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- 4. Legal buying and selling of Africans and African Americans as human chattel
- 6. President during the Civil War, known as the Great Emancipator
- 7. Site of two battles where the first shots of the war were fired in Charleston, South Carolina
- 11. Slave states that did not join the Confederacy
- 12. Speech delivered by President Lincoln in Pennsylvania
- 15. The post-war era in which Confederate States were brought back into the union
- 16. To do away with
- 17. The leaving of the union by Confederate States
- 19. A military attack or blockade of a city
- 21. An Act that allowed Kansas and Nebraska to choose whether they would allow slavery
- 22. Compulsory enrollment in the army
- 26. Land where battles are fought
- 28. A state where slavery is illegal
- 29. Assassinated Abraham Lincoln following the Civil War
- 30. The last battle of the American Civil War
Down
- 1. Executive order that freed slaves in the United States
- 2. A kind of conflict rising in the 1800s involving large conscripted armies
- 3. The seceding slave-states during the Civil War
- 5. The freeing of the slaves
- 8. Commander of the Confederate States Army
- 9. The states of Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania, and Washington D.C., as well as coastal seaports of North Carolina
- 10. Soldiers of the Confederacy
- 13. Famous battle fought in Tennessee
- 14. Happened at Appomattox Courthouse and ended the war
- 18. The bloodiest single-day battle in American history
- 20. Federal army during the Civil War that fought against the Confederacy
- 23. Large farms, often specializing in cotton or tobacco, usually worked by African slaves
- 24. To release from slavery
- 25. A person who performs events from history, particularly wars and battles
- 27. Prominent Union Army general and later U.S. president