Civil War Crossword
Across
- 2. the action of assassinating someone
- 5. Harriet's husband
- 6. a package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress in September 1850
- 9. 1863 gave the Union control of the Mississippi River in the American Civil War.
- 12. passed in 1820 admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
- 15. network of secret routes and safe houses established in the United States.
- 16. He led a daring raid from Kansas across the border into Missouri, where he killed one slave owner and freed 11 slaves.
- 18. Midwestern state that starts with a K
- 19. also known as ¨The Great Compromiser¨
- 20. derogatory name for proslavery raiders from the slave state of Missouri.
- 21. the deadliest one-day battle in American military history
- 22. provided for the seizure and return of runaway slaves who escaped from one state into another or into a federal territory.
Down
- 1. a controversial political doctrine according to which the people of federal territories should decide for themselves whether their territories would enter the Union as free or slave states.
- 3. an attempt to start an armed revolt of enslaved people and destroy the institution of slavery
- 4. the site of the first shots of the Civil War
- 7. became the foremost advocate of popular sovereignty.
- 8. shared ideas about the injustices of slavery
- 10. Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri and West Virginia.
- 11. regarded as one of America's greatest heroes due to his role as savior of the Union and emancipator of enslaved people.
- 13. occurred on the night of May 24–25, 1856, in the Kansas Territory.
- 14. also called for government support of business through tariffs.
- 17. American abolitionists who freed approximately 70 enslaved people.