Across
- 4. the side that was made up of the northern states.
- 7. a submarine of the Confederates, first combat submarine to sink an enemy warship.
- 9. a system of dots and dashes that represent the alphabet, which was used by Lincoln that changed the way battles were fought.
- 10. a system of enforced servitude in which some people are owned by other people. This was the southern Lifestyle.
- 11. a place where ships load and unload their goods
- 13. a war between opposing groups of citizens of the same country.
- 14. an act or means of sealing off a place to prevent goods or people from entering or leaving.
- 16. a person who wanted to end slavery in the United States
- 17. a place that troops stay, sometimes fought over during wars.
- 18. a person who is not in the military
- 20. a policy of not taking sides in a conflict, France did this for the Civil war.
- 22. a slave who sued for their freedom after they argued that they became free when they lived in a free territory. (They caused the fugitive slave act)
- 23. a Union general whose troops won several important battles on southern soil
Down
- 1. a Confederate general who defeated the Union at the Second Battle of Bull Run. Although he eventually surrendered to a certain Union general, thus ending the war.
- 2. the election Lincoln won that began to cause unsettlement in the southern states which led to succession which led to the Civil War.
- 3. the side that was made up of the southern states.
- 5. the president of the Union during the Civil War and emancipated the slaves.
- 6. the president of the Confederacy during the Civil War
- 8. the fact or process of being set free from legal, social, or political restrictions; liberation. Abraham Lincoln did this for slaves.
- 11. a large farm worked by slaves, the main source of economy for the south.
- 12. a military force that is raised from the civil population to supplement a regular army in an emergency.
- 15. the first battle of the Civil War, where the first shots of the Civil War were fired.
- 19. a law that made it a crime to help runaway slaves; allowed for the arrest of escaped slaves in areas where slavery was illegal and required their return to slaveholders
- 21. the formal withdrawal of states or regions from a nation
- 22. a law requiring people of a certain age to serve in the military.
