Civil War

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Across
  1. 8. (1) California admitted as free state, (2) territorial status and popular sovereignty of Utah and New Mexico, (3) slave trade abolished in DC, and (4) new fugitive slave law; strengthened South's support advocated by Henry Clay and Stephen Douglas
  2. 9. Separation of people based on racial, ethnic, or other differences
  3. 10. Formal withdrawal of states or regions from a nation
  4. 13. Created to keep the balance of power of free states and slave states. It was decided Missouri entered as a slave state and Maine entered as a free state and all states North of the 36th parallel were free states and all South were slave states.
  5. 14. Movement of over 300,000 African American looking for jobs from the rural south into Northern cities between 1914 and 1920
  6. 15. The name for the north during the Civil War
  7. 17. 1854 A law that allowed voters in Kansas and Nebraska to choose whether to allow slavery
  8. 19. Refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man and inspired the Montgomery Alabama boycott.
  9. 20. Area that relied on agriculture, plantations, cotton, crops. few factories, and had slaves.
  10. 22. 1st state to secede from the Union
  11. 24. A group tried to seize the federal arsenal and armory at Harpers Ferry, Virginia to give weapons to slaves who could use them to fight for freedom. The plan failed, and the leader was tried, convicted, and hanged for treason.
  12. 25. 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
  13. 26. Principle upheld in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) in which the Supreme Court ruled that segregation of public facilities was legal.
  14. 28. Slave sued for his freedom after living in a free state for a short time. Supreme Court ruling that declared slaves were not viewed as citizens but as property.
  15. 30. Loyalty to one's own region of the country, rather than to the nation as a whole
  16. 32. 16th president of the United States; helped preserve the United States by leading the defeat of the secessionist Confederacy; an outspoken opponent of the expansion of slavery.
  17. 35. A person who wanted to end slavery in the United States
  18. 36. Abolished slavery
  19. 37. A sequence of violent events involving abolitionists and pro-Slavery elements that took place in Kansas-Nebraska Territory. The dispute further strained the relations of the North and South, making civil war imminent.
Down
  1. 1. Brooks (proslavery) attacked Sumner (anti slavery) on floor of the senate with his cane.
  2. 2. Protect the right of African American Men to vote. Southern states added poll taxes, literacy tests, and used violence to prevent African American men from voting.
  3. 3. A large political rally that took place in Washington, D.C. on August 28, 1963. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his historic "I Have a Dream" speech advocating racial harmony at the Lincoln Memorial during the march. Widely credited as helping lead to the Civil Rights Act (1964) and the National Voting Rights Act (1965).
  4. 4. Declares that all persons born in the U.S. are citizens and are guaranteed equal protection of the laws. Gave former slaves same rights as other Americans.
  5. 5. Confederate general who had opposed secession but did not believe the Union should be held together by force
  6. 6. Compromise that enables Hayes to take office in return for the end of Reconstruction in the South
  7. 7. The southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861
  8. 8. This was the first high school to be integrated. 9 African Americans started going to the all white high school. President Eisenhower used federal troops to protect them.
  9. 11. Power comes from the people who rule by majority and their own consent.
  10. 12. Many factories, industrial, bigger cities, many immigrants, and didn't support slavery.
  11. 16. American abolitionist. Born a slave on a Maryland plantation, she escaped to the North in 1849 and became the most renowned conductor on the Underground Railroad, leading more than 300 slaves to freedom.
  12. 18. General of the Union Army
  13. 21. A novel published by Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1852 which portrayed slavery as brutal and immoral and caused many northerns to oppose slavery.
  14. 23. A system of secret routes used by escaping slaves to reach freedom in the North or in Canada
  15. 27. The president was shot and killed by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C., April 14, 1865
  16. 29. Lincoln, the Republican candidate, won because the Democratic party was split over slavery. As a result, the South no longer felt like it has a voice in politics and a number of states seceded from the Union.
  17. 31. Union fort attacked by Confederates in South Carolina 1861 sparking the start of the Civil War
  18. 33. The period after the Civil War in the United States when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union
  19. 34. The idea to expand west and that the U.S. was destined to rule the continent, from the Atlantic the Pacific.