Across
- 3. Southern states that left the United States of America in 1861
- 6. first and only president of the confederacy
- 9. Escaped slave and recruited African Americans for the civil war
- 10. Law that says any escaped slaves must be returned even if they got to the north
- 11. First real battle of the civil war
- 12. Speech given By Abraham Lincoln in dedication of the battle of gettysburg
- 17. Where Robert E. Lee surrendered on april ninth
- 19. Bloodiest day of the civil war
- 22. He was the 18th president and commanded for the union
- 23. Got his nickname for holding his ground like a stonewall
- 24. someone who wants to get rid of slavery
- 25. How many states left the union for the Confederacy
Down
- 1. commander in the confederate army and is from Virginia
- 2. Amendment that abolished slavery
- 4. In virginia where John Brown attempted to leave a slave rebellion
- 5. First battle in the civil war
- 7. freed all slaves on the confederate side
- 8. Kansas and Nebraska can choose to be a free or slave state
- 13. start July 1st and ended July 3rd
- 14. Gave the north the Mississippi
- 15. An abolitionist who was the author to Uncle Tom’s Cabin
- 16. Maine was a free state in this compromise
- 18. the cause of the civil war
- 20. Novel that showed the horrors of slavery to the north
- 21. He’s on the five dollar bill and the sixteenth president