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Across
  1. 4. The failed attempt by American and French forces to retake the port city from its British occupiers.
  2. 6. Fought July 1–3, 1863, in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, by Union and Confederate forces during the American Civil War.
  3. 10. Military strategy proposed by Union General Winfield Scott early in the American Civil Wa
  4. 17. The action of reconstructing
  5. 18. A Hebrew word meaning "place of peace"
  6. 19. A native or inhabitant of Kansas
  7. 20. Laws passed at different periods in the southern United States to enforce racial segregation and curtail the power of Black voters.
  8. 21. A decisive engagement that halted the Confederate invasion of Maryland
  9. 22. The family sold for $625 a-piece, or $2,500 for the four.
Down
  1. 1. One of the largest and deadliest battles of the Civil War
  2. 2. A man holding and cultivating a small landed estate; a freeholder.
  3. 3. Gave control of the Mississippi River—a critical supply line—to the Union, and was part of the Union's successful Anaconda Plan to cut off all trade to the Confederacy
  4. 5. Once the fleeing slaves crossed Union army lines, they were classified as property.
  5. 7. To cripple the Confederacy's ability to wage war.
  6. 8. Southerners called it the Battle of Manassas, after the closest town. Northerners called it Bull Run, after a stream running through the battlefield.
  7. 9. The resistance to enslavement through escape and flight, through the end of the Civil War
  8. 11. A village in central Virginia where the Confederate army under Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant's Union forces on April 9, 1865, effectively ending the American Civil War.
  9. 12. The political policy of promoting or protecting the interests
  10. 13. An important battle of the Atlanta campaign by Union General William Sherman to launch a full-scale frontal assault on the entrenched position of General Joseph Johnston's Rebels.
  11. 14. "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."
  12. 15. Figures prominently in the Union's conquest of the Confederacy in the final year of the Civil War and in Abraham Lincoln's re-election to the US presidency
  13. 16. Named after American military officer Thomas Sumter