Battles, People, and Ideas of the Civil War

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Across
  1. 2. Grant split the Confederacy in half; turning point in the West
  2. 5. African American awarded Medal of Honor
  3. 10. Main reason southern states left
  4. 12. Speech that freed slaves in confederate states
  5. 14. Dedicated a battlefield as a national cemetery
  6. 15. Assassinated Lincoln at Ford’s Theatre
  7. 17. Fought to keep America together
  8. 20. The union marched and burned everything they passed
  9. 21. Founded the North Star, an antislavery newspaper
  10. 23. Where Lee surrendered to Grant
  11. 25. Fought to leave the Union
Down
  1. 1. Lincoln’s Vice President and helper in rebuilding America after the Civil War
  2. 3. General of the Union army
  3. 4. Bloodiest single day of the Civil War; ended in a draw
  4. 6. 16th president
  5. 7. Lee went on the offensive; turning point in the East
  6. 8. Chilean immigrant awarded Medal of Honor
  7. 9. War where a country fights against itself
  8. 11. Thought to have started the Civil War with her book
  9. 13. The idea of recreating America from the ground up again; radical or moderate
  10. 16. First battle of the Civil War
  11. 18. Died from complications after having his arm amputated
  12. 19. President of the confederate states
  13. 22. General of the Confederate army
  14. 24. The people the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendment was created for