Marisa´s Crossword

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Across
  1. 1. Mountainous region that broke away from Virginia in 1861 to from its own state after Virginia seceded from the union. Most of the residents from west Virginia were independent farmers and miners who did not own slaves and thus oppose the confederate cause.
  2. 6. Paper currency issued by the union treasury during the civil war. Inadequately supported by gold, greenbacks fluctuated in value throughout the war, reaching a low of 39 cents on the dollar.
  3. 8. Network of member banks that could issue currency against purchased government bonds. Created during the civil war to establish a national currency and stimulate the sale of war bonds
  4. 9. Unified Canadian government created by Britain to bolster Canadians against potential attacks or overturns from the United States.
  5. 10. Five slave states Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, Delaware, and West Virginia- that did not secede during the civil war. To keep the states in the union Abraham Lincoln insisted that the war was not about abolishing slavery but about protecting the union
  6. 12. Government agency founded with the help of Elizabeth Blackwell that trained nurses, collected medical supplies, and equipped hospitals in an effort to help the Union army. The commission helped professionalize nursing and gave many women the confidence and organizational skills to propel the women's movement in the postwar years.
  7. 16. A federal law that sold settlers 160 acres of land for about $30 if they lived on it for 5 years and improved it by, for instance, building a house on it. The act helped make land accessible to hundreds of thousands of westward-moving settlers.
  8. 17. British built and manned Confederate worship that raided Union shipping during the Civil War. One of many built by the British for the Confederacy, despite Union protests
Down
  1. 2. Uprising, Mostly of working-class Irish Americans, in protest of the draft. Rioters were particularly incensed by the ability of the rich to hire substitutes or purchase exemptions.
  2. 3. South Carolina Location where confederate forces fired the first shots of the civil war in April of 1861 after union forces attempted to provision the fort
  3. 4. Two well-armed Ironclad warships constructed for the Confederacy by a British firm. Seeking to avoid war with the United States, the British government purchased the two ships for the Royal Navy instead
  4. 5. Napoleon III was the first President of France from 1848 to 1852 and the Emperor of the French from 1852 to 1870. A nephew of Napoleon I, he was the last monarch to rule over France.
  5. 7. Union General George B. McClellan's failed effort to seize Richmond, the Confederate capital. Had McClellan taken Richmond and toppled the confederacy, slavery would have most likely survived in the south for some time.
  6. 11. First major battle of the civil war and a victory for the south, it dispelled northern illusions of a swift victory
  7. 13. Increased duties back up to 1846 levels to raise revenue for the civil war
  8. 14. Petition requiring law enforcement officers to present detained individuals before the court to examine the legality of the arrest. Protects individuals from arbitrary state action. Suspended by Lincoln during the civil war.
  9. 15. Diplomatic row that threatened to bring the British into the civil war on the side of the Confederacy, after a union warship stoped a British steamer and arrested two Confederate diplomats on board