Civil war crossword

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  1. 4. where Lee surrendered to Grant, thus ending the Civil War.
  2. 6. the order to free the Confederate slaves.
  3. 9. or the Second Battle of Manassas.
  4. 10. slave states that did not join the Confederacy.
  5. 11. also known as the Battle of Sharpsburg, was the bloodiest single-day battle of the Civil War—and of U.S. history.
  6. 12. the Union army gained greater control of the Mississippi River valley.
  7. 14. starved the city into surrender
  8. 17. a unit that consisted mostly of free African Americans.
  9. 18. destroying civilian and economic resources. Sherman believed that total war would ruin the South’s economy and its ability to fight.
  10. 19. For one mile the Confederates marched slowly up toward Cemetery Ridge.
  11. 20. his nickname was "stone wall"
  12. 22. President Lincoln gave a speech called
  13. 24. commanded the largest unit.
  14. 26. A graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, had served in the Mexican War and had led federal troops at Harpers Ferry.
  15. 27. escaped slaves.
  16. 28. it forced the Union army to retreat from near Richmond.
  17. 29. This was the idea that Great Britain would support the Confederacy because it needed the South’s raw cotton to supply its booming textile industry.
  18. 30. is a constitutional protection against unlawful imprisonment.
  19. 31. a series of battles designed to capture the Confederate capital at Richmond, Virginia.
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  1. 1. a key battle that finally turned the tide against the Confederates. The battle
  2. 2. ships heavily armored with iron.
  3. 3. approached the two forts that guarded the entrance to New Orleans from the Gulf of Mexico. Unable to destroy the forts, Farragut decided to race past them.
  4. 5. were midwesterners who sympathized with the South and opposed abolition.
  5. 7. carried out the Union plan to destroy southern railroads and industries.
  6. 8. developed a two-part strategy: (1) destroy the South’s economy with a naval blockade of southern ports; (2) gain control of the Mississippi River to divide the South.
  7. 13. the first major battle of the Civil War and the Confederates’victory.
  8. 15. He wanted to be on the attack. As a commander of forces in the Union’s western campaign, he would get his wish.
  9. 16. organized the collection of medicine and supplies for delivery to the battlefield.
  10. 21. a federal outpost in Charleston, South Carolina, that was attacked by
  11. 23. the freeing of slaves
  12. 25. The general assembled a highly disciplined force of 100,000 soldiers called the Army of the Potomac.