Civil War Review

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Across
  1. 4. Commander of the Confederate Army
  2. 6. Union Commander
  3. 7. President of the Confederacy
  4. 10. She wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin to expose the cruelty of slavery
  5. 13. Location where slaves were given asylum and considered "contraband" of war
  6. 14. His election was followed by the secession of the South
  7. 15. Southern women protested the price of bread due to hunger and poverty in this event
  8. 16. Hastened the end of the war by making the south feel "the hard hand of war"
  9. 18. This battle introduced the first ironclads and progressed naval technology
  10. 22. First official battle of the Civil War, showed the war would be long and bloody
  11. 23. Location of Lee's surrender to Grant
Down
  1. 1. Lincoln's goal at the beginning of the war was to ___ the Union.
  2. 2. This slave brought a case to the Supreme Court which declared that slaves were "property"
  3. 3. Speech that described the Civil War as a struggle to preserve a democratic nation
  4. 5. Executive order that released all slaves in areas of rebellion
  5. 8. This battle allowed the Union to advance in the west toward the Mississippi
  6. 9. Controversial law that made it mandatory for northerners to help catch runaway slaves
  7. 11. First shots fired of the Civil War
  8. 12. Former slave and abolitionist who encouraged African Americans to join the Union army
  9. 17. This battle was considered the turning point of the war
  10. 19. After this battle Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation
  11. 20. Southern states believed that they could ___ a federal law and not follow it
  12. 21. Identifying with and putting the needs of a region over the needs of the country