Key Figures and Events of the Civil War

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Across
  1. 3. famous battlefield in Pennsylvania
  2. 6. first event of the Civil War
  3. 12. the name of Robert Fulton's steamboat
  4. 13. the social separation of groups of people, especially by race
  5. 14. president during the Civil War
  6. 15. the dramatic change in economies brought about by the use of machines to do the work
  7. 16. a tax on earnings
  8. 17. general of the Union Army
  9. 18. burned his way across the South
  10. 19. to withdraw
  11. 22. last spike of the transcontinental railroad
  12. 23. law that states that captured slaves must be returned to their owners
  13. 24. California is admitted as a free state
  14. 28. general of the Confederate Army
  15. 31. speech given by Lincoln to commemorate the lives lost at the Battle of Gettysburg
  16. 32. nickname for cotton
  17. 35. president of the Confederacy
  18. 37. unequal treatment based on a person's race, gender, religion, place of birth, or other arbitrary characteristic
  19. 39. allowed citizens to determine slave status and caused riots and violence among people
  20. 41. an extreme abolitionist that led the rebellion at Harper's Ferry
  21. 43. slave who was determined property by the Supreme Court
  22. 44. first state to secede the Union
  23. 45. color of the Union Army uniforms
  24. 46. place where Lee surrendered and the Civil War ended
  25. 47. a hand-operated machine that cleans seeds and other unwanted material from cotton
  26. 48. popular book written to portray the moral issues of slavery
  27. 50. route for slaves to escape to the North
  28. 51. a large area of privately owned land where crops were grown through the labor of workers, usually slaves, who lived on the land
Down
  1. 1. two iron clad ships that engaged in battle and put an end to wooden boats used by the Navy
  2. 2. soldiers on horseback
  3. 4. first black regiment in the army
  4. 5. another nickname for cotton
  5. 7. a person who moves from one country to another
  6. 8. bloodiest battle of the Civil War
  7. 9. what states and territories did to keep peace prior to the Civil War
  8. 10. someone that wanted to end slavery
  9. 11. freed all the slaves in confederate territory
  10. 20. color of the Confederate Army uniforms
  11. 21. Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, Missouri
  12. 25. the feeling of being weighed down or held back by severe and unfair force
  13. 26. Missouri is admitted as a slave state while Maine is admitted as a free state
  14. 27. warships covered in iron
  15. 29. banned slavery in the United States
  16. 30. the act of freeing people from slavery
  17. 33. a system for requiring citizens to join their country's armed forces
  18. 34. a new type of ammunition with a hollow base
  19. 36. man responsible for the assassination of Lincoln
  20. 38. nickname for confederate soldiers
  21. 40. the North's plan to smother the South's economy
  22. 42. famous conductor on the underground railroad
  23. 49. a person who favors an agricultural way of life