The Civil War

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Across
  1. 3. Scott decision, Ruled that African Americans were not U.S citizens so they had no rights to sue
  2. 4. Doctrine, Stephen Douglas’s argument that territories could limit slavery by refusing to pass laws protecting it, even after Dred Scott.
  3. 7. of 1850, A set of laws admitting California as a free state, using popular sovereignty in new territories, ending the slave trade in D.C., settling the Texas border, and strengthening the Fugitive Slave Act.
  4. 8. Period after the Civil War focused on rebuilding the South and integrating formerly enslaved people into society.
  5. 10. An event or action that triggers or speeds up major change.
  6. 12. Address, Lincoln’s speech redefining the war as a fight to preserve a nation dedicated to equality and democracy.
  7. 16. Two major Union victories in 1863 that turned the tide of the Civil War.
  8. 19. Sovereignty, Citizens will determine a new state's slavery status.
  9. 21. Act, Law allowing popular sovereignty in Kansas and Nebraska; it overturned the Missouri Compromise and led to Bleeding Kansas.
  10. 23. The name of the new nation formed by the Southern states
  11. 24. proclamation, Lincoln’s wartime order declaring enslaved people in Confederate states to be free.
  12. 25. When regents or section of the country are more loyal to their interests rather than to the country as a whole
Down
  1. 1. When a state formally leaves the Union.
  2. 2. The United States government and Northern states fighting to preserve the nation.
  3. 5. Davis, President of the Confederacy during the Civil War.
  4. 6. Differences, Economic, social, and political differences between the North, South, and West
  5. 9. A system in which people are treated as property and forced to work without freedom or pay.
  6. 11. Term meaning “Before the war”, especially the period before the Civil War
  7. 13. Amendment, Constitutional amendment that abolished slavery in the United States.
  8. 14. Douglass, Former slave who became a powerful writer, speaker, and leader for abolition
  9. 15. T. Sherman, Union general known for his “March to the Sea,” which destroyed Southern infrastructure.
  10. 17. To withdraw from a nation or political union
  11. 18. E. Lee, Leading Confederate general during the Civil War.
  12. 20. Plan- Winfield Scott, Union strategy to blockade Southern ports and control the Mississippi River to squeeze the Confederacy.
  13. 22. Movement, Movement to end Slavery