Civil War Vocabulary

2. The name given to the states that stayed loyal to the United States government. Also called the North.
6. A large farm in the southern United States. Before the Civil War, many of the workers on plantations were enslaved.
11. A nickname given to southern soldiers and others from the Confederate States.
14. A person who wanted to eliminate slavery
16. A canvas bag that many Civil War soldiers used to carry their food.
17. A boundary or border that split the free states from the slave states. It went between Pennsylvania to the north and Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware to the south.
20. Crackers eaten by Civil War soldiers made from flour, water, and salt.
21. A long blade attached to the end of a musket
22. When the southern states chose to leave the United States and to no longer be a part of the country.
23. A soldier who is wounded or killed during battle.
24. Trenches made of dirt and logs to protect solders while firing their weapons

1. A term meaning "before war"
3. A warship that is fully covered and protected by iron.
4. This law required that enslaved people in free states be returned to their owners.
5. An order from President Abraham Lincoln stating that the enslaved in the South were to be set free.
7. The part of the United States that was called the Union.
8. Large caliber firearms like cannons and mortars
9. The part of the U.S. that seceded to form the Confederate States of America or the Confederacy.
10. A nickname for the South.
12. Soldiers who fight and travel on foot.
13. An attempt to stop people and supplies from going in or out of a port
15. A nickname for Union soldiers as well as people from the North.
18. The rebuilding of war-torn southern states so they could be readmitted into the Union after the Civil War.
19. states. These states were slave states that did not leave the Union.