Across
- 4. this amendment wanted to add Missouri as a free state, but the South blocked it
- 5. often seen as the WORST president in US history
- 6. the Civil War started with the attack on Fort _________
- 8. Henry ______ came up with several compromises to keep the nation from civil war
- 9. Homer Plessy fought this man in court which backfired creating the "separate but equal" principle
- 11. the bloodiest battle in American history
- 13. a horrible general with equally horrible facial hair
- 15. Johnson was the first president to be __________
- 17. a spy who told the South about the Anaconda plan
- 18. this proviso wanted to add all land gained from the Mexican-American War as free state, but the South blocked it
- 19. the only president of the Confederate States
- 21. the decision on whether this state should be free or enslaved led to a House Rep beating a Senator with his cane
- 22. name for the era BEFORE the Civil War
- 23. the new political party that replaced the Whigs
Down
- 1. name for the era AFTER the Civil War
- 2. General Thomas Jackson's nickname
- 3. this man won the Election of 1860 despite less than half of the US voting for him
- 7. the imaginary line that separated the North from the South is the _________-Dixon Line
- 9. this president took over for President Taylor when he died
- 10. acts passed by President Grant to combat the KKK
- 12. John Brown (and Mr. Fay's) hometown
- 14. Stephen ___________ beat Lincoln in the race for Senator, but lost to Lincoln in the race for President
- 16. Grant took over this city which gave him control of the Mississippi River
- 20. 11 states seceded from the US and formed the ______________ States of America
