Across
- 1. The science of growing crops or raising livestock; farming
- 3. A breech-loading, single-shot, rifle-barreled gun primarily used by cavalry troops
- 6. The major political party in America most sympathetic to states rights and willing to tolerate the spread of slavery to the territories
- 8. the rights and powers held by individual US states rather than by the federal government
- 9. Something that makes a defensive position stronger, like high mounds of earth to protect cannon or spiky breastworks to slow an enemy charge
- 13. A boundary surveyed in the 1760s that ran between Pennsylvania to the North and Delaware, Maryland and (West) Virginia to the South
- 14. the action of becoming larger or more extensive
- 15. A soldier who was wounded, killed, or missing in action
- 17. Cannon or other large caliber firearms; a branch of the army armed with cannon
- 18. Troops, like the National Guard, who are only called out to defend the land in an emergency
- 20. a fixed point in time
- 22. describes the period of repeated outbreaks of violent guerrilla warfare between pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces following the creation of the new territory of Kansas in 1854
- 23. The cruel killing of a number of helpless or unresisting people
- 25. Used as a noun, a “flank” is the end (or side) of a military position, also called a “wing”
- 28. Manufacturing goods from raw materials, such as cloth from cotton or machine parts from iron
Down
- 2. A two-wheeled cart that carried one ammunition chest for an artillery piece
- 4. Someone who wishes to abolish or get rid of slavery
- 5. A branch of the military mounted on horseback
- 7. also known as the North
- 10. An unrifled artillery gun which was designed to launch shells over walls and enemy fortifications
- 11. A sudden, open, unconcealed attack upon a fortified position with the intent of capturing it before its defenders could mount an effective defense
- 12. condition in which one human being was owned by another
- 15. known as the south during the civil war
- 16. the action of withdrawing formally from membership of a federation or body, especially a political state
- 19. was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 16th president of the United States from 1861 until his assassination in 1865
- 21. The largest organizational group of soldiers, made up of one or more corps
- 24. A branch of the military in which soldiers traveled and fought on foot
- 26. To lie in wait for an unexpected attack
- 27. Escaped slaves who fled to the Union lines for protection