Unit 8 Vocabulary Crossword

6. a speech given by a president when they take office
7. The battle was a defeat for the Confederacy and halted the Confederate invasion of the North. This was the dealiest battle of the war, with over 50,000 casualties
8. 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 had hoped
12. a war fought exclusively between armies in which only enemy soldiers and military infrastructure are targeted
14. The union would use naval forces to strangle the South by blockading imports of military supplies and exporting cotton
15. President of the Union during the civil war
17. This Union victory ended any hopes any hopes the Confederates had of blocking the Union advance into northern Mississippi
19. a collection of souther states that seceded from the United States during the American Civil War
20. the United States

1. A union naval officer that led various naval blockades
2. 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
3. issued on January 1st,1863, by president Abraham Lincoln that declared "that all persons held as enslaved people" within the rebellious state were free
4. President of the Confederate states of America
5. The state of lasting forever
9. led virginias Confederate army upon its secession from the Union, became the commander of the entire confederate Army
10. Lasting forever
11. Confederate, earned the nickname "stonewall" because he refused to back down
13. Military historians consider the battle Even so, the Union kept confederates confined and enabled President Lincol to release the Emancipation Proclamation on September 22, 1862
16. worked his way up the union ranks during the civil war. president lincoln elevated him to the rank of lieutenant general
18. The confederate surrender at this battle occurred just a day after the Gettysburg surrender