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- 3. Compromise/A series of agreements passed by Congress in 1820-1821 to maintain the balance of power between slave states and free states. Missouri was admitted as a slave state and Maine was admitted as a free state to keep the balance of power.
- 4. three minute speech inspired the North to keep fighting for a united country and the end of slavery.
- 7. Tom's Cabin/Novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe that showed the horrors of slavery to Northerners.
- 8. of Gettysburg/Turning point of the Civil War that made it clear the North would win.
- 13. Act/A law that allowed voters in Kansas and Nebraska to choose whether to allow slavery or not.
- 15. states/Slave states that remained in the Union (Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, and Delaware).
- 16. Scott Decision/U.S. Supreme Court decision which determined that slaves (Dred Scott) could not sue in federal court because they did not have the rights of citizenship.
- 18. Davis/President of the Confederacy; born in Kentucky; for slavery; believed states had the right to leave the Union
- 19. Proclamation/
- 21. for the South; got his nickname because he refused to retreat during battle - he held his position like a stone wall.
- 22. freeing slaves in Union-controlled Confederate states
- 23. Address/Speech given by Abraham Lincoln at the dedication of the Gettysburg National Cemetery
- 24. United States (especially the northern states during the American Civil War)
Down
- 1. Ferry/Place in Virginia where John Brown led a raid on a federal arsenal.
- 2. southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861.
- 5. of being owned by, and forced to work for someone else.
- 6. stopped the South's advance in the North
- 9. Southern states seceded from the Union in 1860 which precipitated the Civil War.
- 10. leave or withdraw
- 11. Sumter/Union military post in South Carolina which was taken over by the Confederacy in 1861.
- 12. erupted when people from Missouri crossed into Kansas to vote for slavery then went back to Missouri
- 14. clad/ship made of iron
- 17. Lincoln/President of the United States of America during the Civil War; born in Kentucky; helped preserve the United States by leading the country in the defeat of the Confederacy; against slavery; freed slaves; assassinated by John Wilkes Booth
- 20. did not call for abolition (free all slaves) at the beginning of the war because these states had slaves and would fight for the Union.