SSUSH 9 Word Scramble
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Term | Definition |
Abraham Lincoln | 16th president; president during Civil War; reelected in 1864; assassinated. |
Jefferson Davis | President of the Confederacy |
Ulysses S. Grant | Northern Army general during Civil War; later became president |
Robert E. Lee | Southern Army general |
William T. Sherman | Northern Army officer; lead “March to the Sea” through Georgia |
Andrew Johnson | Lincoln’s successor; President during Reconstruction. Was impeached and acquitted |
Battle of Antietam | Bloodiest day in US History – Civil War battle in Maryland that the North wins – Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation |
Battle of Gettysburg | Bloodiest battle (3 days) in US History – South forced to retreat after invading Pennsylvania & cannot recover from loss of soldiers July 1863 |
Battle of Vicksburg | Northern victory – cut south in two by gaining control of the Mississippi River. July 1863 |
Battle for Atlanta | Northern victory & part of the "March to the Sea" . South can’t recover |
Emancipation Proclamation | Lincoln issues in 1863 to hurt Confederate war effort. Symbolically "freed" slaves in the south. |
Gettysburg Address | Lincoln speech after bloody 3 day battle that raises US morale to keep fighting |
Habeas Corpus | Americans right not to be arrested without cause; Lincoln suspended it during Civil War |
George McCellan | First general of the Union Army. Was fired by Lincoln after Antietam. |
Fort Sumter | Union fort in Charleston Harbor. The southern bombardment of this fort marked the beginning of the Civil War |
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