Unit 8 Vocabulary Test

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Across
  1. 4. issued on January 1st, 1863, by President Abraham Lincoln that declared "that all persons held as enslaved people" within the rebellious states were free
  2. 6. the United States
  3. 7. to keep something in its original state
  4. 9. a collection of southern states that seceded from the United States during the American Civil War
  5. 11. 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
  6. 13. a war fought exclusively between armies in which only enemy soldiers and military infrastructure are targeted
  7. 15. the state of lasting forever
  8. 16. President of the Union during the Civil War
  9. 17. President fo the Confederate States of America
  10. 20. 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
  11. 21. a speech given by a president when they take office
Down
  1. 1. a stalemate; the Union kept Confederates confined and enabled President Lincoln to release the Emancipation Proclamation on September 22, 1862
  2. 2. the Union would use naval forces to strangle the South by blocking imports of military supplies and exporting cotton
  3. 3. Confederate, earned the nickname "Stonewall" because he refused to back down. He was shot by one of his soldiers accidentally and died several days later
  4. 5. lasting forever
  5. 8. the Confederate surrender here occured just a day after the Gettysburg surrender and crushed Confederate hopes of receiving foreign recognition
  6. 10. 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
  7. 12. led Virginia's Confederate army upon its secession from the Union, became the commander of the entire Confederate Army
  8. 14. worked his way up the Union ranks during the Civil War. President Lincoln elevated him to the rank of lieutenant general, and named him general-in-chief of the Armies of the United States. He would later serve as president
  9. 18. this Union victory ended any hopes the Confederates had of blocking the Union advance into northern Mississippi
  10. 19. 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