Unit 8: Civil War

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Across
  1. 3. to keep something in its original state
  2. 5. this union victory ended any hopes the confederate had of blocking the union advance into northern Mississippi
  3. 7. a strategy that included the systematic destruction of any property or supplies, including those belonging to civilians, that are essential to the enemy's ability to wage war
  4. 9. a speech given by a president when they take office
  5. 11. the state of lasting forever
  6. 13. a war fought exclusively between armies in which only enemy shoulders and military infrastructure are targeted
  7. 15. president of the union during the civil war
  8. 18. president of the Confederate states of American
  9. 20. the union would use naval forces to strangle the south by blockading imports of military supplies and exporting cotton
Down
  1. 1. the confederate surrender at Vicksburg occured just a day after the Gettysburg surrender and crushed confederate hopes of receiving foreign recognition
  2. 2. lasting forever
  3. 4. a collection of southern states that seceded from the United States during civil war
  4. 6. led Virginia's confederate army upon its secession from the union,became the commander of the entire confederate army
  5. 8. the battle was a defeat for the confederacy and halted the confederate invasion of the north this was the deadliest battle of the war, with over 50,000 casualties
  6. 10. military historians consider the battle of Antietam a stalemate, even so the union kept confederates confined and enabled president Lincoln to release the emancipation proclamation on September 22,1862
  7. 12. the confederate victory gave the south a surge of confidence and shocked many in the north, who realized the war would not be won as easily as they hoped
  8. 14. confederate, earned the nickname stonewall because he refused to back down.he was shot by one of his shoulders accidentally and died several days later
  9. 16. issued on January 1st 1863 by president Lincoln that declared that all persons held as enslaved people within the rebellious states were free
  10. 17. a union naval officer that led various naval blockades to victory.
  11. 19. the United states