Civil War

2. a.k.a. "Battle of Sharpsburg";this was the deadliest one-day battle in American Military history
4. repeated outbreaks of violence between proslavery and anit slavery
6. A.K.A. "Fighting Joe";The defeat from the Battle of Chancellorsville led to his resignation
9. ordered the first shots of the Civil War during the bombardment of Fort Sumter (April 12-14, 1861)
10. this caused the border states to secede from the United States
14. Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, Missouri, West Virginia
16. this group left the union because Licoln, who opposed the expansion of slavery, was elected president
17. Northen army;they were fighting to get the states back that seceded
18. He broke through confederate lines at the Battle of Spotsylvania court house;He lead his corps for Siege of Petersburg
21. the people decide for themselves if they should be a free or slave state
22. he was the general of the Manassas, Antietam, Fredricksburg and Chancellorsville Battles
25. he screened Confederate positions and intercepted Union battle plans

1. he was elected as the 18th president;he led Union armies to victory
3. it was issued by Abraham Licoln that all slaves should be let free
5. the first shots of the Civil War were shot here
7. a decade long, fight for freedom by a black enslaved man
8. this was a victory for confederacy;in this battle Lee faced an army twice as big as his and still won
11. He led the Union armies through the south (Georgia and the Carolina's);he produced revolutionary ideas of "total warfare"
12. got the nickname "young Napoleon" and "Little Mac";He was a major general during the Civil War
13. Licoln was elected and it caused 7 southern states to secede and make the confederate states
15. known as the "deciding battle in the Civil War"
19. he was the commander of the Northern Virginia army;he produced the most successful Southern army during the Civil War
20. the first major land battle of the Civil War
23. he organized an army of Rhode Island militiamen in 1861;he had one of the first units to arrive in Washington D.C.
24. an act the replaced the Missouri Compromise and it allowed popular sovereignty