Civil War

1. Lincoln president during the Civil War
2. important statement
4. states did not allow slavery
7. William T. Sherman Union general who captured Atlanta, GA, then marched through GA to the sea, burning and destroying everything on the way
8. Sumter located in Charleston, South Carolina, where the first battle of the Civil War was fought
10. first Union ironclad
12. gin machine that quickly removed cotton seeds
14. War fought between north & south, 1861-1865, also called the War between the States
16. states allowed slavery
17. Ulysses S. Grant commander of the Union army
20. decision to satisfy both sides of an argument
23. Robert E. Lee commander of the Confederate army
25. Union's move to block major seaports from the south, to prevent them from receiving much needed supplies

1. Johnson president after Lincoln's death
3. Davis president of the Confederate States of America
5. Court House, Virginia where General Lee surrendered to General Grant at the end of the Civil War
6. Wilkes Booth shot and killed Abraham Lincoln in 1865
7. battle that was the turning point of the Civil War
9. set free
10. first Confederate ironclad
11. ship covered with thick iron plates to keep cannon balls and gun shells out
13. referred to the US during the Civil War
15. Proclamation President Lincoln's announcement in 1863, to free slaves
18. city captured by the Union army so the north could control the Mississippi River
19. States of America name Southern states gave themselves after withdrawing from the Union, to form their own nation
21. capital of the Confederate States
22. Compromise decision in 1821 to allow Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state & Maine as a free state, to keep the balance represented in Congress
24. Whitney man who invented the cotton gin