Civil War

2. dealt with the issue of slavery and territorial expansion.
9. withdrawal of eleven southern states from the Union in 1860
10. Compromise of 1850
12. Meade's Union forces defeated Lee's Confederate army
16. an escaped slave who became a prominent activist, author and public speaker.
17. president elected in 1860
18. repealed the missouri compromise
19. a president of the confederate states of america
20. A person in favor of abolishing some law, custom, etc.

1. Stephen Douglas' position that slavery could be excluded from a territory if officials did not pass laws to protect it.
3. the document writte by lincoln that govermently freed all the southern slaves
4. what the confederate soldiers thought they were fighting for
5. court case decided that slaves who were descendants of American slaves were not citizens of the United States
6. The act required that slaves be returned to their owners
7. fort controlled by the union in S.C
8. the opposite of democratic party
11. a document written in 1854 to annex cuba
13. abolitonist raid on harpers ferry
14. the unions plan to ruin the southern economy
15. exaggerated devotion to the interests of a region over those of a country as a whole.