Civil War

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