Unit 5 Part I

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Across
  1. 2. Bloodiest one day battle in American History. 23,000 Soldiers were killed after 12 hours of combat.
  2. 5. Presidency of the Confederate States of America.
  3. 9. People would vote to be a free/slave slave.
  4. 10. President during the Civil War, issued the Emancipation Proclamation that declared those slaves within the Confederacy forever free. Assassinated on April 14, 1865.
  5. 13. Turning point in the Civil War. Union victory that ends Robert E Lee's second campaign into the North. Civil War's bloodiest battle.
  6. 15. 1857 Supreme Court case that decided African slaves were not citizens under U.S. law, therefore could not bring forth a lawsuit. Also, ruled the Missouri Compromise as unconstitutional.
  7. 17. Union victory--cut the Confederacy in half and allowed for control of the Mississippi River (part of the Anaconda Plan)
  8. 20. America's fate to westward expand.
  9. 21. Confederate general who commanded Pickett's Charge on the third day at Gettysburg, considered himself personally responsible for the men lost, and ultimately presented the Confederate's surrender at Appomattox.
  10. 23. Law enacted in 1854 that established the idea of popular sovereignty in certain new territories
  11. 24. Created after the Mexican-American War--5 laws: 1.California would enter the U.S. as a free state; 2.New Mexico & Utah territories would allow popular sovereignty; 3.New Mexico would be created out of Texas territory; 4.Fugitive Slave Act; 5.slave trade was banned in Wash D.C.
  12. 25. April 1865--the town in VA where Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant, ending the Civil War
Down
  1. 1. Established a line at 36 30' keeping a free/slave states balance--Maine was admitted as a free state & Missouri was a slave state.
  2. 3. Executive order issued by Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, freeing the slaves in all regions behind Confederate lines.
  3. 4. Union forces commanded by Sherman used the tactic of "total war" to cause destruction through Georgia and the Carolinas--bringing the war nearly to an end.
  4. 6. Confederate general known for his strong counterattack at the first battle of Bull Run/Manassas (hint: where he got his nickname)
  5. 7. Violent act against a federal arsenal in 1859 which sparked further tension between the North and the South
  6. 8. April 12, 1861 when Confederate artillery opened fire on the federal fort located in Charleston Harbor--resulted in the beginning of the Civil War
  7. 11. 18th president of the United States- his election in 1868 showed how important the African American vote would be to the future of the Republican Party.
  8. 12. Conflict from 1846-1848 that started with a presidential lie and border dispute.
  9. 14. Delivered by Abraham Lincoln in November 1863 at the dedication of the first national military cemetery
  10. 16. Union general who caused much destruction through Georgia and the Carolinas
  11. 18. Lincoln & Davis suspended this right & jailed people without official notice of charges during the Civil War to keep order & lessen rebellions
  12. 19. Event in November of 1860 that directly led to southern secession and creation of the Confederacy.
  13. 22. President who instigated the beginning of the Mexican-American War.