Civil War Review

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Across
  1. 3. When people support what is best for a state, section, or region over what is best for the whole nation
  2. 7. Supreme Court decision that held two extremely detrimental rulings: 1 that African Americans were not citizens and 2 that the Missouri Compromise was UNCONSTITUTIONAL, so it seemed like the federal government supported slavery.
  3. 8. An advantage the Confederacy had over the Union as the Union had to keep coming into the south.
  4. 9. Passageway used by slaves to escape to the North or Canada
  5. 10. Raid of a federal arsenal by a prominent abolitionist to attempt to start a slave rebellion. Encouraged more northerners to become abolitionists.
  6. 12. Amendment that outlawed slavery
  7. 15. The reason African slaves started to replace Native American slaves in the Americas
  8. 21. Invention that increased the production of cotton which led to a need for more people to work the land to keep up with production.
  9. 23. Union strategy to surround and choke out the South
  10. 24. Focused on industrialization
  11. 25. Compromise that saw balance kept between slave and free states by adding Maine and Missouri to the United States. Also outlawed slavery north of the 36'30" line.
  12. 26. Turning point of the war as a huge Union victory
Down
  1. 1. Bloodiest single day in American history
  2. 2. Opening shots of the war and a Confederate victory
  3. 4. Focused on agricultural development of grain
  4. 5. First state to leave the union
  5. 6. Election that showcased the sectional splits in the United States. Republican Abraham Lincoln will win this, as the Democratic party splits its votes into Northern and Southern Democrats- Northern Democrats favored Douglas and popular sovereignty, while the Southern Democrats supported the Supreme Court’s decision in the Dred Scott case
  6. 11. Freed slaves in states at war with the Union
  7. 13. Story written by Harriet Beecher Stowe that influenced many men and women to join the abolition movement, it showed the world the horrors of slavery
  8. 14. The result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act as pro-slavery and anti-slavery groups began a mini Civil War.
  9. 16. The question of slavery should be determined by the people within a particular state by a popular vote, not the federal government.
  10. 17. Siege of the last Confederate stronghold on the Mississippi River
  11. 18. Compromise that saw California enter as a free state in exchange for creating a new Fugitive Slave Act. Additionally, slave trade was banned in Washington DC in exchange for the Mexican Cession territory being open to popular sovereignty over the issue of slavery.
  12. 19. The lenient plan of Reconstruction that tried to heal the nation while also supporting freed African Americans by giving them land
  13. 20. The most forgiving (you might say too forgiving) plan for the South which was created by a Southerner as President. It led to freedmen's rights being kicked to the curb.
  14. 22. Focused on the agricultural development of cash crops like cotton and tobacco
  15. 27. This plan is the one that ended up being used the most and saw some success while in effect as African Americans were elected to political office in the South