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3. The United States of America during the Civil War, specifically the northern states that remained loyal to the federal government.
4. A continuous attack with bombs or artillery shells.
9. A federal fort located in Charleston, South Carolina, where the first shots of the Civil War were fired in April 1861.
11. To Legally separate from a country.
13. The system used to elect the President of the United States, in which voters in each state choose electors who then cast votes for the president.
14. A northern state that remained in the Union during the Civil War
15. A war fought between groups of people within the same country.

1. To stop fighting and give up to an enemy or opponent.
2. The 16th president of the United States, who led the Union during the Civil War.
5. Extra soldiers or supplies sent to support an army or military operation.
6. A southern state that seceded from the Union.
7. An act of armed resistance to an established government or ruler.
8. The group of southern states that left the United States between 1860 and 1861.
10. A war between the United States and Great Britain, The reason the US built forts along the coast of the United States.
12. The president of the Confederate States of America.