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2. Someone who wishes to abolish or get rid of slavery.
5. Resisting or protecting against attack from someone.
6. Blue Flag Extremely popular Confederate song named after the first flag of the Confederacy, which had one white star on a blue background. The lyrics listed each state in the order in which they seceded from the Union
8. Freedom from slavery
10. A state of bondage in which African Americans (and some Native Americans) were owned by other people, usually white, and forced to labor on their behalf.
11. Term for a Northerner who opposed the war effort.
13. Land within the mainland boundaries of the country that had not yet become a state by 1861.

1. line A boundary surveyed in the 1760s that ran between Pennsylvania to the North and Delaware, Maryland and (West) Virginia to the South. It became a symbolic division between free states and slave states.
3. Also called the North or the United States, the Union was the portion of the country that remained loyal to the Federal government during the Civil War.
4. Loyal to the government of the United States. Also known as Union, Yankee, or Northern.
7. The science of growing crops or raising livestock; farming
9. Loyal to the Confederacy. Also Southern or Rebel
12. States The states of Maryland, Delaware, Kentucky, and Missouri. Although these states did not officially join the Confederacy, many of their citizens supported the South