The Civil War (Chap. 15)
Across
- 3. Military action that prevents traffic from coming into an area or leaving it.
- 4. military term for persons killed, wounded or missing in action.
- 6. The act of "freeing" an enslaved person. The _____ Proclamation.
- 8. Not favoring either side in the Civil War.
- 10. Warships covered with protective iron plates.
- 11. Where the military is in charge and citizens' rights are suspended.
- 15. Some soldiers in the Civil War were as young as _____.
- 16. Nickname for Confederate General Thomas Jackson
- 19. Constitutional protection against unlawful imprisonment.
Down
- 1. First levied in 1861 to help pay the costs of fighting the war.
- 2. This state was created in 1863 from counties that refused to secede from the Union.
- 5. An attempt to capture a place by surrounding it with military forces and cutting it off until the people inside surrender.
- 7. Slave states that did NOT secede from the Union.
- 9. Favored by General William T. Sherman; all-out attacks aimed at destroying an enemy's army, its resources, and its people's will to fight.
- 12. Location where, on April 9, 1863, Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union General Ulysses S. Grant.
- 13. Location of a major battle in June 1863, also location of the _____ Address in November 1863 by President Abraham Lincoln.
- 14. Southern state whose governor said his state "will not furnish a single man" to fight.
- 17. One of the bloodiest engagements of the Civil War was the Battle of _______
- 18. Important railroad center in Mississippi.