Final Review: Antebellum America & Outbreak of Civil War
Across
- 3. The time period before the war
- 5. (Last name only) The person who won the Election of 1860
- 6. The Dred Scott Decision was made by the...
- 7. What Lincoln said he would do about slavery in his inaugural address
- 10. This law prohibited Congress from debating slavery
- 13. The free state added by the Compromise of 1850
- 16. (last name only) This person wrote an "Appeal" that encouraged enslaved people to obtain freedom by any means necessary
- 17. The belief that America was entitled by God to overspread and take over the continent
- 18. The American Anti Slavery Society was willing to give this up for abolition and racial eqaulity
- 21. (last name only) This person was enslaved, but after obtaining his freedom went on to write an autobiography, go on a speaking tour, and more to promote abolition
- 24. The treaty that ended the Mexican American War
- 25. (last name only) This man started a violent rebellion to free himself and others
- 29. (last name only) The name of the anti-slavery Congressman who was beaten on the senate floor
- 30. Lincoln's political party
- 33. (last name only) This person wrote the newspaper "The Liberator"
- 34. The town in Kansas that was sacked; significant in Bleeding Kansas
- 37. To formally leave a country
- 38. The free state added by the Missouri Compromise
- 39. Besides keeping the balance of slave and free states, this compromise drew a line at the 36'30 to divide the country into a free north and slave south
- 42. This area of the country was made up of slave states
- 43. (last name only) This person escaped slavery and then became a conductor for the Underground Railroad.
- 44. This act repealed the Missouri Compromise line and allowed more of the country to be open to slavery
- 45. This section of the United States includes modern day Washington and Oregon
- 46. This section of the United States was the last part added, it is located south of the Mexican Cession
- 48. This compromise allowed some states to vote on if they would or would not allow slavery AND banned the slave trade in Washington DC
- 49. The last name of the Confederacy president
- 50. The Texas _______ made Texas an official state
Down
- 1. The first state to secede from the US
- 2. The Texas _______ led to Texas becoming an independent country
- 4. These laws were passed to counter the Fugitive Slave Act
- 8. The location of John Brown's Raid
- 9. This refers to the forced transportation of African people to the Americas for the purpose of slavery
- 11. The violence that occured in the former Louisiana Territory after 1854 is referred to as...
- 12. The Gag Rule violated this amendment
- 14. The slave state added by the Missouri Compromise
- 15. To be freed from slavery
- 19. According to the vice president of the Confederacy, this is the foundation of the nation
- 20. The state that threatened to secede over the Tariff of 1828 and later was the first state to secede from the Union
- 22. (Last name only) This person wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin
- 23. The pro-slavery country that was made up of southern states
- 26. The Dred Scott decision ruled that no African Americans were ____
- 27. This act forced citizens to help capture escaped enslaved people and return them to the south
- 28. The Kansas Nebraska Act and the Compromise of 1850 both allowed territories to ___ regarding slavery
- 31. (last name only) This person used their background to appeal to people like themselves, writing "An Appeal to the Christian Women of the South"
- 32. In this state, there was a law that made it impossible to live in the state and be free as an African American
- 35. This area of the country was made up of free states
- 36. Local and state laws that tried to limit the rights of free and enslaved African Americans
- 40. This refers to the United States domestic slave trade
- 41. This added most of the Southwest United states to the country (New Mexico, Utah, California, etc)
- 47. This man sued for his freedom