Civil War events
Across
- 3. and antislavery folks went to Kansas territory in 1854-1856.
- 5. does the South seriously begin to think about if these states joined the Union as free states?
- 6. slave act
- 8. representative Preston Brooks entered the senate chamber and started beating sumner w/a cane
- 12. Brown's Raid
- 13. and 18 men seized arsenal w/o a fight; fell apart when no slaves rose up to assist the rebellion
- 14. Toms Cabin
- 15. Scott case.
- 17. compromise
- 18. not following the law would be charged w/a felony and fined
- 19. allowed to choose states if they allowed slavery or not.
- 22. U.S. Supreme Court stated that enslaved people were not citizens of the United States
- 23. Railroad
- 24. missouri applied for statehood
Down
- 1. of 1850
- 2. Carolina voted to secede from the Union on DEC 20, 1860. Between JAN 9-FEB 1, more states voted to secede from the union
- 4. Slave Act Passed
- 5. proposed the Missouri Compromise?
- 7. in Congress
- 8. Clay
- 9. of 1860
- 10. Kansas
- 11. was popular w/northern abolitionists; southerners hated him- didn't even appear on most southern ballots
- 16. act
- 20. opponents squared off in the race for a senate seat to represent Illinois
- 21. both the antislavery movement and the womans right movement