia.
  4. 10. first battle fought on Northern soil
  5. 11. theory to not simply destroy military targets---but to break civilian morale and destroy anything that was in the way
  6. 13. "Proclamation" that declared that all slaves in the states currently engaged in rebellion against the Union “shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free.”
  7. 15. Southern President
  8. 16. this battle convinced the Lincoln administration and the North that the Civil War would be a long and costly affair
  9. 17. Confederate Army required every healthy male between 18 and 35 to spend 3 years in the army
  10. 19. Northern President
  11. 20. In which state did they surrender?
  12. 22. Most important fort Confederate fort; it covered a mile of coastline; located in Wilmington, NC
Down
  1. 1. Who provided more troops than any other state?
  2. 2. Civil War "Winner"
  3. 4. first battle of the Civil War
  4. 6. Confederate General
  5. 8. the government created a new tax called the _______ where farmers had to give up portions of their harvest to help supply the troops
  6. 9. Lincoln's speech; told world that the US would continue to fight, so that everyone could enjoy freedom and equality.
  7. 12. the purpose of Sherman’s March to the Sea was to frighten Georgia’s civilian population into _______ the Confederate cause.
  8. 14. NC’s first black regiment was known as the First North Carolina ______ Volunteers
  9. 18. ships made of iron armor; these were a Civil War invention; they had major advantages over wooden ships
  10. 21. Lincoln's assassination was completed by who?