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- 4. A new, improved version of the musket that had increased accuracy and could fire Minie Ball bullets up to 1,000 feet, but they took a long time to load.
- 5. A code consisting of dots and dashes to represent characters in the alphabet.
- 8. A lethal disease occurring in improperly tended wounds, was one of the worst killers in the Civil War.
- 10. Large farms that specialized in one crop and utilized slavery to maintain and run these, the south had an abundance of them.
- 11. One of the volunteer nurses in the Civil War, she was a pioneer in the medical field and later founded the American Red Cross.
- 13. The president at the time the Confederate states were seceding and unrest was stirring between the north and south. Entered office in 1861 as the 16th president.
- 14. An art form that brought publicity to the tragedies of the civil war when they were published in newspapers.
- 17. The name of the first entirely African-American regiments in the Civil War, quickly becoming one of the most famous ones.
- 18. A place in Pennsylvania that held an especially costly battle and afterward, the first National Cememtary. Lincoln gave his famous address here.
- 19. The chemical element that was discovered to fight off and prevent gangrene in amputation wounds.
- 20. The group consisting of South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas. They fought for Slavery in the Civil War.
- 21. The network of transportation that stretched across the united states, the Union owned 21,000 miles, while the Confederation only owned 9,000 miles.
- 23. The violent conflict between confederate and union states, claimed the lives of at least 618,000 soldiers.
- 24. A common medical practice during the civil war that was used to stop infection spreading through the body from a wound by removing the inflicted limb.
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- 1. The act of a group separating from a larger organization.
- 2. The commander in chief of the Union Army.
- 3. A state of war in which there are little to no restrictions on weapons, targets, and the Laws of War aren't followed.
- 6. The commander in chief of the Confederate Army.
- 7. An invention of the War that allowed information to travel instantaneously by using dots and dashes to represent letters.
- 9. Made slavery illegal in the southern states, passed in 1863.
- 12. The ending of slavery, the union believed in this while the south were terrified that this would happen.
- 15. Being able to manufacture large quantities of a product, the north had an advantage because their factories allowed them to do this.
- 16. A lead bullet that was used in the Civil War, was considered an innovation back when it was invented in 1848.
- 22. The group of free states that fought to abolish slavery in the Civil War, their primary color was blue.