Civil War

1. Mandated the immediate return of escaped slaves including those in free territories
5. Allowed an official vote for states to vote if they would permit slavery
6. Federal agency that provided school, food, medicine and clothes to freed slaves in the south
8. Supreme court case that ruled African Americans were not citizens and could not sue for rights or freedom
9. Tells the story of a wrongly kidnapped free African American man, Solomon Northup sent to live on a plantation
11. the last former confederate state to be readmitted into the union in 1870
12. A book that was banned in the south that detailed the horrors and brutality of slavery
14. This person became president after abraham lincoln was assassinated after the civil war
15. A law passed to keep the balance between free and slave states stating one free state must enter the union the same time as a free state

2. Famous speech delivered by President Abraham Lincoln in memory of the soldiers who died protecting the nation’s founding principles
3. The location of the official surrender of confederate states to end the civil war
4. Supreme court case that ruled racial segregation was legal as long as it was separate but equal
7. The first southern state to leave the union and form the Confederacy
10. A series of laws passed meant to tackle issues of slavery, introduced the 36 30 line to divide slave and free states
13. the main cause of the civil war