Topic 9 - Civil War

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  1. 4. A person displaced by war.
  2. 6. South Carolina, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, and Georgia.
  3. 7. To strengthen.
  4. 9. ________ of 1850 (1) California admitted as free state, (2) territorial status and popular sovereignty of Utah and New Mexico, (3) resolution of Texas-New Mexico boundaries, (4) federal assumption of Texas debt, (5) slave trade abolished in DC, and (6) new fugitive slave law; advocated by Henry Clay and Stephen A. Douglas
  5. 10. A storage facility for weapons and ammunition.
  6. 11. A ship covered with iron armor.
  7. 15. Armed supporters of slavery who crossed the border to vote in Kansas.
  8. 18. Rule or control.
  9. 20. The selection system for required military service.
  10. 23. To set free.
  11. 24. A legal process that prohibits the government from jailing anyone without lawful grounds.
  12. 27. A 3-minute address by Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War (November 19, 1963) at the dedication of a national cemetery on the site of the Battle of Gettysburg.
  13. 30. Soldier who is killed, wounded, or capture.
  14. 33. Abolitionist who was hanged after leading an unsuccessful raid at Harper's Ferry, Virginia (1800-1858)
  15. 35. To join, usually a military force.
  16. 37. ________ Court House: Famous as the site of the surrender of the Confederate Army under Robert E. Lee to Union commander Ulysses S. Grant.
  17. 38. Union General who destroyed South during "march to the sea" from Atlanta to Savannah, example of total war.
  18. 39. Battle of ______ 1863, Union gains control of Mississippi, confederacy split in two, Grant takes lead of Union armies, total war begins.
  19. 40. A person who wanted to end slavery.
Down
  1. 1. Federal fort in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina; the confederate attack on the fort marked the start of the Civil War.
  2. 2. To formally withdraw from an alliance or union.
  3. 3. Battle of ______ Turning point of the War that made it clear the North would win. 50,000 people died, and the South lost its chance to invade the North.
  4. 5. _______ Jackson He was one of the South's greatest generals during the Civil War. Pious and uncommunicative, he possessed an uncanny, almost intuitive grasp of Gen. Robert E. Lee's orders. He was killed at the Battle of Chancellorsville (1863) when he was accidentally shot by one of his own soldiers. His death in 1863 sped up the Confederacy's downfall.
  5. 8. A war between citizens of the same country.
  6. 12. President of the Confederate States of America
  7. 13. Issued by Abraham Lincoln on September 22, 1862 it declared that all slaves in the confederate states would be free.
  8. 14. sovereignty A belief that ultimate power resides in the people. In the context of slavery, enabled people to vote whether or not their state would have slavery.
  9. 16. General of the Union Army and was responsible for winning the Civil War for the North. Would later become a president of the United States.
  10. 17. Maine, New York, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Kansas, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, California, Nevada, and Oregon
  11. 19. A general for northern command of the Army of the Potomac in 1861; nicknamed "Tardy George" because of his failure to move troops to Richmond; lost battle vs. General Lee near the Chesapeake Bay; Lincoln fired him twice.
  12. 21. Political party that believed in the non-expansion of slavery & consisted of Whigs, N. Democrats, & Free-Soilers in defiance to the Slave Powers
  13. 22. To bring into use.
  14. 25. A person who runs away from legal authority.
  15. 26. A person who dies or suffers for a cause.
  16. 28. A small river that feeds into a larger one.
  17. 29. State between the North and South that was divided over whether to remain in the Union or join the Confederacy.
  18. 31. _______ Battle of Bull Run: First "real" battle of the Civil War, it was expected by Union officials to be short but ended up a Confederate victory.
  19. 32. Confederate general who had opposed secession but did not believe the Union should be held together by force
  20. 34. 16th President of the United States saved the Union during the Civil War and emancipated the slaves; was assassinated by Booth. (1809-1865)
  21. 36. 1854 - Created Nebraska and Kansas as states and gave the people in those territories the right to chose to be a free or slave state through popular sovereignty.