Across
- 5. the period of time following the end of the Civil War
- 7. an agreement or a settlement of a dispute that is reached by each side making concessions
- 8. the most prominent conducter of the Underground Railroad
- 9. Slave Act the bill that required that all escaped slaves, upon capture, be returned to the slaver
- 10. Sovereignty the political doctrine which stated that the residents of territories should decide for themselves whether their territories would enter the Union as free or slave states
- 11. the 1854 act which repealed the Missouri Compromise and heavily contributed to the rise in tensions that would ultimately culminate into the start of the Civil War
- 13. tasked with protecting the Union Army's right and rear during the Battle of Gettysburg
Down
- 1. the 16th president of the United States
- 2. the compromise that instilled the principle of popular sovereignty and ratified the fugitive slave act
- 3. marched from Atlanta to Savannah
- 4. the action of withdrawing formally from membership of a federation or body
- 6. the Democratic presidential nominee of the 1860 election who also drafted the Kansas-Nebraska Act
- 12. the main cause of the Civil War