Civil War
Across
- 4. Began career at 25 and began as a Illinois state legislature whig
- 5. Fed fort in Charleston South Carolina where first shots were fired
- 6. A political agreement that admitted California to the Union as a free state while permitting popular sovereignty in the territories and enacting a stricter fugitive slave law
- 9. Union General also 18th president
- 15. Abolitionist government of Massachusetts
- 20. Civil War battle fought on Union Territory
- 21. A military tactic in which a navy prevents vessels from entering or leaving its enemy's ports
- 23. Judges son from Ohio renowned Union General during Civil War
- 24. During the Civil War a state that allowed slavery but remained in the Union: Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri
- 25. Civil War killing 23,000 troops in one day
- 26. 2 days of fighting killing nearly 25,000 soldiers
Down
- 1. Law giving 160 acres to citizens willing to live on it for 5 years
- 2. Formally withdraw from membership in group or organization
- 3. Existed before civil war to help slaves escaped to safety
- 7. A term used to describe the violence between proslavery and antislavery supporters in Kansas from 1854 to 1856
- 8. Government of 11 states that seceded from United States and fought against Union
- 10. Required all citizens to aid in apprehending runaway slaves
- 11. Born into slavery in Maryland and escaped to Philadelphia
- 12. Anti-slavery political party in mid-1800
- 13. Declared free all enslaved people living in confederate states and territories
- 14. Southern Planter and became President Confederate states
- 16. Anti-slavery novel published by Harriet Beecher Stowe
- 17. Principle in which people are a source of government power
- 18. African American born to slavery and sued for freedom
- 19. Party established on anti-slavery in 1854
- 22. Divided the 2 states to let them choose to be a slave or free state