The Civil War

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 2. An ironclad vessel built by the Confederate forces in the hope of breaking the blockade imposed (8)
  2. 7. A town in western Mississippi on bluffs above the Mississippi River to the west of Jackson (9)
  3. 8. A middle way between two extremes (10)
  4. 10. Freeing someone from the control of another (12)
  5. 11. Legal holiday in the United States, last Monday in May (11)
  6. 13. The period after the American Civil War when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated (14)
  7. 15. A creek in northeastern Virginia where two battles were fought in the American Civil War (7)
  8. 16. United States politician responsible for the Missouri Compromise between free and slave states (9)

Down

  1. 1. A war measure that isolates some area of importance to the enemy (8)
  2. 3. An attack intended to ruin someone's reputation (13)
  3. 4. The region of the United States lying to the ___ of the Mason-Dixon line (5)
  4. 5. 16th President of the United States (14)
  5. 6. The southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861 (11)
  6. 9. Screen that shows what a computer is doing (7)
  7. 12. The withdrawal of eleven southern states from the Union in 1860 which precipitated the American (9)
  8. 14. The region of the United States lying to the ___ of the Mason-Dixon line (5)