A NATION DIVIDED CROSSWORD

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Across
  1. 4. Lincoln used this new technology in his control center
  2. 6. The lead general of the South (Last name)
  3. 7. This is the system where Poor Blacks and Whites rented land from plantation owners and paid the owner in a portion of their crops
  4. 10. This amendment abolished slavery and forced labor in the United States
  5. 11. As America took over more western lands, there was increasing disagreement about whether slavery would expand. Louisiana Purchase and Mexican Cession caused conflict.
  6. 14. a border state that made a compromise at the 36'30 line
Down
  1. 1. When the US took Texas, Mexico and the US went to war over the boundary (rivers). US wins and takes ½ of Mexico (Mexican Cession)
  2. 2. These laws created by southern states limited the freedom of free blacks
  3. 3. Lincoln's famous 2 minute speech
  4. 5. Lincoln's famous proclamation freeing enslaved people in rebelling states
  5. 6. An abolitionist newspaper founded by William Lloyd Garrison.
  6. 8. The deadliest battle in U.S History
  7. 9. Machine made by Eli Whitney, it makes cotton picking 50x more effective
  8. 12. Frederick Douglass, an escaped slave and abolitionist, founded the North Star which was an abolitionist newspaper.
  9. 13. The Union general in the Battle of Vicksburg and a future president (Last name)