Pre-Civil War Crossword Puzzle
Across
- 7. Union fort; location of a battle of the Civil War
- 10. author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin"
- 13. planned attack led by John Brown to steal weapons from an arsenal in Virginia
- 14. state in which slavery is legal
- 16. southern portion from the Kansas-Nebraska Act
- 19. laws to control the behavior of slaves and to complicate life
- 20. a loyalty to a section or part of the country
- 21. proposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act
Down
- 1. secret system organized to help slaves escape to the North
- 2. president of the Confederacy
- 3. declared California a free state; Fugitive Slave Law was passed
- 4. the states located in between the Union and the Confederacy
- 5. forcing people to do labor (typically a group in minority)
- 6. the states that remained loyal to the United States
- 8. the states that seceded from the United States
- 9. northern portion from the Kansas-Nebraska Act
- 11. idea that states have the right to make decisions about issues that concern them
- 12. state in which slavery is illegal
- 15. most famous "conductor" of the Underground Railroad
- 17. the war fought between the Union and Confederacy
- 18. to break away from the United States