civil war
Across
- 2. Henry clay's proposed agreement that allowed California to enter the union as a free state and divided the rest of the Mexican Cession into two territories where slavery would be decided by popular sovereignty?
- 4. the idea that political authority belongs to the people?
- 5. An antislavery novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe that showed northerners the violent reality if slavery and drew many people to the abolitionists' cause?
- 8. who won the war?
- 12. Confederate efforts to use the importance of southern cotton to Britains textile industry to persuade the British to support the confederacy in the civil war?
- 13. a law that made it a crime to help runaway slaves allowed for the arrest of escaped slaves in areas where slavery was illegal and required their return to slaveholders?
- 14. A devotion to the interests of one geographic region over the interests of the country as a whole?
- 15. A political party formed in 1848 by antislavery northerners who left the Whig and democratic parties because neither addressed the slavery issue?
Down
- 1. American author and daughter of Lyman Beecher he was
- 3. A federal outpost in Charleston South Carolina that was attacked bu the confederates in April 1861 sparking the civil war?
- 6. Enslaved African american he ran away and was arrested in Boston. his arrest became the center of violent protests by northern opponents of the fugitive slave act?
- 7. American general he served as a commander in the Mexican war and used a two part strategy against the south in the civil war he wanted to destroy the South's economy with a naval blockade and gain control of the Mississippi river?.
- 9. TO formally withdraw from the union?
- 10. A proposal to outlaw slavery in the territory added to the united states by the Mexican Cession;passed in the house of representatives but was defeated in the senate?
- 11. a slave state that lay between the north and the south and did not join the confederacy during the civil war Delaware Kentucky Maryland and Missouri were border states?