Civil War Crossword

4. Union strategy to defeat the Confederacy, using a blockade to keep supplies away from the south
5. Cash payments
8. Gun with a grooved barrel that causes a bullet to spin through the air.
11. Who assassinated President Lincoln?
13. Slave states that bordered states in which slavery was illegal.
14. Laws designed to enforce segregation of blacks from whites.
15. Lincoln's first goal as president was to
16. Talented Military Leader
17. What did the 13th Amendment abolish?
19. Warships covered with iron.
20. Bullet with a hollow base.
21. Bloodiest day in all of American History
22. Conditions and practices that promote health.

1. Proclamation issued by Lincoln as a military tactic, freeing all slaves in areas still at war with the Union.
2. Soldiers on horseback.
3. tax on earnings
6. Abolitionist who killed pro slavery settlers in Kansas and was hanged after leading an unsuccessful raid at Harper's Ferry, Virginia
7. What right did the 15th Amendment grant to African Americans?
9. Lincoln's main opponents
10. Armed forces that prevent the transportation of goods or people into or out of an area.
12. Lee and McClellan's army clashed for a week.
18. What does the 14th Amendment define?