Civil war stations

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Across
  1. 4. a devotion to the interests of one geographic region over the interests of the country as a whole
  2. 5. a statement made by Stephen Douglas during the Lincoln-Douglas debates that pointed out how people could use popular sovereignty to determine if their state or territory should permit slavery
  3. 6. to formally withdraw from the union
  4. 9. American Confederate general, he led the Shenandoah Valley campaign and fought with Lee in the Seven Days’ Battles and the First and Second Battles of Bull Run.
  5. 10. a political party formed in 1848 by antislavery northerners who left the Whig and Democratic parties because neither addressed the slavery issue
  6. 11. a political party formed in the 1850s to stop the spread of slavery in the West
  7. 13. an incident in which abolitionist John Brown and seven other men murdered pro-slavery Kansans
Down
  1. 1. the idea that political authority belongs to the people
  2. 2. a political party formed in 1860 by a group of northerners and southerners who supported the Union, its laws, and the Constitution
  3. 3. Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri; slave states that lay between the North and the South and did not join the Confederacy during the Civil War
  4. 7. Confederate efforts to use the importance of southern cotton to Britain’s textile industry to persuade the British to support the Confederacy in the Civil War
  5. 8. the nation formed by the southern states when they seceded from the Union; also known as the Confederacy
  6. 9. incident in which abolitionist John Brown and 21 other men captured a federal arsenal in Harpers Ferry, Virginia, in hope of starting a slave rebellion
  7. 12. a federal outpost in Charleston, South Carolina, that was attacked by the Confederates in April 1861, sparking the Civil War