Civil War by Jailah Abbensetts

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Across
  1. 4. law requiring escaped enslaved people to be returned
  2. 7. the group of northern states that stayed loyal to the United States during the American Civil War.
  3. 9. states in the United States where slavery was legal before and during the American Civil War.
  4. 15. an order issued by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War in 1863 that declared enslaved people in the Confederate states to be free.
  5. 16. an agreement in the United States to keep a balance between free states and slave states.
Down
  1. 1. states in the United States where slavery was not allowed before and during the American Civil War.
  2. 2. a short speech by Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War.
  3. 3. Civil War battle fought from July 1–3, 1863, in Pennsylvania.
  4. 5. major Civil War battle fought on September 17, 1862, in Maryland
  5. 6. a group of southern U.S. states that broke away from the United States during the American Civil War.
  6. 8. a state officially leaves a country
  7. 10. set of laws passed in the United States to ease tensions between free states and slave states.
  8. 11. African American woman who escaped slavery and then helped many other enslaved people gain freedom.
  9. 12. system where a person is treated as property and forced to work without pay, freedom, or the right to leave
  10. 13. He issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which helped free enslaved people in the Confederate states.
  11. 14. belief in the United States that Americans were meant to expand across the continent, from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.