Across
- 1. was VA's first major land battle.(event)
- 4. iron clads fought. ended with a draw.
- 5. a surprise attack
- 6. The cruel killing of a number of helpless or unresisting people.
- 9. the time in American history directly after the Civil War during which the South was “reconstructed” by the North after its loss in the war.
- 13. a name for the Union and its soldiers,
- 14. United States abolitionist born a slave on a plantation in Maryland and became a famous conductor on the Underground Railroad leading other slaves to freedom in the North (1820-1913)
- 17. union troops were camping in Pittsburg and the confederate states attacked before moor troops arrived.
- 20. southern states relied more on______ than factories
- 21. soldiers stationed at a fortress
- 22. ships that stopped the confederacy from getting there goods from England
- 23. a person who wants to get rid of slavery
- 25. of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands,______, was established in 1865 by Congress to help former black slaves and poor whites in the South in the aftermath of the U.S. Civil War (1861-65).
- 28. loyal to the confederate
- 29. freed slaves from rebel territory.
- 31. the confederate iron clad
- 32. railroad secret aid to escaping slaves that was provided by abolitionists in the years before the American Civil War
- 34. union leader
- 35. the union iron clad
- 37. a storage unit for weapons and armor
- 38. A soldier who was wounded, killed, or missing in action.
- 40. Paper currency which began to circulate in the North after February 1862 with the passage of the Legal Tender Act. The bills were called “greenbacks” because of their color
Down
- 2. rented land to farmers for a share of the crop
- 3. A crop such as tobacco or cotton which was grown to be sold for cash --not grown for food like corn or wheat.
- 7. dishonest of illegal actions.
- 8. women on both sides served as _______. they gathered info for there home side.
- 10. general in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War whose troops at the first Battle of Bull Run stood like a stone wall (1824-1863)
- 11. won the election in 1860, saying he will keep slavery out of the US.(cause)
- 12. southern states_______ from the north
- 15. union troops went down the Mississippi river to attack Leonidas Polk's Garrison. the union had to retreat.
- 16. first and only president of the confederacy
- 18. codes laws designed to control newly freed africans
- 19. _____ between slave and free states was one cause of the civil war
- 24. Robert E. Lee________to Ulysses S Grant at the Appomattox court house.
- 26. laws that enforced segregation
- 27. led a raid on arsenal at harpers ferry.
- 30. A branch of the military mounted on horseback. Cavalry units in the Civil War could move quickly from place to place or go on scouting expeditions on horseback, but usually fought on foot
- 33. confederate general
- 36. A state of bondage in which African Americans (and some Native Americans) were owned by other people, usually white, and forced to labor on their behalf.
- 39. led a rebellion against slavery but failed