Civil War

2. White leading commander of the first black regiment - 54th Massachusetts
5. Place in Virginia where John Brown led a raid on a federal arsenal.
9. Republican President during the Civil War, assasinated, at first said that the war wasn't about slavery but later changed his mind
10. one of the deadliest battles of the Civil War; the Union won this battle and it was a turning point in the war
12. A northern American politician who developed the American System as well as negotiated numerous compromises.

1. The southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861.
3. An American statesman and politician who served as President of the Confederate States of America for its entire history from 1861 to 1865
4. General of the Union Army; fired by Lincoln for being too cautious
6. the Confederates' last major port on the Gulf of Mexico. The Union commander, David Farragut, captured Mobile Bay for the Union
7. April 12, 1861: The Confederate attack on this federal fort in Charleston, South Carolina marked the start of the Civil War.
8. The effort by the North to keep ships from entering or leaving Southern ports.
11. battle that took place near Pittsburg Landing in Tennessee; the Union won the battle under the leadership of General Ulysses S. Grant