Civil War & Reconstruction

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  1. 6. President who signed the compromise of 1850
  2. 11. 16th president of the United States
  3. 12. Union general, won significant victories, supreme commander of all Union forces
  4. 17. Only bachelor president whose term in office was the last before the Civil War began
  5. 18. President who had to deal with the controversy surrounding the Kansas-Nebraska Act
  6. 19. Lincoln's opponent in 1858 race for senate and driving force behind the Kansas-Nebraska Act
  7. 20. COmmander of Lee's cavalry corps
  8. 21. Leader of the "foot cavalry;" "Stonewall"
Down
  1. 1. Freed slave who worked in the abolitionist movement
  2. 2. "Great Compromiser" who helped to negotiate the Missouri Compromise of 1820 and the Compromise of 1850
  3. 3. Author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin"
  4. 4. Radical Republican who was the chief author of the 14th amendment
  5. 5. Lincoln's assasin
  6. 7. Confederate general present at Fort Sumter and Petersburg
  7. 8. Confederate general who led the charge up Cemetery Hill at Gettysburg
  8. 9. Commander of the Army of Norther Virginia and eventually supreme commander of all Confederate forces
  9. 10. Whig president, "Old Rough and Ready"
  10. 13. Civil war nurse, founded American Red Cross
  11. 14. Developed the anaconda plan
  12. 15. Union Commander in the West responsible for the burning of Atlanta and the destructive March to the Sea
  13. 16. Fanatical abolitionist who attempted to start a slave rebellion at Harper's Ferry, VA