Across
- 2. Volume of money printed increases = Prices increase = loss of value of currency.
- 4. Presidential executive order issued by Abraham Lincoln that declared all slaves within the rebellious states are free.
- 7. famous speech made by Abraham Lincoln to honor the soldiers of both sides that died at Gettysburg/ showed dedication to republicanism, equal rights, liberty, and Union.
- 8. Freedom and independence.
- 9. the Unions plan to strangle the South economically and militarily by taking over the Mississippi River and blockading Southern ports.
- 10. the murder of a prominent person, often a political leader or ruler
Down
- 1. Union victory in the Mississippi River Valley that split the Confederacy from east to west.
- 3. turning point in the Civil War in which the Union defeated the Confederacy
- 5. time period after the civil war in which the US government readmitted the confederate states and tried to fix the south
- 6. Confederacy attacked a federal fort in South Carolina officially starting the Civil War in 1861