Civil War

3. battle fought July 1-3 1863
4. graduate of west point and a chief aide in the Mexican American war and assumed command of confederate army
5. northern commander before Ulysses S. Grant
7. confederate general
8. first shots of the Civil War were fired here
11. northern democrat who supported popular sovereignty
12. People would vote on rather to allow slavery or not
18. issued January 1, 1863 and freed the slaves in the states in the rebellion against the union
22. Created the underground railroad
23. Written by Harriet Beecher in 1852, motivated people in the north to support abolition
25. Republican who became president in 1860 and was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth

1. 18th President of the United States; commander of the Union armies in the American Civil War
2. opposed slavery in new territories
6. union morale law after defeat at second battle of bull run
9. African American Unit
10. One of the two major political parties in the United States.
13. sectional crisis during the presidency of Andrew Jackson created by South Carolina's 1832 Ordinance of Nullification
14. slave owners could recover slaves who ran away to free states
15. becomes the president of the confederate states of America
16. US army general who took control of western front after Grant's appointment
17. The leading southern politician of the early nineteenth century; he served as vice president under both John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson and then was elected senator from South Carolina.
19. led by social reformers, William Lloyd Garrison, founder of the American Anti-Slavery Society; writers such as John Greenleaf Whittier and Harriet Beecher Stowe.
20. Where Robert E. Lee and his troops surrendered
21. destroyed southern cities and railways to trap
24. non-supporters of the Civil War