The Civil War

4. Meant to help heal and restore the country after four years of civil war. Lincoln's 1864 reelection speech in which he advocated "malice toward none" and a peaceful reunion with the South after the war
7. President of the Confederate States of America
11. An American general and the eighteenth President of the United States (1869-1877). He achieved international fame as the leading Union general in the American Civil War.
12. Confederate general whose men stopped Union assault during the Battle of Bull Run

1. Issued by Abraham Lincoln on September 22, 1862 Declared all slaves in rebelling states to be free but did not affect slavery in non-rebelling Border States. It changed the purpose of the war to a war to end slavery, encouraged thousands of Southern slaves to flee to Union lines and allowed freed slaves to join the Union Army
2. Grant besieged the city from May 18 to July 4, 1863, until it surrendered, yielding command of the Mississippi River to the Union.
3. Confederate general who had opposed secession but did not believe the Union should be held together by force
5. A borough and town in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. It’s known for Gettysburg National Battlefield, site of a turning point in the Civil War, now part of Gettysburg National Military Park.
6. The capital of the U.S. state of Georgia. It played an important part in both the Civil War and the 1960s Civil Rights Movement.
8. General whose march to sea caused destruction to the south, union general, led march to destroy all supplies and resources, beginning of total warfare
9. Federal fort in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina; the confederate attack on the fort marked the start of the Civil War
10. right to know reason for arrest before getting arrested. Lincoln suspended, or took away, this right during the Civil War in order to maintain order in the border states