Civil War Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 7. An attempt to stop people and supplies from going in or out of a port.
  2. 8. When the southern states chose to leave the United States and to no longer be a part of the country.
  3. 9. A nickname for southern whites who supported the Republican Party.
  4. 10. A nickname for people from the North as well as Union soldiers.
  5. 12. The rebuilding of war torn southern states so they could be readmitted into the Union after the Civil War.
  6. 13. A nickname given to people in the South supporting the Confederate States.
Down
  1. 1. A warship that is fully covered and protected by iron cladding.
  2. 2. A term meaning "before war".
  3. 3. A northerner who moved to the South during the reconstruction in order to become rich.
  4. 4. A person who wanted to eliminate or "abolish" slavery.
  5. 5. When a person is murdered for political reasons.
  6. 6. Slave states that did not leave the Union.
  7. 11. A nickname for northerners who were against the Civil War.