Civil War Review

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Across
  1. 1. A federal fort in South Carolina where the first shots of the Civil War were fired.
  2. 4. Confederate General during the Civil War.
  3. 10. Definite Union victory during the Civil War that divided the Confederacy in half.
  4. 11. The Courthouse where the Confederacy surrendered, officially ending the Civil War.
  5. 12. Supreme Court case in 1857 that ruled slaved were not considered U.S citizens, and therefore could not sue in federal court.
  6. 14. This political party advocated for States' Rights.
  7. 16. Presidential order, made my President Lincoln, declaring all slaves free in the rebelling states.
  8. 18. Important speech given by President Lincoln to encourage the Union to continue fighting to preserve the Union.
  9. 23. Law passed as part of the Compromise of 1850 that helped slave holders recapture runaway slaves, and forcing free northern states to return escaped slaves to their southern owners.
  10. 24. The winner of the Election of 1860.
  11. 25. A period of violence and political turmoil in the Kansas Territory caused by disagreements over the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854.
  12. 26. The ______ States of America was formed on February 4, 1861.
Down
  1. 2. 20 years.
  2. 3. Union General during the Civil War.
  3. 5. Gettysburg Address : ______ 19, 1863.
  4. 6. Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse : ______ 2, 1865.
  5. 7. ______ Compromise : Law passed in 1820 that admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
  6. 8. The First state to secede from the Union.
  7. 9. President of the Confederate States of American during the Civil War.
  8. 13. The Battle of ______ : The first battle in Union territory, resulting in the single bloodiest day of the Civil War.
  9. 15. ______ Act of 1854 : Law that established the territories of Kansas and Nebraska and gave their residents the right to choose whether to allow slavery.
  10. 17. Major victory for the Union and a turning point of the war : Battle of ______.
  11. 19. This political party advocated for abolition.
  12. 20. This officially started the Civil War.
  13. 21. The ______ : The most deadly war in United States history.
  14. 22. President of the United States of America during the Civil War.