civilwar crossword
Across
- 3. a act in judging someone for there race
- 5. A soldier that is wounded or killed during battle
- 6. a place that showed the start of the amercian civil war
- 8. was the general for the union
- 10. Promoting the interests of a section or region (such as the North or the South) instead of the entire country
- 11. When the southern states chose to leave the United States and to no longer be a part of the country
- 15. military strategy proposed by Union General Winfield Scott early in the American Civil War
- 16. Another name for the Confederate States of America or the South. The Confederacy was a group of states that left the United States to form their own country
- 17. These states were slave states that did not leave the Union, but largely supported the cause of the Confederates. They included Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, and Delaware
- 18. A person who wanted to eliminate or "abolish" slavery
- 19. was the action of forcing someone to manual labor and do stuff for them
Down
- 1. a group of black slaves tat served in the war
- 2. A large farm in the southern United States. Before the Civil War many of the workers on plantations were enslaved
- 4. A law passed by Congress in 1850 that said escaped enslaved people in free states had to be returned to their owners
- 7. was the president during the civil war.
- 9. An attempt to stop people and supplies from going in or out of a port
- 12. A term meaning "before war". It was often used to describe the United States before the Civil War
- 13. was the general for the confedarcy.
- 14. A long gun with a smooth bore that soldiers shot from the shoulder