Across
- 2. A military blockade of a city or fortified place to compel it to surrender
- 4. The murder of an important person
- 7. A slave state that remained in the Union after Southern States had seceded
- 12. A person who wanted to eliminate or "abolish" slavery.
- 13. Constitutional Amendment that abolished slavery in the US
- 14. Sumter A sea fort in Charleston, South Carolina
- 15. Decision Supreme Court decision that ruled slaves were not citizens but property Abolitionist A person who wanted to eliminate or "abolish" slavery
- 16. Conscription legally requires people to join the army
Down
- 1. A term to refer to bloody events in Kansas as the state decided issue's of slavery Preserve the Union Lincoln's main goal in fighting the Civil War
- 3. Abraham lincoln’s killer
- 5. An attempt to stop people and supplies from going in or out of a port
- 6. A soldier that is wounded or killed during battle
- 8. The Unions plan to divide the South and choke off supply lines
- 9. A cruel systems of white people making African Americans do working for nothing Confederacy Another name for the Confederate States of America or the South
- 10. The name given for the states that remained loyal to the U.S.A
- 11. The document that freed the southern slaves
