Chapter 4.1 and 4.2: the Civil War

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Across
  1. 7. She wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin." This opened the eyes of people in the north and the world about the treatment of slaves.
  2. 9. Two words. The first major battle of the Civil War only 30 miles from Washington, DC.
  3. 12. He was called Stonewall by his men. A Confederate general who died before the war ended, shot by one of his own men.
  4. 16. The only president of the Confederacy.
  5. 17. One of the Union's best generals.
  6. 18. The formal withdrawal of a state or states from the Union.
  7. 22. She was one of the "conductors" on the Underground Railroad bringing many slaves to freedom in Canada.
  8. 23. The capital city of the Confederacy.
  9. 24. A battle won by the Union in Pennsylvania.
Down
  1. 1. He was beaten by a cane by Congressman Preston "Bully" Brooks.
  2. 2. The bloodiest day of the whole war. In Maryland.
  3. 3. This Compromise in 1820 brought in a new slave state. It also brought in Maine as a free state.
  4. 4. The best general of the Confederacy.
  5. 5. A new political party and Lincoln was its first president.
  6. 6. He ran against Lincoln for U.S. Senate and won. He ran against Lincoln for President and lost. Also from Illinois.
  7. 8. The South.
  8. 10. He went to Kansas to stir up trouble with guns by killing pro-slavery people. He also stirred up trouble in Harper's Ferry, Virginia. He got caught, tried, found guilty and hanged.
  9. 11. The Compromise of 1850 brought this state into the Union as a free state.
  10. 13. In 1854, Pres. Pierce signed this into law allowing two territories to decide on their own if they wanted slavery or to be free states. It is called the ...-...Act.
  11. 14. The prolcmation by Lincoln freeing the slaves.
  12. 15. The right of the people in a territory to vote on whether to become a slave state or free state. Popular ...
  13. 19. A battle won by the Union on the Mississippi River the day after Gettysburg.
  14. 20. He moved to a free state (Illinois) claiming to be free. The Supreme Court said he was not free but someone's property and could be brought anywhere.
  15. 21. The Compromise of 1850 stated that slaves who ran away had to be returned or the person hiding them could be fined or jailed or both. This is called the ...Slave Act.