Civil War Crossword

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Across
  1. 8. – The Vice President of the Confederacy and a supporter of the Georgia Platform.
  2. 12. – A law requiring that runaway slaves be returned to their owners, even if they had escaped to free states.
  3. 17. – The act of formally withdrawing from a nation, as the Southern states did from the Union.
  4. 18. – A major Civil War battle fought in Georgia, resulting in a Confederate victory but ultimately benefiting the Union.
  5. 20. – The idea that states can ignore or invalidate federal laws they believe are unconstitutional.
  6. 21. – A Union general known for his "March to the Sea," which devastated Georgia.
  7. 22. – Loyalty to one’s own region rather than to the country as a whole, a major cause of the Civil War.
Down
  1. 1. – A notorious Confederate prisoner-of-war camp in Georgia known for its harsh conditions and high death rate.
  2. 2. – The official approval or confirmation of a law, treaty, or constitutional amendment.
  3. 3. – General Sherman’s destructive campaign from Atlanta to Savannah, aimed at crippling the Confederacy.
  4. 4. – The President of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War.
  5. 5. – A system of government in which power is divided between a central authority and individual states.
  6. 6. – A Supreme Court case ruling that African Americans were not citizens and that Congress could not ban slavery in the territories.
  7. 7. – The idea that people in a territory should decide for themselves whether to allow slavery.
  8. 8. – The period before the Civil War, particularly in the South.
  9. 9. – A set of laws designed to ease tensions between free and slave states, including the Fugitive Slave Act and California’s admission as a free state.
  10. 10. – An 1820 agreement that allowed Missouri to enter as a slave state and Maine as a free state while banning slavery north of the 36°30′ latitude.
  11. 11. – The election in which Abraham Lincoln became president, leading to the secession of Southern states.
  12. 13. – The Northern states that fought to preserve the United States during the Civil War.
  13. 14. – The belief that individual states have the power to govern themselves with minimal federal interference.
  14. 15. – The Union’s naval strategy to prevent the Confederacy from trading goods and receiving supplies.
  15. 16. – A tax on imported goods, often used to protect domestic industries.
  16. 19. – A person who wanted to end slavery in the United States.