Civil War Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 1. Huge farms that were worked by slaves
  2. 3. Northerners who moved to the South after the war, in an attempt to get rich or gain political power
  3. 6. Was formed on February 8, 1861, by seven slave states: South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas
  4. 9. The infantry in the American Civil War comprised foot-soldiers who fought primarily with small arms and carried the brunt of the fighting on battlefields across the United States
  5. 11. Warships designed to be impervious to enemy shot and shell by virtue of their iron-armored wooden hulls
  6. 12. The term for a soldiers backpack
  7. 14. A basic wheat cracker that did not decay easily and could survive rough march’s
  8. 15. A network of secret routes and safe houses that helped slaves escape
Down
  1. 2. Large caliber gun used in warfare in land
  2. 4. A speech that President Lincoln made that declared that all slaves were now free
  3. 5. A bolt-action rifle that was used
  4. 7. The North, the U.S.A
  5. 8. A slang term for U.S. paper dollars
  6. 10. The most common type of shoe worn by Civil War soldiers
  7. 13. A person who favors the abolition of a practice or institution with the main example of slavery