Civil War

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Across
  1. 2. People in each state would decide the slavery issue (“popular sovereignty”)
  2. 6. was a former enslaved African American who promoted African American involvement in the Civil War
  3. 7. a group of states united into one political body, the United States, and refers to the North during the Civil War
  4. 9. tax on foreign goods
  5. 11. in which people held jobs in cities, the North was mainly an urban society
  6. 20. was leader of the Army of Northern Virginia, opposed secession, but did not believe that the Union should be held together by force
  7. 21. a novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, who was an abolitionist, which described slavery in the South
  8. 22. California entered the Union as a free state. Southwest territories would decide about slavery.
  9. 23. Missouri entered the Union as a slave state; Maine entered the Union as a free slate.
  10. 25. an African American sailor and later a Union naval captain, was highly honored for his feats of bravery and heroism. He was elected to the United States House of Representatives after the war.
  11. 26. said that the Civil War was to preserve a government “of the people, by the people, and for the people” Given by Abraham Lincoln in Gettysburg PA
  12. 27. was president of the Confederate States of America
Down
  1. 1. another term for the Confederate States of America, the South
  2. 3. was a skilled Confederate general from Virginia
  3. 4. the withdrawal of states from the United States
  4. 5. an American abolitionist, Brown and his followers attacked and occupied the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry
  5. 8. United States Supreme Court case, a slave who had resided in a free state or territory , where slavery was prohibited, was not thereby entitled to his freedom
  6. 10. a Civil War nurse, created the American Red Cross
  7. 12. was president of the United States during the Civil War (16TH president), wrote the Gettysburg Address
  8. 13. declared “that all persons held as slaves: within the rebellious states “are, and henceforward shall be free”
  9. 14. a crop such as tobacco and cotton that is grown to be sold rather than by use by the farmer
  10. 15. in which people lived in small villages and on farms and plantations, the South was mainly an agricultural society
  11. 16. the principle that the authority of a state and its government is created and sustained by the consent of its people, through their elected representatives, who are the source of all political power
  12. 17. political powers reserved for the states governments rather than the federal governments. State power should be stronger than national.
  13. 18. a law passed as part of the Compromise of 1850, which provided southern slaveholders with a legal way to capture slaves who had escaped to the free states
  14. 19. was general of the Union army that defeated Lee
  15. 24. an act or means of sealing off a place to prevent goods or people from entering or leaving.