Across
- 1. giving people government jobs based on loyalty
- 3. the most famous conductor of the underground railroad
- 7. the idea that citizens of new territories should decide whether to allow slavery or not
- 8. proclamation decree by Lincoln declaring all enslaved peoples in rebel states are free
- 9. the attack the started the Civil War
- 10. the immediate end of slavery
- 13. cotton, tobacco, rice and sugarcane
- 16. Book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe
- 18. a tax on imports or exports
- 19. another name for the Confederate states of America
Down
- 1. first state to secede from the Union
- 2. enslaved man from Missouri who tried to sue for his freedom
- 4. this allowed slave owners to recapture alleged runaway slaves in the North
- 5. a military blockade of a city or fortified place to force it to surrender
- 6. Helped slaves escape to the North or Canada
- 11. won the presidency in the election of 1860
- 12. abolitionist who led the seizure of Harper's Ferry
- 14. The decision by Congress to add Maine(a free state) and Missouri (a slave state) to maintain balance of slave/free states in the U.S.
- 15. forbade enslaved people from owning property, or testifying in court against a white person
- 17. invention by Eli Whitney in 1793