Across
- 1. during the Civil War, a riot involving hundreds of women in Richmond, Virginia, who sought food and other goods that were becoming scarce in the South as Union forces cut off key parts of the region's economy
- 6. a man or woman who has been freed from slavery
- 8. in the Civil War, the first entirely African American regiment of the Union Army
- 9. a government order that restricts or prohibits trade of a particular good or with a particular nation
Down
- 2. a type of gun used during the Civil War that had improved power and accuracy
- 3. a system of requiring by law that all people who meet certain criteria, such as age and gender, report for military duty
- 4. a series of deadly riots that took place in U.S. cities in 1863 to protest the newly established military draft
- 5. during the Civil War, a nickname Republicans used to describe those Northerners, mostly Democrats, who opposed the war and were sympathetic to the South
- 7. the right of a person being detained to appear in court so that a judge may determine whether the person has been imprisoned lawfully