Choiceboard Crossword

8. One of the last forts within seceding states to be under Federal control. First Civil War battle.
12. Amendment that made slavery illegal.
13. Robert Lee's best general who aided the Confederates in the Battle of Chancellorsville.
14. Amendment which have all male citizens suffrage.
16. Battle that allowed the Union to gain control of the Mississippi. They used control of the river to cut off Confederate supplies.
17. A highly dubious Supreme Court case which ruled that enslaved individuals & African Americans were not to be considered US citizens.

1. Union general who led US to victories in Shiloh, Vicksburg, and Chattanooga.
2. Codes which restricted the rights of black people in land-ownership, enterprising, and public travel.
3. Confederate general who commanded the Army of Northern Virginia.
4. An idea which suggests that the government should be based upon the will of the majority of the population.
5. President of the Confederacy during the Civil War.
6. An act which repealed the previous Missouri Compromise in favor of failed popular sovereignty.
7. Election won by Rutherford Hayes despite not winning the popular vote.
9. Deadly battle of the Civil War that was won by the Union after they gained the high ground.
10. Amendment that made former slaves citizens.
11. Union general who commanded the Army of Potomac.
15. Deadliest one-day battle in US history. Motivated the Emancipation Proclamation.