Across
- 3. A person who wanted to eliminate or "abolish" slavery.
- 4. A warship that is fully covered and protected by iron cladding.
- 7. A presidential proclamation that nominally freed all slaves in the Confederacy.
- 8. The killing of five proslavery men near Pottawatomie Creek, Kansas, by John Brown.
- 9. Effectively ruled that slaves were property.
Down
- 1. A novel, published by Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1852, that turned Northern public opinion against slavery and the South.
- 2. A series of public debates between the former congressman Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas.
- 5. A bundle of legislation where California was admitted as a free state.
- 6. The name given to the states that stayed loyal to the United States government. Also called the North.