Civil War Crossword

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Across
  1. 3. Confederate tactical victory. Union strategic victory. Dubbed the "Gettysburg of the West".
  2. 4. The issue of slavery in these new states would be decided by popular sovereignty.
  3. 6. An effort by Congress to defuse the sectional and political rivalries at the request of Missouri late in 1819 for admission as a state in which slavery would be permitted.
  4. 7. Antislavery protesters that took a stand against slavery
  5. 9. the siege ends; Grant accepts surrender of second Confederate army under Pemberton.
  6. 10. Withdraw formally from membership in a federal union, alliance, or a political or religious organization.
  7. 12. Lee loses to Meade, Pickett's Charge fails, ends second invasion of North. Confederate army arrived in Gettysburg to resupply army, unaware of Union army nearby.
  8. 15. She was known for writing "Uncle Tom's Cabin" that sold millions of copies for speaking against slavery.
  9. 16. He spoke out against slavery and published the "North Star" magazine.
  10. 18. the last quadrennial presidential election. It served as the immediate impetus for the outbreak of the American Civil War.
  11. 19. Since Scott wasn't a citizen the ruling was to allow slavery throughout the territory.
  12. 20. McClellan ends Lee's first invasion of North, bloodiest single day of the war.
  13. 21. Restriction of interest to a narrow sphere.
Down
  1. 1. The pathway that led slaves North or Canada.
  2. 2. The event in which John Brown and his men raided an arsenal in Harper's Ferry, then killed numerous people.
  3. 5. Laws passed by the U.S. Congress in 1793 and 1850 to provide for the return of slaves, who escaped from one state into another territory.
  4. 8. McDowell loses to J.E. Johnston, Beauregard; Jackson named "Stonewall".
  5. 11. A package of five separate bills passed by U.S. Congress to defuse a four-year political confrontation between free and slave states.
  6. 13. The period before the civil war and after the War of 1812.
  7. 14. She was a slave that helped others escape to the Underground Railroad.
  8. 17. The principle that the authority of a state and it's government is created and sustained by the consent of its people.