Unit 8 Civil War

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Across
  1. 2. a war fought exclusively between armies in which only enemy soldiers and military infrastructure are targeted
  2. 3. to keep something in its original state
  3. 4. the Confederate surrender at Vicksburg occurred just a day after the Gettysburg surrender and crushed the Confederate hopes of receiving foreign recognition
  4. 6. the United States
  5. 8. led Virginias Confederate army upon its secession from the Union, became the commander of the entire Confederate Army
  6. 10. lasting forever
  7. 11. military historians consider the battle of Antietam a stalemate. even so, the union kept confederates confined and enable President Lincoln to release the emancipation proclamation on September 22, 1862
  8. 12. the Confederate victory gave the South a surge of confidence and shocked many in the North, who realized the war would not won as easily as the had hoped
  9. 13. worked his way up in the Union ranks during the Civil War. President Lincoln elevated Grant to the rank of lieutenant general, and named him general-in-chief of the Armies of the United States.. He would later serve as President
  10. 16. a speech given by a president when they take office
  11. 18. the Union would use naval forces to strangle the South by blockading imports of military supplies and exporting cotton
  12. 20. Missouri, Kentucky, West Virgina, Maryland and Delaware
Down
  1. 1. this union victory ended any hopes of the Confederates had of blocking the union advance into northern Mississippi
  2. 3. the state of lasting forever
  3. 5. a collection of southern states that seceded from the United States during the American Civil War
  4. 7. issued on January 1st, 1863, by President Abraham Lincoln that declared "that all persons held as enslaved people' within the rebellious states were free
  5. 9. Confederate, earned the nickname “Stonewall” because he refused to back down. He was shot by one of his soldiers accidentally and died several days later.
  6. 14. President of the Union during the Civil War
  7. 15. the battle was a defeat for the confederacy and halted the Confederate invasion of the North. This was the deadliest battle of the war, with over 50,000 casualties
  8. 17. President of the Confederate States of America
  9. 19. a strategy that included the systematic destruction of any property or supplies, including those belonging to civilians, that are essential to the enemy's ability to wage war