Civil war
Across
- 2. A plan that would divide the remainder of the Louisiana purchase into two territories Kansas and Nebraska.
- 3. A relative of him responded strongly.
- 5. The anti slavery novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe.
- 6. made it a crime to help runaway slaves and allowed officials to arrest those slaves in free areas.
- 8. Began when him and his army took over the arsenal in Harpers Ferry.
- 12. A federal outpost in charleston South Carolina.
- 13. Developed a two part strategy.
- 16. He first addressed the issue of Dred scott's citizenship.
- 17. A graduate of the U.S Military Academy.
- 20. ships heavily armored with iron.
- 21. The idea that political power belongs to the people.
- 24. favors the interest of one section or region.
Down
- 1. Had a great deal of experience as Polk's secretary of state.
- 4. formally withdrawing from the union.
- 7. Had a little experience but he stood against the spread of slavery.
- 8. Had hoped to be the commanding general of Mississippi's troops.
- 9. A political party united against the spread of slavery in the west.
- 10. A enslaved person who sued for his freedom.
- 11. A document stating that neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist.
- 14. Had supported the idea of building a railroad to the pacific ocean.
- 15. California was able to enter the union as a free state.
- 18. was the first major battle of the civil war.
- 19. A slaveholder but he opposed the Kansas Nebraska act in 1854.
- 22. Which supported the Wilmot Proviso.
- 23. Criticised pro slavery people in Kansas.