VUS.7abc Vocabulary - The Civil War

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Across
  1. 2. Confederate military commander who urged Southerners to accept defeat and unite as Americans.
  2. 6. 16th President, POTUS during Civil War, insisted that the U.S. would be held together by force if necessary.
  3. 12. group of eleven states that seceded from the Union, fought against the U.S. during the Civil War.
  4. 13. SC rules that those of African descent brought to the U.S. were not protected under the Constitution and could never be U.S. citizens.
  5. 14. Union military general, won victories over South after several failures by Union generals.
  6. 15. act of a state or states withdrawing from the United States.
  7. 17. bloodiest day of Civil War, first battle fought on Northern soil, won by U.S., led to Lincoln issuing Emancipation Proclamation.
Down
  1. 1. site of Southern surrender to North.
  2. 3. author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
  3. 4. turning point in Civil War, won by Union in PA, famous for Pickett’s Charge.
  4. 5. turned focus of war to slavery, freed slaves in Southern states, discouraged interference of foreign governments in Civil War.
  5. 7. Former enslaved AA who became a prominent abolitionist and urged Lincoln to recruit former enslaved AA to fight in the Union Army.
  6. 8. first confrontation of the Civil War, fought in SC.
  7. 9. anti-slavery novel, depicted horrors of slavery, fueled the abolitionist cause in the 1850’s.
  8. 10. made by Lincoln, set forth the North’s dual war aims of preserving the Union and abolishing slavery.
  9. 11. Davis U.S. Senator who became President of the CSA
  10. 16. Founded in the Northern U.S. in the 1850’s as an anti-slavery party, Lincoln was first Republican President.