Civil War

2. a public or official announcement, especially one dealing with a matter of great importance.
5. Davis, an American politician who was a U.S. Representative and Senator from Mississippi, the 23rd U.S. Secretary of War, and the President of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War.
7. a person who rises in opposition or armed resistance against an established government or ruler.
8. Scott Case, landmark decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court held that African
10. whether enslaved or free you have no rights.
13. Slave Act, passed by the United States Congress on September 18, 1850, as part of the Compromise of 1850 between Southern slave-holding interests and Northern Free-Soilers.
17. Railroad, a network of secret routes and safe houses used by 19th-century enslaved people of African descent in the United States in efforts to escape to free states and Canada with the aid of abolitionists and allies who were sympathetic to their cause.
18. Compromise, Compromise set where Missouri became a slave state and Maine a free state.
19. E. Lee, General of the Confederacy
21. Battle that started the war.

1. was a confederation of secessionist American states existing from 1861 to 1865
3. The bloodiest battle of the Civil War.
4. withdraw formally from membership in a federal union, an alliance, or a political or religious organization.
6. Kansas, A violent crisis that enveloped Kansas after Congress passed the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854.
9. War, fought from 1861 to 1865 to determine the survival of the Union or independence for the Confederacy.
11. Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865.
12. of 1850, Compromise set to make the north and south happy by making CA a free state
14. the state of being united or joined.
15. People opposed to slavery
16. state, state that doesn't allow slavery
20. Sovereignty, The idea that citizens in the West should vote to determine whether their respective territories would become free states or slave states upon admission to the Union.