The Civil War Jason Sablan
Across
- 4. the first major battle in the American Civil War to take place on Northern soil. It was the bloodiest single-day battle in American history, with almost 23,000 casualties. After this "win" for the North, Lincoln announced the Emancipation Proclamation
- 7. This was the culmination of one of the most brilliant military campaigns of the war.
- 10. an American general and the eighteenth President of the United States (1869-1877). He achieved international fame as the leading Union general in the American Civil War.
- 12. the side of Virginia that fought with the union
- 14. the right not to be held in prison without first being charged with a specific crime
- 15. the action of leading a group of people or an organization.
- 17. (1863) freed all slaves living in the Confederate States
- 18. drafting of civilians to serve in the army
- 19. march to the sea
Down
- 1. withdraw formally from membership in a federal union, an alliance, or a political or religious organization.
- 2. a building or group of buildings where goods are manufactured or assembled chiefly by machine.
- 3. Speech given by Abraham Lincoln which captured the spirit of liberty and morality ideally held by citizens of a democracy. That ideal was threatened by the Civil War.
- 5. the first and only President of the Confederate States of America, was a planter, politician and soldier born in Kentucky and raised in Mississippi.
- 6. 16th president issuing the Emancipation Proclamation
- 8. losers
- 9. Federal fort in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina; the confederate attack on the fort marked the start of the Civil War
- 11. three-part union strategy to win the Civil War
- 13. Lee surrenders here, but Grant offers the Confederacy good surrender terms to try to reunify the country.
- 16. this general took command of the confederate army