Civil War

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Across
  1. 2. Brown, Famous abolitionist leader who is infamous for his failed incitement of a slave rebellion at Harpers Ferry
  2. 3. Tompkins, Performed so well as a nurse that she was eventually commissioned as a captain
  3. 6. Barton, Union nurse who founded the American Red Cross after the war
  4. 11. Jackson, This Confederate general "stood there like a stonewall" at the battle of Bull Run
  5. 12. Lincoln, President of the United States/The Union
  6. 13. The party Abraham Lincoln belonged to, and many other abolitionists.
  7. 15. tax, A tax that takes a specified percentage of an individual’s income
  8. 17. Proclamation, promised the freedom of enslaved people in the Confederacy
  9. 18. Sumter, Union controlled fort on an island in Charleston Harber
Down
  1. 1. Britain, European country that had reasons to intervene on either side of the Civil War but remained neutral
  2. 2. Davis, President of The Confederacy
  3. 4. Bloodiest battle in the war resulting in 26,000 casualties.
  4. 5. G. Farragut, Commanded 40 Union ships and took New Orleans
  5. 6. An involuntary draft for men to serve in the army
  6. 7. Corpus, forbade the government to hold citizens without charging them for any crime but was suspended on both sides of the civil war
  7. 8. E. Lee, Confederate general who took control of Joseph E. Johnston's army and fought in Antietam
  8. 9. McClellan, Union general who was appointed by lincoln after the Union's failure at bull run, but was removed from command after he lost a chance to win the war after Antietam
  9. 10. S. Grant, Union general who led the invasion of Tennessee and captured Fort Henry and Fort Donelson
  10. 14. The view that advocated for the immediate emancipation of slavery without compensation
  11. 16. Douglass, African American who escaped slavery and was then able to advocate for abolition. Published the North Star