Civil War
Across
- 2. People in each state would decide the slavery issue (“popular sovereignty”)
- 6. was a former enslaved African American who promoted African American involvement in the Civil War
- 7. a group of states united into one political body, the United States, and refers to the North during the Civil War
- 9. tax on foreign goods
- 11. in which people held jobs in cities, the North was mainly an urban society
- 20. was leader of the Army of Northern Virginia, opposed secession, but did not believe that the Union should be held together by force
- 21. a novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, who was an abolitionist, which described slavery in the South
- 22. California entered the Union as a free state. Southwest territories would decide about slavery.
- 23. Missouri entered the Union as a slave state; Maine entered the Union as a free slate.
- 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.
- 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
- 27. was president of the Confederate States of America
Down
- 1. another term for the Confederate States of America, the South
- 3. was a skilled Confederate general from Virginia
- 4. the withdrawal of states from the United States
- 5. an American abolitionist, Brown and his followers attacked and occupied the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry
- 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
- 10. a Civil War nurse, created the American Red Cross
- 12. was president of the United States during the Civil War (16TH president), wrote the Gettysburg Address
- 13. declared “that all persons held as slaves: within the rebellious states “are, and henceforward shall be free”
- 14. a crop such as tobacco and cotton that is grown to be sold rather than by use by the farmer
- 15. in which people lived in small villages and on farms and plantations, the South was mainly an agricultural society
- 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
- 17. political powers reserved for the states governments rather than the federal governments. State power should be stronger than national.
- 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
- 19. was general of the Union army that defeated Lee
- 24. an act or means of sealing off a place to prevent goods or people from entering or leaving.