Beginning of Civil War

Edit Answers
1234567891011121314151617181920212223242526272829303132333435363738394041
Across
  1. 2. After the attack on Fort Sumter, Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and this state all joined the confederacy
  2. 7. Another word for all branches of armed forces
  3. 8. Slave Act Southerners felt as though Northerners broke this law purposly
  4. 9. system Northern advantage that led to raising more money
  5. 12. The South often had to play this strategy - hoping the North would eventually give up
  6. 13. Sumter Unofficially, the first battle of the Civil War
  7. 16. The side that started the attack on Fort Sumter
  8. 19. In the election of 1860, Nothern states had more of these kind of votes
  9. 21. Temporary capital of the Southern states
  10. 22. Compromise Line that Crittenden wanted to extend all the way to the pacific ocean
  11. 24. The party of Lincoln
  12. 30. Territory where Scott once lived that he used to justify his freedom
  13. 32. ruffians People from Missouri who came into Kansas
  14. 34. fifty Compromise needed because of the results of the Mexican American War
  15. 36. Rights The justification, or reason, given by southern states to explain secession
  16. 37. Democratic Winner of the election of 1856 who was still in office when South Carolina seceeded
  17. 40. Cash crop of the Southleading up to the Civil War
  18. 41. Animal that Scott named his plan after
Down
  1. 1. Virginia This teritorry separarted from itself to join the Union in 1863
  2. 3. Crisis that South Carolina went through and nearly seceeded during the era of Andrew Jackson over the issue of tariffs
  3. 4. As the new president, Lincoln's goal was not save this...
  4. 5. According Scott V Sandford, slaves are not considered one of these...
  5. 6. Purchase after the Mexican American War that completes the dream of Manifest Destiny
  6. 10. Winfield Scott proposed blocking the Southern ports of the Atlantic and here, to prevent the South from supplying itself
  7. 11. Party that split into 2 because it could not agree over the issue of slavery
  8. 14. Davis President of the South
  9. 15. Candidate in election of 1860 that appealed to border states between the North and South who wanted to preserve the union
  10. 17. Chief justice who oversaw Dred Scott V Sandford
  11. 18. The number of governments in Kansas as a result of popular sovereignty
  12. 20. Last name of a famous southern general who graduated alongside Jefferson Davis at West Point
  13. 21. Before being president, Jefferson Davis was a senator from this state
  14. 23. and Great Britain The South hoped these two would step in after their cotton exports were no longer able to be sold
  15. 25. sovereignty In other words, to vote
  16. 26. Clay Creator of both compromises
  17. 27. Home state of Crittenden
  18. 28. To leave or withdraw
  19. 29. The side with a smaller population
  20. 31. trade Abolished in Washington DC
  21. 33. Capital of the Confederacy
  22. 35. First name of the guy who wanted to make territory from Mexico free territory
  23. 37. states Examples include Mississippi, Kentucky, Maryland, and Delaware
  24. 38. and Louisiana Two states that seceeded from the union along with South Carolina. First state has 7 letters the second has 9
  25. 39. Ferry John Brown raid that led to his arrest and eventual execution