Civil War Crossword

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  1. 5. Place where Civil War ended on April 9, 1865, when Lee surrendered to Grant.
  2. 9. U.S. Supreme Court decision which determined that slaves could not sue in federal court because they did not have the rights of citizenship.
  3. 10. Union general who believed in TOTAL WAR
  4. 13. Rapid-fire gun capable of shooting 600 rounds per minute.
  5. 14. Successful Union general who attended West Point Military Academy
  6. 16. The march of an army of 62,000 men from Atlanta toward Savannah, Georgia which left a path of almost total destruction. Often cited as the first example of total war.
  7. 18. Document freeing slaves in Union-controlled Confederate states.
  8. 21. Slave states that remained in the Union (Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, and Delaware).
  9. 22. The southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861.
  10. 23. To leave or withdraw
  11. 24. General of the Confederacy considered to be one of the greatest generals of all time
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  1. 1. Novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe that showed the horrors of slavery to Northerners.
  2. 2. A series of agreements passed by Congress in 1820-1821 to maintain the balance of power between slave states and free states. Missouri was admitted as a slave state and Maine was admitted as a free state to keep the balance of power.
  3. 3. General for the South; got his nickname because he refused to retreat during battle - he held his position like a stone wall.
  4. 4. point of the Civil War that made it clear the North would win.
  5. 5. President of the United States of America during the Civil War
  6. 6. ship made of iron
  7. 7. Civil War battle in which 25,000 men were killed or wounded, it is considered the bloodiest day of the Civil War.
  8. 8. The United States (especially the northern states during the American Civil War)
  9. 11. Union strategy for winning by "squeezing" on all sides.The Union blocked the South's coastline and Mississippi River to stop movement of people and supplies in the South.
  10. 12. A law that allowed voters in Kansas and Nebraska to choose whether to allow slavery or not.
  11. 15. Condition of being owned by, and forced to work for someone else.
  12. 17. Place in Virginia where John Brown led a raid on a federal arsenal.
  13. 19. Device that allowed messages to be sent by wires over long distances/ Helped Union send battle information.
  14. 20. Union military post in South Carolina which was taken over by the Confederacy in 1861.