Vocabulary Civil War

4. A person who wants to stop or abolish slavery.
7. A bag similar to a knapsack but worn over one shoulder.
8. Sheathed in iron armor —used especially of naval vessels.
11. An agricultural estate usually worked by resident labor.
12. A legal-tender note issued by the U.S. government.
14. The state of a person who is forced usually under threat of violence to labor for the profit of another.
15. Weapons (such as bows, slings, and catapults) for discharging missiles.

1. The action of a state impeding or attempting to prevent the operation and enforcement within its territory of a law of the U.S.
2. An act or instance of uniting or joining two or more things into one: such as the formation of a single political unit from two or more separate and independent units.
3. A Northerner in the South after the American Civil War usually seeking private gain under the Reconstruction governments.
5. A coarse work shoe reaching to the ankle.
6. soldiers trained, armed, and equipped to fight on foot.
9. A group of people, countries, organizations, etc. joined together for a common purpose or by a common interest.
10. A long gun with a smooth bore that soldiers shot from the shoulder.
13. A state (such as Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky, or Missouri) bordering on an antislavery state and favoring slavery before the Civil War.