American History

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Across
  1. 1. warships covered with protective plates
  2. 4. tax paid to state, federal, and locla government based on income earned over the past year
  3. 5. 3 day long battle, most famous battle
  4. 7. union general who did total war
  5. 8. invented the cotton gin
  6. 9. government in which people rule by their own consent
  7. 12. system of secret routes for escaping slaves
  8. 15. union general, fired 2 times by lincoln
  9. 17. large population, resources, railroads
  10. 19. misssouri, Kentucky, maryland, delaware
  11. 20. law that allowed voters in these states to allow slavery or not
  12. 23. 16th president doesn't want expansion of slavery
  13. 24. the war started and ended at his house
  14. 25. of the confederacy
Down
  1. 2. fighting on home turf, fighting for a purpose
  2. 3. first state to secede from the union
  3. 6. grant sieged the city from may 18 to july 4 1863
  4. 10. novel published by Harriet beecher stowe
  5. 11. abolished slavery
  6. 13. capital of Virginia
  7. 14. law requiring people of certain age to serve in the military
  8. 16. confederate general who opposed secession
  9. 18. former Presbyterian minister
  10. 21. bloodiest single day battle
  11. 22. provide free land out west for migration