The Civil War

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Across
  1. 3. A civil war is a war between organized groups within the same state (or country).
  2. 4. 1st Turning Point • In 1863, Robert E. Lee made another attempt to invade the North.
  3. 7. to destroy the land and property of the South in order to win the war.
  4. 8. strategy for winning the war was to surround the South and strangle it by blockading southern ports and controlling the Mississippi River
  5. 10. An African American soldier for the Union during the Civil War. Won the Congressional Medal of Honor.
  6. 11. South President: Jefferson Davis General: Robert E. Lee
Down
  1. 1. General Lee met and surrendered to General Grant
  2. 2. This was the single bloodiest day of the war as over 6,000 soldiers were killed in one day.
  3. 5. freed slaves in the Confederacy
  4. 6. A draft which required men to fight in the Civil War.
  5. 9. North President: Abraham Lincoln General: Ulysses S. Grant