1850-1860
Across
- 3. an escaped slave who fought for civil rights
- 4. Union general led the north to victory
- 6. one of Lincoln's most famous speeches
- 12. the right to vote
- 13. allowed new territories to decide for themselves to be free state or not
- 14. an alliance of states that seceded away from the Union
- 15. President of the Confederacy
- 16. to maintain this was the initial purpose of the Civil War
- 18. Congress' attempt to defuse tensions in new territories
- 19. was hanged for his fight at Harper's Ferry
- 20. freeing one from slavery
Down
- 1. site of abolitionist fight and aCivil War battlefield
- 2. General for the Confederacy
- 5. was the election in 1860
- 7. aboloished slavery
- 8. someone opposed to slavery
- 9. to break away from the majority
- 10. founder and conductor of the Underground Railroad
- 11. first state to secede from the Union
- 17. troops stationed in a town to defend it