Civil War Terms

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Across
  1. 5. Laws designed to control the behavior of slaves
  2. 8. Statement by President Lincoln in 1863 freeing all slaves in Confederate states while still being at war
  3. 9. Union strategy for defeating the Confederacy
  4. 10. Northern states that stayed with America
  5. 11. Southern states that seceded from America
  6. 12. State between the Union and Confederacy that allowed slavery but remained in Union
  7. 13. State that did not allow slavery
  8. 15. State that allowed slavery
Down
  1. 1. First major battle of the Civil War, on July 16, 1861
  2. 2. Law that requires men of certain age to serve in the military if called
  3. 3. System used by escaping slaves to escape to freedom
  4. 4. War between people in the same country
  5. 6. Shutting off an area by troops or ships to keep people and supplies from moving in or out
  6. 7. Union victory over Confederate forces in the Civil War in 1862 that was fought near Sharpsburg, Maryland
  7. 14. To break away from a group