1850-1860

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