Civil War

5. An international organization dedicated to the medical care of the sick or wounded in wars and natural disasters.
10. Nurse during the Civil War; founder of the American Red Cross.
11. General of the Confederacy.
12. States between the north and the south: Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri.
14. A group of northern Democrats who opposed abolition and sympathized with the South during the Civil War.
15. The defeat of Robert E. Lee's invading Confederate Army was a major victory for the Union.
17. A very bloody battle in the civil war.
18. 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.
19. General for the Union, later became 18th President.
20. A policy of favoring native-born individuals over foreign-born ones.

1. To separate from the Union.
2. Virginia, July 1st, 1861. This was the first major land battle of Civil War.
3. South Carolina, April 12-14, 1861. This was the start of the Civil War.
4. The location of a brutal massacre in which confederate troops shot more than 200 black prisoners and some whites.
6. A former slave who sued for his freedom in the Supreme Court.
7. She led over 300 slaves to freedom, because of her bravery she is the symbol of the Underground Railroad.
8. A political party dedicated to stopping the expansion of slavery.
9. President of the Confederacy.
13. A person who worked to end slavery.
16. The treatment of people as property. People who are denied freedom in this way are said to be enslaved.