Civil War
Across
- 7. farmers worked on someone else land in return for a small portion of the crops
- 8. The adding of a region to the territory of an existing political unit
- 9. Confederate general
- 13. Loyalty to one's own region of the country, rather than to the nation as a whole
- 14. an American general and the eighteenth President of the United States (1869-1877).
- 15. 1st major battle in the american civil war to take place on northern soil
- 18. belief that an individual state may restrict federal authority
- 19. 6th President of the United States saved the Union during the Civil War and emancipated the slaves
- 20. Served as President of the Confederate States of America for its entire history from 1861 to 1865
Down
- 1. set up Kansas and Nebraska as states
- 2. a law that made it a crime to help runaway slaves
- 3. the southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861
- 4. northerners who went to the south during the reconstruction
- 5. Lincoln wins, southern states begin to secede
- 6. federal fort in the harbor of charleston
- 10. sequence of violent events involving abolitionists and pro-Slavery elements that took place in Kansas-Nebraska Territory.
- 11. Bill that would ban slavery in the territories acquired after the War with Mexico
- 12. abolished slavery
- 16. rule by the army instead of the elected government
- 17. a white southerner who joined the republican party during the reconstruction period