Crossword 11.1-11.3

Question 0

What did Lincoln do to habeas corpus?

Answer 0

He suspended it so that he could jail secessionists and keep unity

“He broke the Constitution to mend the constitution”

Question 1

As Confederate money lost value the South suffered significant price____.

Answer 1

Inflation

Question 2

Peace Democrats in the north were also known as

Answer 2

Copperheads like the snake

This was considered derogatory because the snake would sneak up on you in a sneak attack

Question 3

Number of states that attempted to secede from the union

Answer 3

11

Question 4

Another word for military draft

Answer 4

Conscription

Question 5

Thomas Jackson, the CSA hero at the battle of Bull Run (aka Manassas by Chen and CSA) earned the nickname…

Answer 5

Stonewall Jackson

Question 6

Captured more supplies are called…

Answer 6

Contraband

Question 7

Jefferson Davies accuse linking of doing this through the Emancipation Proclamation

Answer 7

Inciting a servile insurrection

Question 8

Habeas corpus

Answer 8

The right not to be imprisoned without being charged with a crime

Question 9

Lincoln used his war Powers as ______ to free slaves

Answer 9

Commander-in-Chief

Question 10

Union forces led by Grant won a costly victory at this 1862 battle in Tennessee

Answer 10

Shiloh

Question 11

Act of Congress that made western land available for a low price

Answer 11

Homestead act

Question 12

The 54th Massachusetts regiment was formed by a black abolitionist named

Answer 12

Frederick Douglass

Question 13

Failed union campaign of 1862

Answer 13

Peninsula campaign

Question 14

Woman who traveled with Union Army as a nurse and later formed the American Red Cross

Answer 14

Clara Barton

Question 15

Colonel in charge of 54th Massachusetts regiment

Answer 15

Col. Shaw

Question 16

What state was Antietam fought in?

Answer 16

Maryland

Question 17

What did the CSA threaten to do to black Union soldiers if they were captured?

Answer 17

Execute or enslave them

Question 18

Gen. whose caution in battle cost the union major victories

Answer 18

McCellan

Question 19

Plan of union to control southern ports and Mississippi River

Answer 19

Anaconda plan

Question 20

Name a union slave state

Answer 20

Kentucky

Question 21

Many soldiers died from ____ as well as their battle wounds

Answer 21

Disease

Question 22

Slave states that did not secede were called

Answer 22

Border states

Question 23

The legal tender act allowed US treasury to print paper money that became known as

Answer 23

Greenbacks

Question 24

The capital of the CSA

Answer 24

Richmond Virginia

Question 25

To isolate a port by hostile forces

Answer 25

Naval blockade

Question 26

The Union victory that Lincoln was waiting for in September 1862 before making his famous Emancipation Proclamation

Answer 26

Antietam

Question 27

Officer who turned down offer to head the Union Army and led the Army of Northern Virginia instead

Answer 27

Gen. Robert E Lee