25-26 Civil War Test Review

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Across
  1. 2. 1st Civil War battle
  2. 4. Utah, New Mexico, Kansas, and Nebraska used _________________ to decide whether to be a slave state or free
  3. 6. term given to states that remained in the Union during the Civil War, but also continued to allow enslaved labor
  4. 12. a stretch of land, especially with regard to its physical features
  5. 14. bloodiest Civil War battle; Union victory gave Lincoln the opening to issue the Emancipation Proclamation
  6. 15. ____________________ v. Sandford was the Supreme Court case that decided the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional, and that enslaved persons were not entitled to the rights in court as they were property (not citizens)
  7. 18. the states of Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Arkansas; many of their enslaved persons were moved closer to the Gulf of Mexico once cotton became more profitable
  8. 20. Sherman’s March through Georgia was considered a ____________________ approach; destroying both civilian and military targets on his path on his way en route to the Atlantic
  9. 21. The ______________ Compromise temporarily solved the problem of balancing the number of free and enslaved states in 1820.
  10. 22. the use of a country’s ships to stop another country from trading, usually during a war
  11. 23. Civil War battle that was the turning point in the South/West; Union victory that split the Confederacy in half and gave them control of the Mississippi River
  12. 24. formal separation of a state from the Union
  13. 25. Confederate Army General who surrendered General Lee’s surrender
  14. 28. the states of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina; these states' enslaved populations grew tremendously after the invention of the cotton gin
  15. 30. both freedmen and escaped enslaved persons faced ________________ in the United States in the Antebellum Era
  16. 32. term used to describe the era leading up to the American Civil War
  17. 33. The __________________ of 1860, won by Lincoln, quickly contributed to South Carolina’s secession from the Union.
  18. 35. abolitionist responsible for deaths in Kansas and raid at arsenal at Harpers Ferry, VA
  19. 37. loyalty to one’s own region or section of the country, rather than to the country as a whole
  20. 38. free state added to the Union as a result of the Compromise of 1850
  21. 39. issued by Lincoln, this document freed the enslaved people only in rebelling states
  22. 40. enslaved labor was _______________ above 36°30′ as a part of the Missouri Compromise
Down
  1. 1. Lincoln’s __________________ Address detailed the “real” cause of the Civil War (slavery) and the goal of bringing the Union back together again
  2. 3. Lincoln’s _______________ Inaugural Address detailed his hope for preserving the union, the intolerance of secession, and not trying to interfere with enslaved labor in the South
  3. 5. Many of the compromises in the Antebellum Era dealt with the expansion of __________________ into new western territories.
  4. 7. location of Lee’s surrender to Grant
  5. 8. term used to describe the North relying on the South for cotton, and the South relying on the North for manufactured goods
  6. 9. President of the Confederate States of American; leader of the Confederacy
  7. 10. Union Army General who accepted General Lee’s surrender
  8. 11. area where slavery was expanding to in the Antebellum Era
  9. 13. President of the United States; leader of the Union
  10. 16. location of the majority of the factories in the Antebellum Era
  11. 17. as a part of the Compromise of 1850, a tougher ____________ Slave Act was passed, making it a crime for people in the North to help enslaved persons escape to freedom
  12. 19. location of majority of the plantations in the Antebellum Era
  13. 26. free state added to the Union as a result of the Missouri Compromise
  14. 27. Civil War battle that was the turning point in the North/East; Union victory prevented future Confederate advances north
  15. 29. rights and powers held by individual US states rather than by the federal government - protected by the 10th Amendment (federalism)
  16. 31. primary cash crop of the South during the Antebellum Era
  17. 34. compromise that allowed Kansas and Nebraska to determine if they wanted to enter as a slave or free state using popular sovereignty; led to Bleeding Kansas
  18. 36. The ______________________ of 1850 included many provisions, including popular sovereignty being used to decide in Utah and New Mexico, a tougher Fugitive Slave Act, abolishing the Washington DC slave trade, finalizing the border of Texas, and admitting California as a free state.