Across
- 2. Volume of money printed increases = Prices increase = loss of value of currency. (money becomes
- 4. the murder of a prominent person, often a political leader or ruler.
- 6. Presidential executive order issued by Abraham Lincoln that declared all slaves within the rebellious states are free. (not border states)
- 8. Union victory in the Mississippi River Valley that split the Confederacy from east to west.
- 10. Confederacy attacked a federal fort in South Carolina officially starting the Civil War in 1861.
Down
- 1. the Unions plan to strangle the South economically and militarily by taking over the Mississippi River and blockading Southern ports.
- 3. (1863), turning point in the Civil War in which the Union defeated the Confederacy, ending hopes for a Confederate victory in the North (Bloodiest battle.)
- 5. Time period after the Civil War (1865- 1877) in which the U.S. government readmitted the Confederate States and tried to fix the South.
- 7. Famous speech made by Abraham Lincoln to honor the soldiers of both sides that died at Gettysburg/ showed dedication to republicanism, equal rights, liberty, and Union.
- 9. Freedom and independence.