Civil War

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Across
  1. 1. the effort by the North to keep ships from entering or leaving Southern Ports
  2. 4. is a term used a=to describe the hard crackers often issued to soldiers of both sides during the Civil War. These crackers consisted of nothing more than flour, water, and salt. They were simple and inexpensive to make in very large quantities. However, these crackers became almost rock solid once they went stale.
  3. 5. formally enroll in the army or to call roll
  4. 7. A Northerner; someone loyal to the Federal government of the United States.
  5. 9. A flag or a banner carried into battle on a pole
  6. 11. A sailor (sometimes a child) who carried explosives from the ship’s magazine to the ship’s guns.
  7. 12. for a Northerner who opposed the war effort.
  8. 14. A cannon which fired hollow projectiles and generally lighter and shorter than its solid-shot cousins. A howitzer’s projectiles had a smaller powder charge. Also, canister projectiles contained more small balls that other types of canister.Howitzers were useful in defending fortifications and causing disorder within an attacking force.
  9. 16. Loyal to the government of the United States. Also known a Union, Yankee, or Northern
  10. 18. call the North or the United States, the Union was the portion othe country that remained loyal to the Federal government during the Civil War.
  11. 19. Freedom from slavery.
  12. 20. metal blade, like a long knife or short sword, that could be attached to the end of a musket or rifle-musket and used as a spear or pike I hard-to-hand combat.
Down
  1. 1. political party generally against slavery and its expansion into the territories. The Whig Party had basically been swallowed by the Democrat and Republican parties by the time of the Civil War.
  2. 2. ship protected by iron armor.
  3. 3. who wanted to end slavery during the civil war
  4. 4. A tern used to describe the time in American history directly after the Civil War during which the South was “reconstructed” by the North after its loss in the War.
  5. 5. boundary surveyed in the 1760s that ran between Pennsylvania to the North and Delaware, Maryland and West Virginia to the South. It became a symbolic division between free states and slave states.
  6. 6. cuts (trenches) dug out of the earth with the dirt piled up into a mound in front; used for defense.
  7. 7. state of Bondage in which African Americans (and some Native Americans) were owned by other people, usually white, and forced to labor on their behalf.
  8. 8. A new wary of conducting war appeared during the Civil War. Instead of focusing only on military targets, armies conducting total war destroyed homes and crops to demoralize and undermine the civilian base of the enemy’s war effort, ( Sherman in Georgia or Sheridan in the Shenandoah Valley, or example.)
  9. 10. Intestinal disease causing severe diarrhea. Dysentery was a leading cause of deaths by disease.
  10. 11. Actively attacking someone
  11. 13. to the Confederacy – Also a southern or Rebel.
  12. 15. Withdrawal from the Federal government of the United States. Southern state, feeling persecuted by the North, seceded by voting to separate from the Union
  13. 17. branch of the military in which soldiers traveled and fought on foot