civil war

Edit Answers
123456789
Across
  1. 2. Also known as the Battle of Pittsburg Landing. One of the best changes the Confederacy had to win the war in the West. Took place on April 6 to April 7, 1862. End with a Union victory. It also signaled the start of the terrible death and suffering that the rest of the war would bring. And gave the Union army greater control of the Mississippi River valley.
  2. 4. Licoln issued it on January 1, 1863 Broadened the goals of the Civil War, made freeing the slaves an explicit goal of the Union war effort. It added moral force to the Union cause and strengthened the Union both militarily and politically.
  3. 5. Loyal to Virginia, a commander of the Confederate States Army, he had commanded the Army of Northern Virginia, the most successful of the Southern armies during the American Civil War, and ultimately commanded all the Confederate armies.
  4. 7. Played the central role during the Civil War. The primary catalyst for secession. The Confederacy’s early military successes depended significantly on it. Had a great impact on the economy of the South. And one of the main causes in the civil war.
  5. 9. The battle that marked the beginning of the American Civil War (April 12–13, 1861).
Down
  1. 1. The 16th president of the United States, who leading the country during the American Civil War, pushed for the freedom of all slaves throughout the nation, abolish slavery but he was not an abolitionist.
  2. 2. The withdrawal of 11 slave states from the Union during 1860–1861.
  3. 3. Where one of the major battles took place during the civil war (July 1 to July 3, 1863), was a Union victory that stopped Confederate General Robert E. Lee's second invasion of the North, and also where an important address of LIncoln takes place (November 19, 1863) that is less than 275 words.
  4. 6. Also known as the Battle of Manassas, marked the first major land battle of the American Civil War ( July 21, 1861). This battle helped boost Southern morale and made the North realize that this would be a long war.
  5. 8. Was one of the most important events of the Civil War, the “ bloodiest single day” in American military history (September 17, 1862). The battle marked the culmination of Confederate General Robert E. Lee's first invasion of the Northern states. And was the Union victory there led to issuing the Emancipation Proclamation.