Civil War Terms

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Across
  1. 1. The officer who was responsible for supplying clothing, supplies and food for the troops
  2. 7. The major political party in America most sympathetic to states rights and willing to tolerate the spread of slavery to the territories.
  3. 9. Someone who wishes to abolish or get rid of slavery.
  4. 11. The effort by the North to keep ships from entering or leaving Southern ports.
  5. 13. A branch of the military using ships to conduct warfare.
  6. 14. A series of military operations that form a distinct phase of the War
Down
  1. 2. A political party created in the 1850s to prevent the spread of slavery to the territories.
  2. 3. Freedom from slavery
  3. 4. Troops, like the National Guard, who are only called out to defend the land in an emergency
  4. 5. The name of the states that seceded from the Union
  5. 6. A political party generally against slavery and its expansion into the territories.
  6. 8. A state of bondage in which African Americans were owned by other people, usually white, and forced to labor on their behalf.
  7. 10. the people of each territory should be able to decide for themselves if slavery should be allowed in their territory when it became a state
  8. 12. the portion of the country that remained loyal to the Federal government during the Civil War.