Civil War Crossword Puzzle

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  1. 2. President of the Confederate States of America
  2. 4. The commanding general of the Confederacy's Army of Northern Virginia.
  3. 5. This battle led to the Emancipation Proclamation.
  4. 6. The President of the United States of America.
  5. 7. Includes California being admitted as a free state and, the Fugitive Slave Act
  6. 9. A man who dug in and held their position on a hill overlooking Bull Run Creek until reinforcements could arrive and organize a counter-attack.
  7. 11. People hold the final authority in all matters of government
  8. 12. Lincoln's primary goal at the beginning of the war
  9. 14. Battle that started the war.
  10. 16. Declared that all slaves in the rebellious Confederate states would be free
  11. 17. The speech delivered by Abraham Lincoln at the dedication of a national cemetery on the site of the Battle of Gettysburg.
  12. 18. An act that stated Kansas and Nebraska would use popular sovereignty to decide what to do about slavery.
  13. 19. Union army's blockade of Vicksburg, Mississippi, that led the city to surrender during the Civil War
Down
  1. 1. Turning point of the War
  2. 3. A slave state that remained in the Union during the Civil War
  3. 5. Choke the South out of its resources through blockades of bodies of water
  4. 8. Compromise set where Missouri became a slave state and Maine a free state
  5. 10. Withdraw from an organization or communion
  6. 13. Nurse during the Civil War; started the American Red Cross
  7. 15. Southern states that seceded from the United States