Causes of and events leading to the Civil War

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Across
  1. 2. - A soldier that is wounded or killed during bInfantry - Soldiers that fight and travel by foot
  2. 4. - Large caliber firearms like cannons and mortars.
  3. 8. - A term meaning "before war". It was often used to describe the United States before the Civil War.
  4. 10. - A person who wanted to eliminate or "abolish" slavery.
  5. 12. - When a person is murdered for political reasons.
  6. 14. - An attempt to stop people and supplies from going in or out of a port.
  7. 15. - The side of an army or military unit.
Down
  1. 1. - A long blade or knife attached to the end of a musket. Soldiers would use it like a spear in close combat.
  2. 3. - A large farm in the southern United States. Before the Civil War many of the workers on plantations were enslaved.
  3. 5. - A nickname given to people in the South supporting the Confederate States.
  4. 6. - The rebuilding of war torn southern states so they could be readmitted into the Union after the Civil War.
  5. 7. - A nickname for southern whites who supported the Republican Party.
  6. 9. - A long gun with a smooth bore that soldiers shot from the shoulder.
  7. 11. Line - A boundary or border that split the free states from the slave states. It went between Pennsylvania to the north and Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware to the south.
  8. 13. - The northern states of the United States, also called the Union.