Civil War crossword puzzle
Across
- 2. Carolina/what state Seceded from the Union on December 20, 1860
- 6. codes/laws to control the behavior of slaves
- 7. Coffin/who helped more than 2,000 slaves escape to freedom
- 8. battle started at 3:10 pm
- 15. regard for sectional or local interests; regional or local spirit, prejudice
- 16. Clay/who is called the Great Compromiser
- 17. C. Calhoun/who was the leader of the Southerners
Down
- 1. were called the Army of the Northern Virginia
- 3. Cinque/who told the African Americans "We may as well die in trying to be free."
- 4. state/a state in which slavery was prohibited
- 5. Turner/who was an American black slave leader who died by being hung
- 9. Tubman/U.S. abolitionist: escaped slave and leader of the Underground Railroad; served as a Union scout during Civil War
- 10. rights/the rights belonging to the various states, especially with reference to the strict interpretation of the Constitution
- 11. railroad/a secret system that was organized to help enslaved people escape from the South and get to freedom
- 12. were some women during the war
- 13. were called the Army of the Potomac
- 14. Coffin/who was a white teacher who had opened schools for slave