US History: Civil War

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Across
  1. 3. an abolitionist described by a historian as a "man made of the stuff of saints"
  2. 6. an act stating that under the law, runaway slaves who had escaped to the North could be arrested and sent back
  3. 7. Henry Clay's compromise addressing free and slave states
  4. 10. a sluggish creek that two armies led by McClellan and Lincoln
  5. 12. the formal withdrawal of a state from the Union
  6. 13. formed by nativists better known as the Know-Nothing Party
  7. 16. an editor of the New York Tribune
  8. 17. formed on July 6 in Michigan
Down
  1. 1. a soft lead bullet used in the Civil War that was more destrictive than earlier bullets
  2. 2. the right of residents of a territory to vote for or against slavery
  3. 4. the only thing that free people could teach slaves
  4. 5. the favoring of native-born Americans over immigrants
  5. 6. states that do not support slavery
  6. 8. the state Harriet Tubman went to for freedom after her owner died
  7. 9. northern Democrats who advocated peace with the South
  8. 11. an unrecognized nation formed by 11 southern US states
  9. 14. the single greatest importer of American cotton before the Civil War
  10. 15. a gun that was more accurate than old-fashioned muskets used in the Civil War