TN History Unit 6

2. The act of withdrawing formally from membership of the Union.
4. This battle had the single bloodiest day of fighting during the Civil War.
6. This actor assassinated Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre.
7. Northern Democrats that supported the Union but wanted to preserve slavery.
10. The government of the states that seceded from the Union.
11. Became the top general of the Confederacy after Virginia seceded.
13. Confederate General who founded the Ku Klux Klan.
15. This decree ended slavery in the Southern states.
17. This is the courthouse Lee surrendered to Grant and ended the Civil War.

1. The ineffective Union General that was fired for calling Lincoln a "gorilla."
3. At the Battle of Gettysburg, this charge resulted in a loss of half of the soldiers who participated in it.
5. The Union's final top general that defeated the Confederacy's General Lee.
8. Was president of the United States during the Civil War.
9. Confederate General who was General Lee's "right arm."
12. This was the bloodiest battle of the war and the turning point of the Civil War.
14. The Confederacy started the Civil War when they attacked this fort.
16. General Winfield Scott came up with this plan to take New Orleans and the Mississippi River.