Civil War Crossword

the formal withdrawal of a state from the unio
A system in which the residents vote to decide an issue
A system of routes along which runaway slaves were helped to escape to Canada or to safe areas in the free states
The confederate states of America and a confer action formed in 1861 by the southern states after their secession from the union
A slave whose owner took him the slave state of Missouri to free territory in Illinois and Wisconsin and back to missour
Republican challenger congressman , a self educated man who had been elected to one term in congress in 1846 challenged the man known as the "little giant"
A well known two term senates with an outstanding record and a large campaign chest.
On a island in charleston harbor . Abraham decided to neither abandon fort Sumter or abandoned
"The stands Jackson like a stone wall"the union army gained the upper hand,but the confederates held firm
A brave and decivise military commander
Has a very different from McClellan modest rather than vain , and willing to go beyond military textbooks in his tactics
An executive order issued by Abraham Lincoln on January 1,1863 freeing the slaves in a all regions behind confederate lines
a famous speech Lincoln delieverd on November 1863 @ the dedication of a national cemetery on the site of the battle of getty'sburg
southern sympathizer who assassinated Lincoln
a federal agency set up to help former slaves after the civil war
an amendment to the U.S. constitution, adopted in 1868, that makes all people born or naturalized in the united states including former slaves
the period of rebuilding that followed the civil war, during which defeated confederate states were readmitted to the union.
he led the union army through Georgia destroying farms,cities and other means that helped the confederate cause
a white southerner who joined the republican party after the civil war
a tax on earnings
town near Appomattox ,virgina where lee surrounded to grant on April 9 1865
a pioneer american teacher ,patient clerk, nurse and humanitarian founded "Red Cross"
an amendent to the U.S. constitution adopted in 1865, that has abolished slavery and involuntary servitude.