Civil War Vocabulary
Across
- 3. African American religious folk song
- 6. device using electric signals to send messages
- 7. unfair treatment based on prejudice
- 9. ability to read and write
- 13. plantation manager
- 17. trade of enslaved people within the United States
- 19. extreme shortage of food
- 21. system of cooperation to aid and house enslaved people who escaped
- 23. to formally join the military
- 24. person who is running away from legal authority
Down
- 1. system of sending messages using dots and dashes
- 2. unfair opinion not based on facts
- 4. strategy of bringing war to the entire society
- 5. work stoppage by employees as a form of protest
- 7. system of selecting people for military service
- 8. rules focusing on behavior or punishment of enslaved people
- 10. reward or payment
- 11. farmer who owns a small farm
- 12. paper money from northern states
- 14. person opposed to immigration
- 15. conflict between citizens of the same country
- 16. soldier who is killed, wounded, or missing in battle
- 18. place to store weapons and military equipment
- 20. states between the north and south
- 22. to withdraw/break away from a nation