Civil War Crossword

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  1. 2. Proclamation issued by Lincoln, freeing all slaves in areas still at war with the Union.
  2. 6. President of the Confederate States of America
  3. 7. the Union army's six-week blockade of Vicksburg that led the city to surrender during the Civil War
  4. 10. First major battle of the Civil War. People watched it happen
  5. 12. 16th President of the United States saved the Union during the Civil War and emancipated the slaves; was assassinated by Booth (1809-1865)
  6. 14. The use of troops or ships to prevent commercial traffic from entering or leaving a city or region
  7. 15. Citizens cannot be denied the right to vote because of race, color , or precious condition of servitude
  8. 17. Confederate forces surprised union troops & drove them across the Tennessee river; union got backup and won the battle but it was one of the most bloody battles in the civil war
  9. 18. the Union general who led a 400 mile march of destruction through Georgia and South Carolina
  10. 20. 1863 this three day battle was the bloodiest of the entire Civil War ended in Union victory and is considered the turning point of the war
Down
  1. 1. the amendment that abolished slavery
  2. 3. an enforced enrollment or military draft
  3. 4. A famous speech by President Lincoln on the meaning of the Civil War, given in November 1863 at the dedication of a national cemetery on the site of the Battle of Gettysburg
  4. 5. was an American stage actor who, as part of a conspiracy plot, assassinated Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. on April 14, 1865.
  5. 8. Declares that all persons born in the U.S. are citizens and are guaranteed equal protection of the laws
  6. 9. a warship equipped with iron plating for protection
  7. 11. an American general who became the 18th president of the United States of America.
  8. 13. Civil War battle in which the North succeeded in halting Lee's Confederate forces in Maryland. It was the bloodiest battle of the war resulting in 25,000 casualties
  9. 16. federal fort in the harbor of charleston south carolina the confederate attack on the fort marked the start of the civil war
  10. 19. Confederate general who had opposed secession but did not believe the Union should be held together by force