The Civil War

3. allowed Lincoln to keep the moral high ground.
5. This peace treaty added California to the Union.
7. Economic superhighway to the Hudson river that spurs development in the North
8. The Lone Star representing its 10 years as an independent sovereign state before being admitted to the Union in 1845.
13. Warfare that targets civilian resources & infrastructure.
14. Denied trade & resources to the CSA.
15. Bloodiest day in American history.
16. Battle in 1862 that changed how people perceived the nature of the Civil War.
17. Border between Texas & Mexico.

1. Site of the assassination that would throw the Reconstruction effort into chaos.
2. First state to secede.
4. Famous military general-"nobody from nowhere", loves cigars.
5. Here, Lincoln gave speech that redefined the war with a higher purpose of preservation of democracy.
6. Event of psychological terror designed to destroy the will to fight.
9. Commander of the Confederate States Army.
10. Final surrender.
11. Fuels the industrial revolution & increases available working hours.
12. Capital of the Confederacy.
18. Unified around the issue of opposing the expansion of slavery in new territories.