Civil War

5. condition in which one human being was owned by another
6. the first African American from Texas to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor (first name)
7. the battle where the union wanted to prevent the confederates trading cotton with Mexico
8. revoke or annul a law
10. a confederate general (first name only)
12. people who wanted to take the law into their own hands
14. people who wanted to focus on what benefited their regions rather than a nation as a whole

1. people who wanted to end slavery
2. the battle where the confederates won against the Union even though they were outnumbered
3. a formerly enslaved person
4. president that supported the Union cause (last name)
5. free from outside control; self-governing
9. a person who supported the Union
11. the number of states that succeeded by January 1861
13. Southerners believed this would hurt them economically because imports would cost more