Civil War

2. Battle-cry of the Confederate troops that terrified the Union soldiers
5. Famous speech by President Lincoln that called for a "new birth of freedom"
7. Executive Order that freed the enslaved in the seceded states
13. To go your own way or breaking off ties
14. Referring to the United States fighting to preserve the nation
15. To go your own way or breaking off ties
16. Type of warfare where combatants will destroy anything of military value

1. Conflict between the Union and the Confederacy
3. 16th President who kept the Union together through the Civil War
4. Loyalty to a region rather than the country as a whole
6. Political Party formed to end slavery
8. Referring to the southern states that seceded from the Union
9. Bloodiest day of US History
10. New warship type that covers the ship with iron plates to offer much greater protection
11. First land battle of the Civil War
12. Slave-holding states that stayed with the Union