Across
- 6. believed slavery should be permitted in any US territory
- 8. the northern states
- 11. loyalty to one's own region or section of the country rather than the country as a whole
- 12. a ship covered in iron armor
- 14. northern democrats who opposed the abolition of slavery
- 15. the withdrawal of states from the country
- 17. states that supported slavery but did not leave the union
- 18. bloodiest battle of the civil war; 22,700 casualties
- 19. general of the union
- 20. elected president in 1860; signed Emancipation Proclamation
Down
- 1. the practice of forcing people to work without pay
- 2. battle that officially started the civil war
- 3. someone who wishes to get rid of slavery
- 4. American war from 1861-1865
- 5. a cracker eaten by soldiers made from flour and water
- 7. served as the president of the confederacy from 1861-1865
- 9. battle that turned the war around in the North's favor
- 10. the southern states that seceded from the union
- 13. general of the confederacy
- 16. an escaped slave who joined the Union army