Across
- 3. most NC men were in the army, which caused who to have to work the farms and scrape together meals for families?
- 5. Union General
- 7. Union General William T. _______ led some 60,000 soldiers on a 285-mile march from Atlanta to Savannah, Georgia.
- 10. first battle fought on Northern soil
- 11. theory to not simply destroy military targets---but to break civilian morale and destroy anything that was in the way
- 13. "Proclamation" that declared that all slaves in the states currently engaged in rebellion against the Union “shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free.”
- 15. Southern President
- 16. this battle convinced the Lincoln administration and the North that the Civil War would be a long and costly affair
- 17. Confederate Army required every healthy male between 18 and 35 to spend 3 years in the army
- 19. Northern President
- 20. In which state did they surrender?
- 22. Most important fort Confederate fort; it covered a mile of coastline; located in Wilmington, NC
Down
- 1. Who provided more troops than any other state?
- 2. Civil War "Winner"
- 4. first battle of the Civil War
- 6. Confederate General
- 8. the government created a new tax called the _______ where farmers had to give up portions of their harvest to help supply the troops
- 9. Lincoln's speech; told world that the US would continue to fight, so that everyone could enjoy freedom and equality.
- 12. the purpose of Sherman’s March to the Sea was to frighten Georgia’s civilian population into _______ the Confederate cause.
- 14. NC’s first black regiment was known as the First North Carolina ______ Volunteers
- 18. ships made of iron armor; these were a Civil War invention; they had major advantages over wooden ships
- 21. Lincoln's assassination was completed by who?
