Across
- 2. a person who wants to stop or abolish slavery
- 4. slave states that border with the free states during the United States Civil War
- 8. a machine for separating cotton from its seeds
- 12. the withdrawal of eleven southern states from the Union in 1860, leading to the Civil War
- 13. showed that the Union could stand against the Confederate army
- 14. showed how badly both union and confederate soldiers needed training
- 15. cut off trading with other countries
Down
- 1. the network used by enslaved black Americans to obtain their freedom
- 3. commanded the Army of Northern Virginia, the most successful of the Southern armies during the American Civil War
- 5. 16th President of the United States
- 6. 1865 as a result of the union victory at Antietam
- 7. an alliance of people or groups formed for an forbidden purpose
- 8. A war between the north and the south over slavery
- 9. a series of violent civil confrontations in Kansas Territory
- 10. the crime of betraying one's country
- 11. military strategy proposed by Union General Winfield Scott early in the American Civil War