Civil War

1. Term for a Northerner who opposed the war effort.
3. A term used to describe people who supported the Union
5. A nickname for southern whites who supported the Republican Party.
7. The rebuilding of war torn southern states so they could be readmitted into the Union after the Civil War.
8. A Northerner; someone loyal to the Federal government of the United States. Also, Union, Federal, or Northern.
9. he cruel killing of a number of helpless or unresisting people.
11. Putting the local interests and customs ahead of the entire country.
12. The name given to the states that stayed loyal to the United States government. Also called the North.
15. An overwhelming, advancing force that crushes or seems to crush everything in its path.

2. An executive order from President Abraham Lincoln stating that the enslaved in the Confederate states were to be set free.
4. A large farm in the southern United States. Before the Civil War many of the workers on plantations were enslaved.
6. A northerner who moved to the South during the reconstruction in order to become rich.
10. A person who wanted to eliminate or "abolish" slavery.
13. The science of growing crops or raising livestock; farming.
14. A nickname given to people in the South supporting the Confederate States.