The American Civil War

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Across
  1. 2. Here, Lee's forces surrendered in Appomattox, Virginia in April of 1865 at a ___.
  2. 6. This document hoped to free slaves in the Southern states by allowing them to be free once they crossed into the Union.
  3. 7. Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote this novel before the war occurred; Lincoln said she "started the Civil War" with the book.
  4. 8. There were two battles here. The first was the first major battle of the Civil War, and the second was a larger version of the first just a year later.
  5. 10. Battle of ___: one of the bloodiest battles and days in the United States' history where the Union was able to defeat the Confederacy and squashed the Confederates' movement into the North.
  6. 11. "A ___ ___ against itself cannot stand." -Abraham Lincoln
  7. 12. In the December of 1860, South Carolina decided to remove itself from the Union due to Lincoln's election into office; this was their ___.
Down
  1. 1. His court case outraged many abolitionists previous to the war because it reinforced slavery into free states and declared the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional.
  2. 3. John Brown was a famous ___ who became a martyr when he led a rebellion at Harpers Ferry and was then tried/convicted of treason.
  3. 4. An American nurse who helped to create the American Red Cross from her service during the Civil War in hospitals.
  4. 5. ___ was the appointed overall commander for the Confederacy's army.
  5. 9. This line was the divide between the North and the South; it separated Maryland and West Virginia from Pennsylvania.