Across
- 2. became president when Zachary Taylor died in office
- 4. signed the Kansas Nebraska Act even though it violated the Missouri Compromise
- 7. main leader of the Confederate Army
- 12. first black American elected into Congress
- 13. led a group of men into Harper's Ferry and freed the slaves there
- 14. founded the Tuskegee Institute and taught hundreds of African Americans there
- 15. ran against Lincoln in the 1860 election
Down
- 1. wrote the Novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin"
- 3. actor who shot and killed Abraham Lincoln
- 5. remembered for his nickname "Old Rough and Ready"
- 6. founded the Hampton Institute for vocational training for freedmen
- 8. was chosen to be the first president of the Confederacy
- 9. remembered for his Seventh of March Speech
- 10. helped begin a department of agriculture for African Americans
- 11. no one on the face of the Earth can guard this man in basketball