The Civil War

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  1. 2. To set free
  2. 5. A tax on people's earnings
  3. 7. The right not to be held in prison without first being charged with a specific crime
  4. 8. An all-out war that affects civilians at home as well as soldiers in combat
  5. 9. Fort in South Carolina that was the site of an attack by the African American 54th Massachusetts Regiment in 1863
  6. 11. Lincoln's 1863 declaration of freeing slaves in the Confederacy
  7. 12. An 1862 Civil War battle in Tennessee that ended in a Union victory
  8. 15. Rule by the army instead of the elected government
  9. 17. An 1862 Civil War battle in Virginia; one of the Union's worst defeats
  10. 19. A person who takes advantage of a crisis to make money
  11. 23. Ironclad warship used by the Confederates to break the Union blockade
  12. 24. Speech made by President Lincoln in 1863 after the Battle of Gettysburg
  13. 25. African American Unit in the Union Army
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  1. 1. An 1862 Civil War battle in Maryland
  2. 3. An 1863 Civil War battle in Virginia; important victory for the Confederacy
  3. 4. Slave state that remained in the Union during the Civil War
  4. 6. Northerner who opposed using force to keep the southern states in the Union
  5. 10. Law that requires people of a certain age to enlist in the military
  6. 13. First major battle of the Civil War, fought in Virginia in 1861
  7. 14. A rise in prices and a decrease in the value of money
  8. 16. Military blockade or bombardment of an enemy town or position in order to force it to surrender
  9. 18. Virginia town that was the site of the Confederate surrender in 1865
  10. 20. An 1863 Civil War battle in Pennsylvania that ended a Confederate Invasion in the North
  11. 21. Ironclad Union warship
  12. 22. Failed Confederate charge at the Battle of Gettysburg