Across
- 6. A long blade or knife attached to the end of a musket. Soldiers would use it like a spear in close combat.
- 7. A nickname given to people in the South supporting the Confederate States.
- 9. Large caliber firearms like cannons and mortars.
- 12. When a person is murdered for political reasons.
- 14. A term meaning "before war". It was often used to describe the United States before the Civil War.
- 15. The northern states of the United States, also called the Union.
- 16. A boundary or border that split the free states from the slave states. It went between Pennsylvania to the north and Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware to the south.
Down
- 1. A long gun with a smooth bore that soldiers shot from the shoulder.
- 2. An army of citizens used during emergencies.
- 3. A soldier that is wounded or killed during battle.
- 4. These states were slave states that did not leave the Union, but largely supported the cause of the Confederates. They included Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, and Delaware.
- 5. A decision made by the Supreme Court that said Congress could not outlaw slavery and that people of African descent were not necessarily U.S. citizens.Fugitive Slave Law A law passed by Congress in 1850 that said escaped enslaved people in free states had to be returned to their owners.
- 8. An attempt to stop people and supplies from going in or out of a port.
- 10. A large farm in the southern United States. Before the Civil War many of the workers on plantations were enslaved.
- 11. A person who wanted to eliminate or "abolish" slavery.
- 13. The rebuilding of war torn southern states so they could be readmitted into the Union after the Civil War.