Across
- 1. border state that was significant to the North because, if it seceded, it would mean Washington DC was surrounded by the Confederates
- 7. side in the Revolutionary war that had better quality officers and were fighting a defensive war
- 8. slave states that did not secede from the Union
- 11. the first major battle of the Civil War
- 12. side in the Revolutionary war that had the most factories, men, food, and railroads
- 13. president of the Confederate States of America
Down
- 2. winner of the Election of 1860
- 3. the first shots of the Civil War were fired at this location
- 4. the pro slavery, pro secession candidate in the Election of 1860
- 5. controlling this border state meant controlling access to part of the Mississippi River for the North
- 6. border state that was important to the Union because it bordered the Ohio River
- 9. candidate in the Election of 1860 that believed that the issue of slavery should be solved by popular sovereignty within the states
- 10. Carolina the first state to secede from the Union
