Civil War and Sectionalism Crossword

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  1. 8. Act 1854 - Created Nebraska and Kansas as states and gave the people in those territories the right to chose to be a free or slave state through popular sovereignty.
  2. 9. (1856) Term that described the prairie territory where a small-scale civil war between abolitionists and pro-slavery border ruffians erupted in response to the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854.
  3. 12. A conflict in which the participating countries devote all their resources to the war effort
  4. 13. A belief that ultimate power resides in the people. During sectionalism, this specifically pertains to the idea that residents of new states should decide if slavery should be permitted or not.
  5. 14. a person who favors the abolition of a practice or institution, especially capital punishment or (formerly) slavery.
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  1. 1. A system that helped enslaved African Americans follow a network of escape routes out of the South to freedom in the North
  2. 2. Decision A Missouri slave sued for his freedom, claiming that his four year stay in the northern portion of the Louisiana Territory made free land by the Missouri Compromise had made him a free man. The U.S, Supreme Court decided he couldn't sue in federal court because he was property, not a citizen.
  3. 3. A loose union of independent states; name of government used by the southern states that seceded during the Civil War
  4. 4. ___________Plan Union war plan by Winfield Scott, called for blockade of southern coast, capture of Richmond, capture Mississippi R, and to take an army through heart of south
  5. 5. 's_______________March to the Sea 1864 during the civil war, a devastating total war military campaign, led by union general William Tecumseh Sherman, that involved marching 60,000 union troops through Georgia from Atlanta to Savannah and destroying everything along there way.
  6. 6. __________ Proclamation issued by Lincoln, freeing all slaves in areas still at war with the Union.
  7. 7. ____________Address (1863) a speech given by Abraham Lincoln after the Battle of Gettysburg, in which he praised the bravery of Union soldiers and renewed his commitment to winning the Civil War; supported the ideals of self-government and human rights
  8. 10. Loyalty to one's own region of the country, rather than to the nation as a whole
  9. 11. withdraw formally from membership in a federal union, an alliance, or a political or religious organization.