Unit 7 Important People, Places, and Events

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Across
  1. 3. Last name of the 18th president of the United States; Union General during the Civil War
  2. 6. Last battle of the Civil War fought in Texas
  3. 8. Last name of the president during the Civil War; saved the union
  4. 9. Civil War battle; Confederate victory in which Davis' Guards repulsed an invasion of Union gunboats
  5. 10. Last name of the person who killed Abraham Lincoln
  6. 12. Civil War battle where the Confederates recaptured the city from Union control
  7. 13. Date celebrated as the anniversary of Emancipation Day for enslaved people in Texas
  8. 15. A machine that removed seeds from cotton fibers; created by Eli Whitney in 1793
Down
  1. 1. Civil War plan created by Winfield Scott, called for the blockade of the southern coast
  2. 2. ____________ Republicans- a group that believed the south should be punished harshly after the Civil War
  3. 4. Last name of the 17th President of the United States; became president after Lincoln was killed
  4. 5. Civil War Battle where Union troops captured the city and cut off the supply route Texans were using
  5. 7. the election of eighteen ___________, number of southern states secede due to the results
  6. 10. Freedmen's ____________ Agency set up to aid former slaves in adjusting themselves to freedom
  7. 11. ______________ States of America; A republic formed and composed out of eleven southern states that seceded from the union
  8. 14. Proclamation made by Abraham Lincoln, declared all slaves in the Confederate States would be free