Lincoln Crossword
Created by Angela Orr, Graduate Assistant
This puzzle covers events, people, and places important to the shaping of Abraham Lincoln.
This puzzle is recommended for grades 7-12.
Word Bank
Gettysburg Address
reconstruction
Savannah
Grant
Andrew Johnson
assassination
Kentucky
Sherman
Stephen Douglas
Robert Todd
Springfield
Mary Todd
Slavery
John Wilkes Booth
Emancipation Proclamation
Lincoln Crossword
Created by Angela Orr, Graduate Assistant
Across
1. Speech given to sanctify a battle field
3. City “delivered’ to President Lincoln as a Christmas present as part of Sherman’s March
to the Sea.
5. Commanding General of the United States Army who worked to ensure a win over the
Confederacy.
7. to kill a person, particularly one who holds political office.
9. The man who assassinated President Lincoln at Ford’s Theater.
11. Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln’s only child to survive into adulthood.
13. the act of holding a person as a servant.
15. City that holds President Lincoln’s burial site.
Down
2. Wife of Abraham Lincoln
4. Birth state of Lincoln
6. The man who held 7 debates against Abraham Lincoln.
8. Second Vice President to Abraham Lincoln.
10. General who lead the March to the Sea from Atlanta, GA to Savannah, GA.
12. Name given to the time period after the Civil War Ended.
14. Document that freed all slaves in the rebelling states during the Civil War .