Civil War Vocabulary
Across
- 2. To withdraw from or formally leave.
- 4. Law that required that slaves be returned to their owners even if they had escaped to a free state.
- 7. Government based on the consent of the people. The people of an area vote and have a say in goverment.
- 8. Soldiers who fought on horseback.
- 10. The Southern States during the Civil War.
- 13. Network of secret routes and safe houses established in the United States during the early to mid-19th century to help slaves escape to freedom.
- 14. Someone who wants to abolish or get rid of something.
Down
- 1. Willful killing, by a sudden, secret, or planned attack, of a person—especially if prominent or important.
- 3. Large scale farms that specialize in cash crops.
- 5. Name given to the Northern States during the Civil War.
- 6. A war between citizens of the same country.
- 9. Period of time before war.
- 11. Invented by Eli Whitney to separate seeds from the plants fibers.
- 12. The process of being set free.