Across
- 2. election where Abraham Lincoln defeated three opponents to win the presidency; upon Lincoln’s election Southern states seceded from the Union
- 4. as a free state
- 5. Supreme Court ruling that declared slaves were not citizens of the United States
- 7. a naval strategy by the United States to prevent the Confederacy from trading. The Union wanted to try and choke off resupply to the South, and to prevent the shipment of arms,
- 8. and material to the Southern States
- 10. machine invented by Eli Whitney in 1793 that quickly removed seeds from the cotton
- 11. - important Georgia politician who was a U.S. Senator, Georgia Governor, and Vice-President of the Confederate States of America
Down
- 1. - compromise between the North and South that allowed California to enter the union in exchange for the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act - act that required runaway slaves to be returned to their masters if caught anywhere in the United States
- 2. document that declared all slaves in the rebellious states would be freed if the South did not return to the Union by January 1, 1863
- 3. compromise that brought Missouri into the Union as a slave state and
- 6. Something regard the amount of power a state government has in relation to the amount of power held by the federal government in making decisions
- 9. Georgia wanted something to expand and was distrustful of the abolitionist movement taking place in the North