Civil War

4. also referred to as the GOP, is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States.
7. territorial organic act that created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska
8. Another name for the confederate states of the south and north.
10. was an American politician who served as the president of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1865.
11. was an American lawyer, diplomat, and politician who served as the 15th president of the United States from 1857 to 1861.
12. A name given to confederate states of America or the confederacy.
13. American politician and lawyer from Illinois
14. political powers held for the state governments rather than the federal government

1. was an unsuccessful 1846 proposal in the United States Congress to ban slavery in territory acquired from Mexico in the Mexican–American War.
2. The name given to the states that stayed loyal to the US government.
3. The principle that the authority of a state and its government are created and sustained by the consent of its people, who are the source of all political power.
5. were slave states that did not secede from the Union.
6. 16th president in 1861
9. short-lived coalition political party in the United States active from 1848 to 1854
13. Withdraw formally from membership of a federal union, an alliance, or a political or religious organization