Across
- 2. The action of occupying or taking over a territory
- 7. Loyalty and devotion to a state or region as opposed to the whole country
- 10. Immigrants who fled famine in their homeland and experienced religious tension in the U.S.
- 14. Principle that the settlers of the new territories should decide if slavery would be legal there
- 16. Scorched earth policy in which Union army everything in their path
- 18. Admitted as a free state in the Compromise of 1850
- 19. The formal surrender of land or territory after the Mexican-American War
- 20. Attack by pro-slavery Senator Preston Brooks on anti-slavery Senator Charles Sumner
- 22. Attack on this fort marked the official beginning of the Civil War
- 25. Enslaved preacher who led a slave rebellion in Virginia in 1831
- 29. 1820 Compromise to maintain balance of political power between free and slave states
- 30. Policy of protecting the interests of native-born citizens against those of immigrants
Down
- 1. Proclamation issued by Lincoln to free slaves in rebellious Confederate states
- 3. Amendment granted citizenship to all persons "born or naturalized in the United States," including formerly enslaved people, and provided all citizens with “equal protection under the laws”
- 4. Militant abolitionist whose raid on a federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry further intensified sectional animosities
- 5. Second state to secede from the Union
- 6. 1840s congressional proposal to limit slavery's expansion into the territories
- 8. 1858 senatorial candidate stated that ¨a house divided against itself cannot stand,¨ later won presidential election of 1860
- 9. Amendment abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime
- 11. Group of Republicans known for their opposition to slavery, their efforts to ensure emancipation and civil rights for Black Americans, and their strong opinions on post-war Reconstruction
- 12. First state to secede from the Union
- 13. Abolitionist and women's rights advocate was one of the first women of any race to speak in public on social and political issues in the U.S.
- 15. Enslaved man who unsuccessfully sued for his freedom and Supreme Court ruled on his case in 1857
- 17. Military plan to strangle the Confederacy’s ability to trade or receive resources through its naval blockade of Southern ports and coastline
- 21. 1993 Civil War movie ¨starring¨ Mr. Warren's dad and depicting military turning point
- 23. 19th century belief that the expansion of the U.S. was justified and inevitable
- 24. The period after the Civil War (1865 to 1877), during which the U.S. grappled with the challenges of reintegrating the former Confederate states into the Union
- 26. Political party formed in 1854 from anti-slavery Whigs and Free Soilers
- 27. Action of formally withdrawing from the Union
- 28. Amendment granted African American men the right to vote