Civil War Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 2. ships whose sides were covered by thick plates of metal to protect them from cannon balls
  2. 3. a person killed or wounded in battle
  3. 8. a warship whose sides were plated with thick iron plates to protect the ship from enemy cannon fire
  4. 9. slave states that did not secede from the Union
  5. 11. preventing ships from entering or leaving enemy ports
  6. 12. another word that was used to refer to the Union
  7. 13. northerners who supported the Confederacy
  8. 15. destroying the enemy's ability to fight by destroying civilian and economic resources as well as military resources
  9. 16. a system of required military service
  10. 17. term used to refer to paper money printed by the United States government during the Civil War
Down
  1. 1. ships used by the Confederacy to evade the Union blockade of southern ports
  2. 4. term applied to escaped slaves who reached the protection of the Union army
  3. 5. southerners' belief that Britain would support the Confederacy because of its need for southern cotton
  4. 6. a general increase in the prices of goods
  5. 7. another word that was used to refer to the Confederacy
  6. 10. cash paid to someone who enlisted in the Union army
  7. 14. to free someone from slavery