Civil War Crossword Puzzle

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Across
  1. 3. More than 200,000 blacks in Union army and navy.
  2. 7. Issued by Abraham Lincoln on September 22,1862 it declared that all slaves in the confederate states would be free.
  3. 8. Site of Robert E. Lee's final surrender of the Army of Virginia to Ulsses S. Grant.
  4. 11. Act of 1862 that transferred substantial public acreage to the state governments, which were to sell the land and use the proceeds to finance public education.
  5. 12. A series of violent disturbances in New York City that were the culmination of discontent with new laws passed by Congress to draft men to fight in the ongoing American Civil War.
  6. 16. all black regiment
  7. 17. Widespread destruction and devastation of southern economy because of the total war and inflation.
  8. 22. There were four slave states that stayed in the Union because of the assurances that the war was being fought to preserve the Union.
  9. 23. The Emancipation Proclamation freed four million.
  10. 24. proposed by general-in-chief Winfield Scott, which emphasized the blockade of Southern ports and called for an advance down the Mississippi River.
  11. 25. Federal fort in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina; the confederate attack on the fort marked the start of the Civil War.
Down
  1. 1. Democrats who opposed the Civil War.
  2. 2. Act of 1862 that permitted any citizen or prospective citizen to claim 160 acres of public land and to purchase it for a small fee after living on it for five years.
  3. 4. (aka Manassas) McDowell was almost able to disperse the Confederate forces, but the Southerners were able to stop a last strong Union assault and began a counterattack.
  4. 5. Civil War transformed America into a complex modern industrial society of capital, technology, national organizations, and large corporations.
  5. 6. abolishes slavery in the United States.
  6. 9. The right not to be held in prison without first being charged with a specific crime.
  7. 10. ("March to the Sea") This was Sherman's destructive route from Atlanta to Savannah in Georgia. Sherman practiced Total War in this move, and destroyed anything and everything, hoping to demoralize the south.
  8. 13. men left for war so women ran businesses, homes, and farms in their absence. Even factory jobs, nurses, and war volunteers.
  9. 14. (aka Stonewall Jackson) A confederate general who defeated two seperate Union forces in the Shenandoah Valley then slipped away before McDowell could get to him.
  10. 15. laws passed by the U.S. government during the Civil war with the intention of freeing the slaves still held by the Confederate forces in the South.
  11. 18. An American stage actor who killed Abraham Lincoln
  12. 19. U.S. treasury money; could not be redeemed in gold, a fact that contributed to inflation.
  13. 20. ships with iron rams that the confederacy had arranged to purchase from Britain to use against the U.S. naval blockade.
  14. 21. 1861; USS San Jacinto intercepted the British mail steamer Trent. U.S. removed 2 confederate diplomats who were bound for Britain and France.