Civil War

1. Referred to as the Confederacy . Name of the unrecognized ¨country¨ temporarily created by the southern states which seceded from the union.
8. Someone who wishes to abolish or get rid of slavery.
10. Act Law allowed those territories to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery by utilizing popular voting.
12. Slave states that stayed with the United States during the civil war.
13. 16th president, he was president during the Civil War
17. The action of formally withdrawing from a federation
19. A war between citizens of the same country. The American civil war was a war between Americans over states rights. It was a 4 year war and over 600,000 Americans died.
20. An enslaved African American man, he unsuccessfully sued for his freedom, and the case went to the supreme court.

2. The 13th amendment abolished slavery, and the 14th granted all citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the U.S. . 15th prohibited the denial of the vote because of race, color, or previous servitude.
3. Required all escaped slaves to be returned to their masters and that citizens of free states must cooperate.
4. of 1850 California wanted to join the union as a free state which caused conflict between the North and the South
5. To be set free. Lincoln's emancipation proclamation set free all slaves in the confederacy only.
6. Numerous laws enacted in the former Confederate states after the civil war limited the rights and liberties of African Americans.
7. A place where weapons and other military supplies are stored.
9. Abolitionist, Led attacks in Kansas during ¨bleeding Kansas¨, planned to arm slaves in a revolt.
11. The largest organizational group of soldiers, made up of one or more corps.
14. The period of U.S. history immediately following the Civil War in which the conditions that would allow the rebellious Southern states back into the Union.
15. To lie in wait for an unexpected attack.
16. An anti-slavery novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe. It helped spread the abolitionist movement throughout the north.
18. marked the official beginning of the American Civil Wa