History Crossword
Across
- 3. a person killed, wounded, captured, or missing in a war.
- 5. a warship covered with iron plates for extra protection.
- 8. the act of freeing someone from slavery or control.
- 11. the United States and the Northern states that stayed loyal to the federal government during the Civil War.
- 12. the period, after the Civil War when the South was rebuilt and the Southern states were brought back into the Union.
- 14. a military strategy of surrounding a place and cutting off supplies to force it to surrender.
- 15. a system that forces certain people to join the military.
- 19. a system in which people are treated as property and forced to work without pay or freedom.
- 20. strong loyalty to one region of a country (like North or South) rather than to the whole nation.
Down
- 1. a slave state that did not leave the Union (such as Kentucky or Maryland).
- 2. a style of war that targets the enemy’s army, suppliend sometimes civilian property to weaken their ability to fight.
- 4. a person who worked to end slavery.
- 6. the act of leaving or breaking away from a country or organization.
- 7. the idea that states have certain powers and rights that the federal government cannot control.
- 9. the group of Southern states that left the Union and formed their own government.
- 10. using ships or troops to stop people or supplies from entering or leaving a place.
- 13. to officially leave or withdraw from a country or union.
- 16. Address a short, famous speech by Abraham Lincoln in 1863 that honored fallen soldiers and explained the purpose of the war.
- 17. Proclamation – the 1863 order by President Lincoln that declared enslaved people in Confederate states to be free.
- 18. Amendment the change to the U.S. Constitution that officially ended slavery in the United States.