Social studies

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  1. 4. slave of Dr. John Emerson, sued to be free in a complex court case, case concluded that he was not a free man according to the constitution because he was an African American
  2. 5. made Lincoln famous and made him a presidential candidate Douglas wanted national slavery and lincoln wanted to abolish it
  3. 7. part of compromise of 1850, required that slaves be returned to their owners
  4. 15. Revoked the Missouri compromise, created two new territories (Kansas and Nebraska), produced Bleeding Kansas
  5. 17. guaranteed the citizens the right to own slaves
  6. 18. On May 24, 1856 along the Pottawatomie creek Brown and his men killed 5 pro slavery men in Kansas
  7. 19. Native born white Americans made up about ⅔ of the army's population, most died to disease
  8. 20. little known politician who became the 14th president
Down
  1. 1. abolitionist author who made Uncle Tom's cabin
  2. 2. state that joined the union with a compromise in 1850
  3. 3. two armies met along Antietam creek in Maryland and 12,000 casualties happened, single bloodiest battle of the civil war
  4. 6. battle in 1856 where Kansas had 2 governments and they went to battle
  5. 8. John Brown attacked this Ferry in 1858 to attack Virginia and seize weapons there
  6. 9. part of the army during civil war, slaves who if caught trying to escape were harshly delt with
  7. 10. wanted slavery, ran against Abe Lincoln
  8. 11. president in 1860, led the nation through the civil war, assassinated on April 14 1865
  9. 12. worked in farms and factories, didn't fight in the war, did work that men would usually do
  10. 13. criticized pro slavery in Kansas and was a Senator
  11. 14. antislavery novel written Harriet Beecher Stowe
  12. 16. act that allowed California to join the union and many other things