Civil war

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Across
  1. 3. Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland and Missouri, slave states that lay between the north and south and didn't join the confederacy
  2. 5. escaped or captured slaves taken in by the union army during the civil war
  3. 6. type of war in witch an army destroys it's o ability to fight by targeting military as well as civilian and economic resources
  4. 8. fedral outpost in Charleston, south Carolina that was attacked by confederates April 1861 witch sparked the civil war
  5. 10. union victory in the civil war that marked the bloodiest single-day battle in U.S military history
  6. 14. failed confederate attack, led by general George Pickett, at the battle of Gettysburg
  7. 15. speech given my president Lincoln in witch he praised union soldiers bravery and renewed his commitment to winning the civil war
  8. 16. series of civil war battles in witch the Confederate army successfully forced the union army to retreat from Virginia
  9. 17. civil war battle in Tennessee in witch the union gained greater control over the the Mississippi river valley
  10. 18. warships heavily armored with iron
  11. 19. first major battle of the civil war, resulting in a confederacy victory showed that the civil war would not be won easily
  12. 20. civil war battle in northwestern Arkansas in witch the union-army defeated pro-confederate Missourians
Down
  1. 1. confederate efforts to use the importance of southern cotton to Britain's textile industry to persuade the British to support the confederacy in the civil war
  2. 2. constructional protection against unlawful imprisonment
  3. 4. order issued by Abraham Linclon freeing the slaves in areas rebelling against the union
  4. 7. northern democrats who opposed abolition and sympathized with the south during the civil war
  5. 9. African American civil war regiment that helped capture fort Wagner in South Carolina
  6. 11. civil war battle in witch the confederate army forced most of the union army out of Virginia
  7. 12. union army's six-week blockade of Vicksburg that led the city to surrender during the civil war
  8. 13. union civil war victory that turned the tied against the confederates at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania; resulted in the loss of more than 50,000 soldiers