Civil War Crossword Puzzle

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Across
  1. 2. Democrats who opposed Lincoln in the 1864 election
  2. 5. a compromise suggested by Kentucky senator John Crittenden that would restore the 36°30′ line from the Missouri Compromise and extend it to the Pacific Ocean, allowing slavery to expand into the southwestern territories
  3. 6. paper money the United States began to issue during the Civil War
  4. 8. the Union fighting force operating in Kentucky, Tennessee, and the Mississippi River Valley
  5. 10. enslaved people who escaped to the Union army’s lines
  6. 12. signed on January 1, 1863, the document with which President Lincoln transformed the Civil War into a struggle to end slavery
  7. 13. a state of war in which the government makes no distinction between military and civilian targets and mobilizes all resources, extending its reach into all areas of citizens’ lives
Down
  1. 1. the scorched-earth campaign employed in Georgia by Union General William Tecumseh Sherman
  2. 3. a speech by Abraham Lincoln dedicating the military cemetery at Gettysburg on November 19, 1863
  3. 4. the commander of army land forces
  4. 7. the Union fighting force operating outside Washington, DC
  5. 9. the right of those arrested to be brought before a judge or court to determine whether there is cause to hold the prisoner
  6. 10. the new nation formed by the seceding southern states, also known as the Confederate States of America (CSA)
  7. 11. a fort in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina, where the Union garrison came under siege by Confederate forces in an attack on April 12, 1861, beginning the Civil War