Across
- 2. a long blade or knife at the end of a musket
- 8. a law passed by congress in 1850 that said escaped enslaved people in free states had to be returned their
- 11. Putting the local interests and customs ahead of the entire country.
- 12. a nickname for United States paper money that was first used in 1862
- 14. when a person is murdered for political reasons
- 15. An attempt to stop people and supplies from going in or out of a port.
- 17. the part of the war fought in the Eastern United States including Virgina,West Virgina,Maryland, and Pennysylvania
- 20. large caliber like firearms like cannons and mortars
Down
- 1. these states were slave states that did not leave the union
- 3. a nickname from people from the north as well as union soldiers
- 4. a person who want to abloish or eliminate slavery
- 5. a canvas bag that many cival wars soldiers used to carry food
- 6. a term used to describe people who supported the union
- 7. a side of an army or military unit
- 9. A soldier that is wounded or killed during battle.
- 10. A northerner who moved to the South during the reconstruction in order to become rich.
- 13. a nickname for the confederate states of america or the confederacy
- 16. a term meaning "before war" often used to describe the united state before the cival war
- 18. a nickname for the south
- 19. an ankle high shoe worn by soldiers in the cival war