Social Studies Final Review #3

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Across
  1. 4. :The ____________ was a series of networks and safehouses that guided slaves in their escape to freedom.
  2. 7. :a government act requiring people to serve in the military.
  3. 13. :this method of transportation quickly became the standard in the US during the 1850's. Mostly in the north.
  4. 14. :Pope Gregory XVI in 1839 issued an apostolic letter, __________________ condemning the slave trade.
  5. 15. :The Potato famine brought many thousands of immigrants to the US from Ireland. Most native born Americans looked at them with suspicion because of their poverty and Catholic faith.
  6. 18. : An executive order announced Sept 22, 1862. It stated that enslaved people in those states or parts of states still in rebellion as of January 1, 1863, would be declared free.
  7. 20. :The location where General Lee finally surrendered to General Grant April 9, 1865.
  8. 21. :_____________ was a book written by author, Harriot Beecher Stowe. It highlighted the evils of slavery and put the south in a vary negative light.
  9. 22. :is a type of written instruction that presidents use to work their will through the executive branch of government.
Down
  1. 1. :This was a person that believed that slavery should or would gradually fade away in the US. Most American Catholics held this view.
  2. 2. :The states of Kentucky, Delaware, Maryland, Missouri and (Later) West Virginia. During the civil war these proslavery states remained in the Union. What were they called?
  3. 3. :________________ was born a slave in Maryland, but he was taught how to read and write. He was an eloquent speaker and would travel the North giving speeches in the Antislavery movement.
  4. 5. :The battle of ________ was fought July 1-3, 1863 and was the turning point of the Civil War.
  5. 6. :The first shots of the civil war were fired at this location.
  6. 8. :The president of the US during the Civil War 1861-1865
  7. 9. : The idea that is the settlers themselves would decide whether the territories would admit slavery or not.
  8. 10. :The first of the Southern State to secede from the Union after the election of 1860.
  9. 11. :The president of the Confederate States of the America from 1860-1865.
  10. 12. :The name of the slave that challenged his master in court. His master brough him to a free territory, which he then argued meant that he was now free.
  11. 16. :The middle class of the south were called ______. They had relatively small farms and only a few if any slaves. Often working the fields the same as their slaves.
  12. 17. :Looms, powered by ____________. This was an invention of Mr. Lowell and Mr. Appleton. It revolutionized industry and made the Northern cities major industrial centers.
  13. 19. :This was a person who wished for slavery to be abolished immediatly