Civil War

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  1. 2. A smoothbore firearm fired from the shoulder. Thrust from exploding powder shoots the bullet forward like a chest pass in basketball.
  2. 3. Large logs painted to look like cannons; used to fool the enemy into thinking a position was stronger than it really was.
  3. 5. Lived in a log cabin, the 16th president
  4. 7. A soldier who served the officers of his regiment by carrying mail or messages.
  5. 8. A term often used to describe the United States of America before the outbreak of the Civil War.
  6. 10. Someone who wishes to abolish or get rid of slavery.
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  1. 1. Another term for slavery in the South.
  2. 4. a prominent leader in the American abolitionist movement in the decades preceding the Civil
  3. 6. The states of Maryland, Delaware, Kentucky, and Missouri. Although these states did not officially join the Confederacy, many of their citizens supported the South.
  4. 9. Also called the North or the United States