Civil War

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Across
  1. 2. Embarrassing first battle for the Union, grab your picnick baskets!
  2. 5. Political party formed to oppose slavery
  3. 6. River that both sides needed to control to win the war
  4. 10. Law requiring the return of escaped slaves
  5. 15. New warships that first fought at the Battle of Hampton Roads
  6. 16. Term for the division between the North and South before the Civil War
  7. 19. First state to secede
  8. 21. The effort to reunite and rebuild after the war, included the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments
  9. 22. Scorched Earth campaign in Georgia led by General Sherman
  10. 24. Abbreviation for the country formed by the southern states
  11. 25. Conductor who helped hundreds of slaves escape
  12. 28. Location of Lee's surrender
  13. 29. A word for leaving the Union
Down
  1. 1. Violence that erupted in Kansas between pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers
  2. 3. A "wall" of Northern ships surrounding the south
  3. 4. President of the South during the war
  4. 7. Main Confederate general of the war
  5. 8. Fort in Charleston Harbor where the war started
  6. 9. President of the North during the war
  7. 11. Lincoln's decree that all slaves in the South were free
  8. 12. Network of abolitionists who helped slaves escape
  9. 13. Device that made cotton production more efficient
  10. 14. Main Union general of the war
  11. 17. Made Joshua Chamberlain a hero, "Bayonetsssss!"
  12. 18. Assassin of Lincoln
  13. 20. Region with more factories and industry
  14. 23. Region with more agriculture, reliant on slavery
  15. 26. Someone who opposed slavery
  16. 27. Bloodiest single day in U.S. history