Civil War Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 6. Confederate general who surrendered at Appomattox Courthouse
  2. 7. A Network of secret routes and safe houses established in the United States used by enslaved African-Americans to escape into free states and Canada.
  3. 8. The forced enlistment of people into the armed forces of a country.
  4. 10. Part of the Compromise of 1850. Made it law that escaped enslaved people had to be returned to their owners, even if they were in a free state.
  5. 11. The North or Northern States; States that remained loyal to the national government during the Civil War.
  6. 12. (1863) Declared that all enslaved people in rebelling states must be set free.
  7. 14. general of the Union Army
  8. 15. Slave states that did not secede from the Union.
Down
  1. 1. Southern States or Confederate States of America who seceded from the Union in the Civil War.
  2. 2. To formally withdraw from something.
  3. 3. President of the Confederate States
  4. 4. Speech given by Abraham Lincoln after the Battle of Gettysburg, which was a turning point in the Civil War.
  5. 5. President of the United States during the Civil War
  6. 8. A war between citizens of the same country
  7. 9. Soldiers killed or wounded in battle.
  8. 13. Involves the destruction of all enemy targets, supplies, and infrastructure.