Unit 8 Vocabulary Quiz

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Across
  1. 2. a speech given by a president when they take office
  2. 7. military historians consider it a stalemate; Even so, the Union kept Confederates confined and enabled Lincoln to release the Emancipation Proclamation on September 22, 1862
  3. 8. the Union would use naval forces to strangle the South by blockading imports of military supplies and exporting cotton
  4. 9. worked his way up the Union ranks during the Civil War; Lincoln elevated him to the rank of lieutenant general, and named him general-in-chief of the Armies of the United States; later served as President
  5. 12. to keep something in its original state
  6. 16. Confederate, earned "Stonewall" nickname because he refused to back down; he was shot by one of his soldiers accidentally and died several days later
  7. 18. 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 (aka hard)
  8. 19. a war fought exclusively between armies in which only enemy soldiers and military infrastructure are trageted
  9. 20. 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
  10. 21. the battle was a defeat for the Confederacy and halted the Confederate invasion of the North; deadliest battle of the war, with over 50,000 casualties
Down
  1. 1. a Union naval officer that led various naval blockades to victory; his biggest accomplishment was planning and executing a joint army-navy operation to take control of Mobile Bay, Alabama in August of 1864
  2. 3. the United States
  3. 4. issued on January 1, 1863, by President Lincoln that declared "that all persons held as enslaved people" within the rebellious states were free
  4. 5. the state of lasting forever
  5. 6. a collection of southern states that seceded from the United States during the American Civil War
  6. 10. this Union victory ended any hopes the Confederates had of blocking the Union advance into Northern Mississippi
  7. 11. President of the Confederate States of america
  8. 13. President of the Union during the war
  9. 14. led Virginia's confederate army upon its secession from the Union, became the commander of the entire Confederate Army
  10. 15. lasting forever
  11. 17. the Confederate surrender occurred just a day after the Gettysburg surrender and crushed Confederate hopes of receiving foreign recognition