Civil War Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 2. a line that separates the territory of one group from that of another
  2. 4. when someone has been forced into a system where he or she works for no pay and can be bought and sold as property
  3. 8. a large farm where crops are grown and the people who tend it live on the land
  4. 9. states that fought against the Union during the Civil War
  5. 10. war a war fought between two groups or regions of a nation
  6. 12. skill in growing plants for food; farming
  7. 14. African Americans who had been enslaved before the Civil War
  8. 15. term used to describe the Union soldiers
  9. 16. a business that makes a product or offers a service that can be sold to other people
  10. 18. freedom from slavery
  11. 20. the states united under the Constitution; term associated with the Northern states during the Civil War
  12. 21. a system in which people could be bought and sold and forced to work with no pay
  13. 23. state a state that did not allow slavery
  14. 24. a type of religious song made famous by the blacks of the South
Down
  1. 1. for a state to break away from the rest of the country
  2. 2. an attempt to stop all traffic from entering or leaving an area so goods cannot be shipped or supplies bought
  3. 3. to murder for a political reason
  4. 5. adding more territory to a country
  5. 6. Railroad a secret network of men and women who led enslaved African Americans to freedom before the Civil War
  6. 7. Republican a congressman who believed that the national government should do everything necessary to protect the rights of African Americans
  7. 10. an agreement in which each side of an argument gives up something it wants in order to stop fighting
  8. 11. an official announcement
  9. 12. person who believed slavery was wrong and fought to make it illegal
  10. 13. to fight against people in power, particularly a government
  11. 17. state a state that permitted slavery
  12. 19. an organization of groups that band together for a purpose
  13. 22. the man on plantations in the South who was in charge of enslaved people working in the fields
  14. 24. when an army surrounds a city, keeps our supplies, and tries to force the inhabitants to give up