civil war crossword

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  1. 5. A large farm in the southern United States. Before the Civil War many of the workers on plantations were enslaved
  2. 6. A nickname given to people in the South supporting the Confederate States
  3. 8. A nickname for people from the North as well as Union soldiers.
  4. 11. A term used to describe people who supported the Union
  5. 12. An attempt to stop people and supplies from going in or out of a port
  6. 15. 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
  7. 18. he was the president for the confederacy states
  8. 19. A long gun with a smooth bore that soldiers shot from the shoulder.
  9. 20. A law passed by Congress in 1850 that said escaped enslaved people in free states had to be returned to their owners.
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  1. 1. An executive order from President Abraham Lincoln stating that the enslaved in the Confederate states were to be set free.
  2. 2. The name given to the states that stayed loyal to the United States government. Also called the North.
  3. 3. Another name for the Confederate States of America or the South. The Confederacy was a group of states that left the United States to form their own country.
  4. 4. He was the Confederate general in charge of the Army of Northern Virginia and at the end of the war Supreme Commander of remaining Confederate forces.
  5. 7. A person who wanted to eliminate or "abolish" slavery.
  6. 9. was the president during the civil war
  7. 10. A term meaning "before war". It was often used to describe the United States before the Civil War.
  8. 13. The northern states of the United States, also called the Union.
  9. 14. When the southern states chose to leave the United States and to no longer be a part of the country.
  10. 16. A nickname for the South
  11. 17. A nickname for the Confederate States of America or the Confederacy