US History

2. eliminate slavery
3. agreement between the federal government and the southern states to keep the South from seceding.
4. a largely southern political party that favored slavery.
5. a confederate sympathizer and professional actor.
6. largest battle of the American Civil War.
8. location of a major civil war battle in Maryland.
9. a speech that was given by president Abraham Lincoln.
12. 1820 to appease slave state concerns over a federal abolition of slavery.
13. a union stronghold in South Carolina.
15. a union general who served under President Lincoln.
16. the 16th president

1. issued on January 1, 1863.
7. a new political party that emerged in the North in the mid 1800's.
10. is the act of a state to leave the nation under which it belongs and become a sovereign nation of its own.
11. president of the Confederate states of America.
14. general of the confederate troops during the Civil War.