Across
- 3. first major battle of the war
- 5. Government in which people rule by their own consent
- 9. ruled that slaves are not people but property
- 13. novel by Harriet Stowe that described slavery as brutal and immoral
- 14. destruction of even personal property
- 17. bloodiest battle
- 18. opposed to the bank of america
- 22. President of the confederacy
- 23. law requiring people to serve in the military
- 24. northern democrats who opposed abolition
- 25. cautious Northern general
- 26. north strength
Down
- 1. series of secret routes used by slaves to escape north
- 2. Invented the cotton gin
- 4. former minister who was killed as a martyr in opposition to slavery
- 6. Stonewall Jackson was killed in this battle
- 7. where the war began
- 8. Capital of Virginia
- 10. first state to secede from the union
- 11. south strength
- 12. last to fall of the Mississippi River
- 15. war started and ended on his property
- 16. ships covered with protective metal plates
- 19. attempt to capture railroad, barely a union victory
- 20. president of the union
- 21. city laid under a 9 month seige