Unit 8 Vocabulary Crossword
Across
- 2. Military historians consider the battle Even so, the Union kept confederates confined and enabled President Lincol to release the Emancipation Proclamation on September 22, 1862
- 6. The union would use naval forces to strangle the South by blockading imports of military supplies and exporting cotton
- 8. The confederate surrender at this battle occurred just a day after the Gettysburg surrender
- 10. President of the Confederate states of America
- 12. A union naval officer that led various naval blockades
- 15. The confederate victory gave the South a surge of confidence and shocked many in the North, who realized the war would not be won as easily as they had hoped
- 17. issued on January 1st,
- 18. led virginias Confederate army upon its secession from the Union, became the commander of the entire confederate Army
Down
- 1. Lasting forever
- 3. a speech given by a president when they take office
- 4. This Union victory ended any hopes any hopes the Confederates had of blocking the Union advance into northern Mississippi
- 5. worked his way up the union ranks during the civil war. president lincoln elevated him to the rank of lieutenant general
- 7. The battle was a defeat for the Confederacy and halted the Confederate invasion of the North. This was the dealiest battle of the war, with over 50,000 casualties
- 9. a collection of souther states that seceded from the United States during the American Civil War
- 11. President of the Union during the civil war
- 13. the United States
- 14. Confederate, earned the nickname "stonewall" because he refused to back down
- 16. The state of lasting forever