Unit 5 & 6 Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 6. restriction of interest to a narrow sphere; undue concern with local interests or petty distinctions at the expense of general well-being
  2. 7. the first major battle in the American Civil War to take place on Union soil
  3. 10. a small town in southern Pennsylvania; site of a national cemetery
  4. 11. Sovereignty a doctrine in political theory that government is created by and subject to the will of the peopl
  5. 14. Proviso bold attempt by opponents of slavery to prevent its introduction in the territories purchased from Mexico following the Mexican War
  6. 16. Movement movement to end slavery, whether formal or informal
  7. 17. Douglas united States abolitionist who escaped from slavery and became an influential writer and lecturer in the North
  8. 20. "Stonewall" Jackson was a Confederate general during the American Civil War, and one of the best-known Confederate commanders after General Robert E. Lee
Down
  1. 1. Tubman United States abolitionist born a slave on a plantation in Maryland and became a famous conductor on the Underground Railroad leading other slaves to freedom in the North
  2. 2. Plan an outline strategy for subduing the seceding states in the American Civil War
  3. 3. Sisters were 19th-century Southern American Quakers, educators and writers who were early advocates of abolitionism and women's rights
  4. 4. T. Sherman an American soldier, businessman, educator and author. He served as a General in the Union Army during the American Civil War, for which he received recognition for his outstanding command of military strategy
  5. 5. Proclamation an executive order issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, as a war measure during the American Civil War, to all segments of the Executive branch of the United State
  6. 6. Crisis United States government wanting to enforce tariffs and South Carolina’s authority to nullify such laws
  7. 8. S. Grant was the 18th President of the United States following his successful role as a general in the second half of the Civil War
  8. 9. Douglas United States politician who proposed that individual territories be allowed to decide whether they would have slavery; he engaged in a famous series of debates with Abraham Lincoln
  9. 10. McClellan was an American medical doctor and a grandson of George McClellan, also a doctor
  10. 12. occurring or existing before a particular war, esp. the American Civil War
  11. 13. Browns Raid an attempt by the white abolitionist John Brown to start an armed slave revolt in 1859 by seizing a United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia
  12. 15. Slave Law The fugitive slave laws were laws passed by the United States Congress in 1793 and 1850 to provide for the return of slaves who escaped from one state into another state or territory
  13. 18. E. Lee American general who led the Confederate Armies in the American Civil War
  14. 19. Scott vs. Sanford a black slave whose suit for freedom (1857) was denied by the U.S. Supreme Court on the grounds that a slave was not a citizen and therefore could not sue in a federal court