CIVIL WAR CROSSWORD

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Across
  1. 6. A long blade or knife attached to the end of a musket. Soldiers would use it like a spear in close combat.
  2. 7. A nickname given to people in the South supporting the Confederate States.
  3. 9. Large caliber firearms like cannons and mortars.
  4. 12. When a person is murdered for political reasons.
  5. 14. A term meaning "before war". It was often used to describe the United States before the Civil War.
  6. 15. The northern states of the United States, also called the Union.
  7. 16. A boundary or border that split the free states from the slave states. It went between Pennsylvania to the north and Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware to the south.
Down
  1. 1. A long gun with a smooth bore that soldiers shot from the shoulder.
  2. 2. An army of citizens used during emergencies.
  3. 3. A soldier that is wounded or killed during battle.
  4. 4. These states were slave states that did not leave the Union, but largely supported the cause of the Confederates. They included Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, and Delaware.
  5. 5. A decision made by the Supreme Court that said Congress could not outlaw slavery and that people of African descent were not necessarily U.S. citizens.Fugitive Slave Law A law passed by Congress in 1850 that said escaped enslaved people in free states had to be returned to their owners.
  6. 8. An attempt to stop people and supplies from going in or out of a port.
  7. 10. A large farm in the southern United States. Before the Civil War many of the workers on plantations were enslaved.
  8. 11. A person who wanted to eliminate or "abolish" slavery.
  9. 13. The rebuilding of war torn southern states so they could be readmitted into the Union after the Civil War.