Civil War Crossword

1. A military blockade of an enemy town or position in order to force it to surrender
5. In the Clay vs. Calhoun debate, one of John Calhoun's demands was for _______ slaves to be returned to their owner
8. A legal case brought by as person or group against another to settle a dispute between them
9. The belief that one race is superior to another
11. A person who dies for his or her beliefs
12. A person who takes advantage of a crisis to make a profit is called a ________
13. A policy or attitude that denies equal rights and treatment to certain groups of people
14. People who were not int the war, worked on farms and labored in factories to support the war effort
15. An all-out war that affects civilians at home as well as soldiers in combat
16. In John Brown's raid he planned to raid a Federal ________
17. Lincoln wanted to stop the riots and other "disloyal practices", so one way he did so was by denying _____________
18. A war between people of the same country
19. In 1861, to pay for the war, Congress established the nation's first __________ on people's earnings

1. To withdraw from membership in a group
2. In 1863, Congress passed a ______ law that required all able-bodied males between the age of 20-45 to serve in the military if they were called
3. Loyalty to a state or section rather than to the whole country
4. A rise in prices and decrease in the value of money
6. At Pottawatomie Creek both North and South engaged in ___________
7. Abraham Lincoln decided to _________ enslaved African Americans in the Confederacy
10. A rule by the army instead of the elected government