Civil War

2. Abe Lincoln gets election
4. the state of being a slave.
7. was enslaved, escaped, and helped others gain their freedom as a “conductor" of the Underground Railroad.
9. series of seven debates between the Democratic senator and Republican challenger during the 1858
11. A novel, first published Harriet Beecher Stowe
12. fought from July 1 to July 3, 1863, is considered the most important engagement of the American Civil War.
13. Act repealed the Missouri Compromise, created two new territories, and allowed for popular sovereignty
14. Secession, as it applies to the outbreak of the American Civil War, comprises the series of events that began on December 20, 1860
15. A Raid
16. militant American abolitionist and veteran of Bleeding Kansas whose raid on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry

1. is an island fortification located in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina
3. passed in 1820
5. an escaped slave who became a prominent activist, author and public speaker
6. a war between citizens of the same country
8. The Act was one of the most controversial elements of the 1850 compromise and heightened Northern fears of a slave power conspiracy
10. A case in which the Court decided that slaves who were descendants of American slaves were not citizens of the United States