Chapter 11 vocab US History Crossword
                                                      
                                                      
                                                      
                                                      
                                                      
                                                      
                                                      
                                                      
                                                      
                                                      
                                                      
                                                      
                                                      
                                                      
                                                      
                                                      
                                                      
                                                      
                                                      
                                                      
                                                      
                                                      
                                                      
                                                      
                                                      
                                                      
                                                      
                                                      
 
 
Down: 1) July 1861 . Union gained the upper hand in the first 2 hours of the battle. A stand led by Stonewall Jackson sent them back to Washington 3) Lead the confederates. From VA had an outstanding record in the US Army opposed succession if slavery 5) April 9,1965. Confederates surrendered to the Union at the court house located in Appomattox , VA 6) July 1863 . Gettysburg: a battle of the American Civil War (1863); the defeat of Robert E. Lee's invading Confederate Army was a major victory for the Union 9) plan emphasized the blockade of the Southern ports, and called for an advance down the Mississippi River to cut the South in two10) American politicians within the Republican Party from about 1854 (before the American Civil War) until the end of Reconstruction in 1877. They called themselves "radicals" and were opposed during the war by moderates and conservative factions led by Abraham Lincoln 11) Assassinated Abraham Lincoln. He approached the presidents private box and shot him in the back of the head 12) African American soldiers that were part of the US Army 14) Riots that were held because of the discontent of drafting men into the army every year 15) March 1862. The two ships clashed. First iron ships to be built 17) The confederate capital 18) paper currency (printed in green on one side) issued by the United States during the American Civil War Across: 2) a prolonged war or period of conflict during which each side seeks to gradually wear out the other by a series of small-scale actions.4) Freed all slaves that were under Federate control 7) The single bloodiest day of the Civil War . Troops met in Sharps burg, MD . More than 23,000 died 8) The act of war that not only destroys civilians but tears down their economy 13) Nicknamed for his refusal to yield to the union armies 16) compulsory enlistment for state service, typically into the armed forces. 19) Where Abraham Lincoln was shot. Located in downtown Washington ,DC .20) built in 1862 for the Confederate States Navy at Birkenhead, England by John Laird Sons and Company. Alabama served as a successful commerce raider21) Abraham Lincoln and George McClellan ran. Lincoln won 22) Union ships prevented merchant vessels from entering or leaving the souths ports , this made the southern trading cripple23) April 1861. The first shots of the long battle of the civil war 24) Nickname for "peace democrats" who wanted to end the war against the union. Named after a poisonous snake in the south 25) pioneer American teacher, patent clerk, nurse, and humanitarian. Founded the American Red Cross. 26) Protects a person from being held in jail without being charged for s specific crime 27) July 1863. was the final major military action in the Vicksburg Campaign of the American Civil War. In a series of maneuvers, Union Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant and his Army of the Tennessee crossed the Mississippi River and drove the Confederate Army of Vicksburg led by Lt. Gen. John C. Pemberton into the defensive lines surrounding the fortress city of Vicksburg, Mississippi.28) States that allow slavery but hadn't joined the confederacy yet. These states were Missouri Maryland Kentucky and Delaware 29)  United States general who was commander of all Union troops in the West; he captured Atlanta and led a destructive march to the sea that cut the Confederacy in two (1820-1891)30) Ulysses S. Grant was the 18th president of the United States following his success as military commander in the American Civil War. 31) 1862. A law passed by congress that made western land available at a low coast to people who would use it as farm land32) the name commonly given to the Savannah Campaign conducted through Georgia from November 15 to December 21, 1864 by Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman of the Union Army in the American Civil War.
 

 

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