Civil War Crossword

2. The first shots of the Civil War were fired at blank, South Carolina. Although no one was killed there, the bloodiest war in the country’s history had begun.
4. developed a two-part strategy: (1) destroy the South’s economy with a naval blockade of southern ports; (2) gain control of the Mississippi River to divide the South. Other leaders urged an attack on Richmond, Virginia, the Confederate capital.
8. offered southerners amnesty, or official pardon, for all illegal acts supporting the rebellion.
10. agency providing relief for freedpeople and certain poor people in the South
12. slave states that did not join the Confederacy
14. made slavery illegal

1. supported the Wilmot Proviso
3. document stating that “neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist in any part of [the] territory.
5. American author and daughter of Lyman Beecher, she was an abolitionist and author of the famous antislavery novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
6. antislavery novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe that showed northerners the violent reality of slavery and drew many people to the abolitionists’ cause
7. formally withdraw
9. allowed California to enter the Union as a free state and divided the rest of the Mexican Cession into two territories where slavery would be decided by popular sovereignty
11. This was the idea that Great Britain would support the Confederacy because it needed the South’s raw cotton to supply its booming textile industry
13. favoring the interests of one section or region over the interests of the entire country.