Across
- 2. An international organization dedicated to the medical care of the sick or wounded in wars and natural disasters
- 5. A policy of favoring native-born individuals over foreign-born ones
- 8. South Carolina, April 12-14, 1861. This was the start of the Civil War
- 9. states between the north and the south: Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri
- 11. General for the Union, later became 18th President
- 12. The location of a brutal massacre in which confederate troops shot more than 200 black prisoners and some whites.
- 15. To separate from the Union.
- 16. Act passed in 1854 that created Kansas and Nebraska territories and abolished the Missouri Compromise by allowing states to determine whether slavery would be allowed in new territories.
- 18. A very bloody battle in the civil war
- 19. Virginia, July 1st, 1861. This was the first major land battle of Civil War
Down
- 1. A group of northern Democrats who opposed abolition and sympathized with the South during the Civil War
- 2. General of the Confederacy
- 3. A former slave who sued for his freedom in the Supreme Court.
- 4. President of the Confederacy.
- 6. The treatment of people as property. People who are denied freedom in this way are said to be enslaved.
- 7. A political party dedicated to stopping the expansion of slavery
- 10. Nurse during the Civil War; founder of the American Red Cross
- 13. the defeat of Robert E. Lee's invading Confederate Army was a major victory for the Union.
- 14. She led over 300 slaves to freedom, because of her bravery she is the symbol of the Underground Railroad
- 17. A person who worked to end slavery.