lincoln assasination
Across
- 5. - the fact or process of being set free from legal, social, or political restrictions; liberation.
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- 8. - the general who conducted military campaign of the American Civil War conducted through Georgia from November 15 until December 21, 1864, by William Tecumseh Sherman, major general of the Union Army.
- 9. - the group government of 11 Southern states that seceded from the Union in 1860–61, carrying on all the affairs of a separate government and conducting a major war until defeated in the spring of 1865.
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- 1. - the position of the turning point battle of the civil war, deadliest one-day battle in American military history, showed that the Union could stand against the Confederate army in the Eastern theater. It also gave President Abraham Lincoln the confidence to issue the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation at a moment of strength rather than desperation.
- 2. ironclad warship originally designed for use in shallow harbours and rivers to blockade the Confederate states in the American Civil War (1861–65).
- 3. - a national legislative body, especially that of the US. The US Congress, which meets at the Capitol in Washington, D.C., was established by the Constitution of 1787 and is composed of the Senate and the House of Representatives.
- 4. - was a steam frigate, best known as the hull upon which the ironclad warship CSS Virginia was constructed during the American Civil War. ... Merrimack was the first of six screw frigates (steam frigates powered by screw propellers) begun in 1854.
- 7. - Also called the North or the United States, the portion of the country that remained loyal to the Federal government during the Civil War.