US History: Civil War

3. an abolitionist described by a historian as a "man made of the stuff of saints"
6. an act stating that under the law, runaway slaves who had escaped to the North could be arrested and sent back
7. Henry Clay's compromise addressing free and slave states
10. a sluggish creek that two armies led by McClellan and Lincoln
12. the formal withdrawal of a state from the Union
13. formed by nativists better known as the Know-Nothing Party
16. an editor of the New York Tribune
17. formed on July 6 in Michigan

1. a soft lead bullet used in the Civil War that was more destrictive than earlier bullets
2. the right of residents of a territory to vote for or against slavery
4. the only thing that free people could teach slaves
5. the favoring of native-born Americans over immigrants
6. states that do not support slavery
8. the state Harriet Tubman went to for freedom after her owner died
9. northern Democrats who advocated peace with the South
11. an unrecognized nation formed by 11 southern US states
14. the single greatest importer of American cotton before the Civil War
15. a gun that was more accurate than old-fashioned muskets used in the Civil War