(11/6) The Civil War - Lessons 1-3

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Across
  1. 3. True/False: The Civil War for the Union started as an effort to preserve the Union
  2. 6. North v South - Majority of the economy was industrial; 90% of the nation's factories
  3. 9. North v South - Had a strong military tradition; 7 of 8 military academies were located here
  4. 11. THIS decree by President Lincoln stated that all slaves in states of open rebellion would be freed
  5. 13. During Sherman's March to the Sea, Union forces marched through Georgia "looting and plundering" what was in their path
  6. 15. The Civil War is considered the first "_________" war; new bullets, trenches, and tactics revolutionized the way war was fought
  7. 16. The firing on this fort by Confederate soldiers started the Civil war
  8. 17. The __________ Plan was the Union's plan to surround and divide the South, to squeeze it of its resources/ability to fight
Down
  1. 1. Devoting one's resources, economy, and society toward the war effort
  2. 2. The tactic Ulysses S. Grant used on the city of Vicksburg, by blockading and surrounding it, forcing it to surrender
  3. 4. Bloodiest one-day battle in US history
  4. 5. North v South - Primarily agricultural economy
  5. 7. As the war progressed, the Civil War for the Union became an effort to end slavery
  6. 8. North v South - Had a strong naval tradition
  7. 10. This battle, won by the Union, put Robert E Lee and the Confederacy on the defensive for the remainder of the war
  8. 12. Courthouse in which Robert E Lee surrendered to Ulysses S Grant
  9. 14. wearing down of one side through exhaustion of soldiers and resources