Civil War Crossword

2. Slave states that bordered between the Union and Confederacy and did not secede from the Union
3. “All persons held as slaves within the rebellious states are, and henceforward shall be free”
7. The period before the Civil War characterized by the polarization between abolitionists and supporters of slavery
11. People who organized to end the practice of slavery
13. The government of the 11 southern slave states that seceded from the Union
14. The remaining part of the US government who fought against the confederacy
15. A loyalty to one’s own region instead of the country as a whole

1. The border separating free states from slave states before the war
4. A term by southerners to describe the people of the Union during the war
5. A soldier who fought for the South during the war
6. A very dense cracker that was used to feed soldiers during the war
8. Withdraw from the country
9. The Union naval strategy to prevent the Confederacy from trading
10. A large estate that specializes on growing cash crops
12. A steam-powered warship protected by iron armor, which replaced the weaker wooden ships before it