Civil War project puzzle

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Across
  1. 3. Major cause of death among soldiers on both sides.
  2. 5. Traveled with the Army, or North;Many joined the Union;Part of the 54th Mass. Regiment; Were freed by Abraham Lincoln.
  3. 7. The Southern States; seceeded from the union in 1860; believed abolishing slavery would ruin their way of life.
  4. 8. the USA's highest and most prestigious personal military decoration awarded for valor.
  5. 10. Union officer who was in charge of Fort Sumter.
  6. 11. fast ships that broke through the union blockade to get the southern states supplies
  7. 13. To cut off supply lines so the other side can't import or export anything.
  8. 15. When one person ownes another person; one of the causes of the Civil War.
  9. 17. Union officer that burned down southern cities.
  10. 19. Worked when the fathers and older brothers went off to war; both northern and southern took part in the war effort, scraping lint, working in ammunition factories and as government officers. Gathered food and supplies for local regiments and hospitals, and served as drummer boys.
  11. 21. Took over the men's jobs when they went away to fight in the Civil War; worked the plantations, and worked in factories. Some even dressed up as men to fight in the war.
Down
  1. 1. Another word for fearlessness.
  2. 2. President of the Confederate States of America; Leader of the Confederates.
  3. 4. When union soldiers pulled up southern railroad tracks, heated them up, and wrapped them around trees.
  4. 6. A pilot of a confederate ship who took it to the Union and saved some slaves in the process.
  5. 9. 16th US president; leader of the Union in the Civil War; wrote the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing the slaves.
  6. 12. A plan of action in war.
  7. 14. Founder of the Red Cross;helped distribute supplies to the Union army.
  8. 16. A confederate law, stating that if you had 20 slaves or more, yo could hire a substitute if you didn't want to fight in the war.
  9. 18. The Northern states; had the most men; had more railroad tracks built; used the Anaconda Plan.
  10. 20. Confederate submarine that sank the U.S.S Housatonic, a Union ship; small, hand operated by a crank.