History Crossword

3. a person killed, wounded, captured, or missing in a war.
5. a warship covered with iron plates for extra protection.
8. the act of freeing someone from slavery or control.
11. the United States and the Northern states that stayed loyal to the federal government during the Civil War.
12. the period, after the Civil War when the South was rebuilt and the Southern states were brought back into the Union.
14. a military strategy of surrounding a place and cutting off supplies to force it to surrender.
15. a system that forces certain people to join the military.
19. a system in which people are treated as property and forced to work without pay or freedom.
20. strong loyalty to one region of a country (like North or South) rather than to the whole nation.

1. a slave state that did not leave the Union (such as Kentucky or Maryland).
2. a style of war that targets the enemy’s army, suppliend sometimes civilian property to weaken their ability to fight.
4. a person who worked to end slavery.
6. the act of leaving or breaking away from a country or organization.
7. the idea that states have certain powers and rights that the federal government cannot control.
9. the group of Southern states that left the Union and formed their own government.
10. using ships or troops to stop people or supplies from entering or leaving a place.
13. to officially leave or withdraw from a country or union.
16. Address a short, famous speech by Abraham Lincoln in 1863 that honored fallen soldiers and explained the purpose of the war.
17. Proclamation – the 1863 order by President Lincoln that declared enslaved people in Confederate states to be free.
18. Amendment the change to the U.S. Constitution that officially ended slavery in the United States.