Unit 8:Civil War

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  1. 4. 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.
  2. 7. the state of lasting forever
  3. 10. issued on January 1st,1863,by President Abraham Lincoln that declared "that all persons held as enslaved people"within the rebellious states were free
  4. 12. a speech given by a president when they take office
  5. 13. The Confederate surrender at Vicksburg occurred just a day after the Gettysburg surrender and crushed Confederate hope of receiving foreign recognition.
  6. 15. grant worked his way up the Union ranks during the Civil War.President Lincoln elevated Grant 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.
  7. 16. 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 of September 22.1862.
  8. 17. the United states
  9. 19. 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
  10. 21. a collection of southern states that seceded from the United States during the American Civil War
  11. 22. to keep something in its original state
Down
  1. 1. 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
  2. 2. President of the Union during the Civil War
  3. 3. President of the Confederate states of America
  4. 5. lasting forever
  5. 6. 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.
  6. 8. Missouri,Kentucky,West Virgina,Maryland and Delaware
  7. 9. The Union would use naval forces to strangle the South by blockading imports of Military supplies and exporting cotton
  8. 11. a Union naval officer that led various naval blockade to victory.Farragut's biggest accomplishment was planing and executing a joint army-navy operation to take control of Mobile Bay,Alabama,in August of 1864.
  9. 14. The union victory ended-any hopes the Confederates had of blocking the Union advanced into Northern Mississippi
  10. 18. a war fought exclusively between armies in which only enemy soldiers and military infrastructure are targeted
  11. 20. Led Virginia's Confederate army upon its secession from the union,became the commander of the entire Confederate Army.