The Civil War: 10 Things You Should Know

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Across
  1. 5. First Battle of the Civil War
  2. 9. Commander of the Union army
  3. 11. Far more men died of ________ than in battle
  4. 13. Movement that began in the 1950s and 60s to overturn racist laws that were created after the Civil War
  5. 16. State that Robert E Lee swore loyalty to
  6. 18. legal age to enter the army
  7. 19. Capital of the Confederacy
  8. 21. First state to secede from the Union
  9. 22. the period after the Civil War when the federal government worked to reintegrate Southern states
  10. 23. Amendment that abolished slavery
  11. 25. State that Jefferson Davis represented in the Senate before the war
Down
  1. 1. Elected president in 1860 which caused the South to Secede
  2. 2. 11 southern states that seceded from the Union
  3. 3. Southerners who wanted their states to withdraw from the U.S.
  4. 4. The single bloodiest day (battle) in U.S. history
  5. 6. technology that helped armies transport supplies to troop
  6. 7. breeding grounds for infection and disease
  7. 8. Smuggled information to Union commanders in hollowed-out eggs
  8. 10. Where Lee surrendered to Grant
  9. 12. antislavery leader who argued that the war must confront the issue of slavery
  10. 14. technology that helped to carry news of battles quickly
  11. 15. President of the Confederacy
  12. 17. Commander of the Confederate Army
  13. 20. Cause for many blisters of the soldiers - both the left and right sides were made the same
  14. 24. The goal of Lincoln was to preserve the ________.