Chapter 11 History

3. Top Confederate general who surrendered to Grant at Appomattox.
5. Constitutional amendment that abolished slavery in the United States.
9. Site of a massacre of Black Union troops by Confederate forces.
10. Lincoln’s order that freed enslaved people in Confederate states.
13. Presidential election won by Lincoln during the Civil War.
15. Bloodiest single-day battle in American history, leading to the Emancipation Proclamation.
17. Confederate general known for standing firm at the First Battle of Bull Run.
20. First major battle of the Civil War, showing both sides were unprepared.
23. President of the Confederate States during the Civil War.
24. Union general criticized for being too cautious and slow to act.
25. Union general known for his “March to the Sea” through Georgia.
26. Forced military service, also known as the draft, used by both the North and South.

1. Railroad tracks destroyed and twisted by Union troops to cripple the South.
2. Actor who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln.
4. Famous speech by Lincoln honoring fallen soldiers and redefining the war’s purpose.
6. Infamous Confederate prison known for its harsh and deadly conditions.
7. Cone-shaped bullet that caused severe battlefield injuries during the war.
8. Confederate general whose failed charge at Gettysburg ended the battle.
11. Bloody battle in Tennessee that showed the war would be long and deadly.
12. Where the first shots of the Civil War were fired in 1861.
14. Photographer who documented the Civil War with battlefield images.
16. Union strategy to blockade Southern ports and control the Mississippi River.
18. President who preserved the Union and ended slavery.
19. Organization founded to provide emergency medical care during wartime.
21. Nurse who founded the American Red Cross after serving on Civil War battlefields.
22. Tax on earnings first used by the U.S. government to fund the Civil War.
24. Union general who led the North to victory and later became president.