Emancipation Proclamation

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Across
  1. 4. "Angel of the Battlefield"
  2. 6. After the Emancipation Proclamation, African Americans could serve in the ___________ service.
  3. 7. The __________________ Railway Act approved the construction of a transcontinental railroad.
  4. 10. Lincoln suspended this during the Civil War.
  5. 12. The battle that encouraged Lincoln to pass the Emancipation Proclamation.
  6. 14. Lincoln's Secretary of State who convinced him to wait for a major victory to issue the Emancipation Proclamation.
  7. 16. This act offered up to 160 acres of land in the west to those willing to settle it.
  8. 17. The Emancipation Proclamation helped to keep Britain and _________ out of the war.
Down
  1. 1. The Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves in only the states in ____________.
  2. 2. The Emancipation Proclamation changed the ____________ of the war.
  3. 3. The border states were put under this type of law during the Civil War.
  4. 5. Most common surgery during the Civil War.
  5. 8. Lincoln used this power to justify and enforce the Emancipation Proclamation.
  6. 9. The Emancipation Proclamation was issued twice, September of 1862 and ______ of 1863
  7. 11. Lincoln considered the Emancipation Proclamation to be the most important part of his _____________.
  8. 13. The Emancipation Proclamation led to the passage of the _________________ amendment which abolished slavery.
  9. 15. Prisoner of war camp, worst of the worst, Milo Tuttle was here.