Across
- 1. Laws meant to limit rights of black people and keep them as landless workers.
- 8. Political party that wanted to keep slavery out of newly acquired lands.
- 10. Wrote Uncle Toms Cabin
- 12. Act that made western land available for cheap to anyone willing to farm it.
- 14. Advantages included: Population size, more railroads, more factories
- 16. Volunteer regiment from Massachusetts that earned respect for its courage and discipline.
- 17. Officially started the Civil War.
- 18. that nullified the Missouri Compromise, but kept balance of power in Congress.
- 20. Mississippi Senator turned Confederate President.
- 21. Amendment that defined a citizen and guaranteed equal rights.
Down
- 2. For every soldier who died in battle, two died from this.
- 3. Advantages included: Defensive war, generals, fighting for survival.
- 4. Antislavery town raided by border ruffians, J.Brown retaliates and kills 5 proslavery settlers.
- 5. Union plan to block southern ports, prevent trade, and control the Mississippi to divide the south in two.
- 6. Admitted California as a free state.
- 7. Amendment that ended slavery.
- 9. Was not underground nor a railroad
- 11. "Little Giant"
- 13. Laws meant to nullify the Fugitive Slave Act and arrest slave catchers for kidnapping.
- 15. Amendment, forbid states to deny suffrage based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
- 19. Supreme Court ruled him property
- 20. Led failed attempt to raid federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry.
