The American Civil War

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Across
  1. 5. The northern states that remained loyal to the federal government during the Civil War
  2. 6. Large-caliber guns such as cannons and howitzers, used heavily on Civil War battlefields
  3. 8. Land fought over by Union and Confederate forces
  4. 9. Abraham Lincoln held this office during the Civil War
  5. 10. The act of formally withdrawing from a nation or federation, as the Southern states did in 1860-61.
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  1. 1. A person who campaigned to end slavery, such as Frederick Douglass or William Lloyd Garrison
  2. 2. A person held as property and forced to work without pay
  3. 3. A formal change or addition to the Constitution, like the 13th, which ended slavery
  4. 4. Members of a religious group, also called the Society of Friends, who were early opponents of slavery
  5. 7. The group of eleven Southern states that broke away to form their own government