Across
- 4. President of the confederate states.
- 7. A law that admitted Missouri to the Union as a slave state and Maine as a free state
- 8. The act that split Nebraska and Kansas into two by building a railroad in between the two states, making Nebraska a free state, and making Kansas a slave state.
- 13. The southern part of the United States that split away from the north (consisted of slave states).
- 14. An abolitionist that was fought in Bleeding Kansas, and was executed for a failed incitement of a slave rebellion at Harpers Ferry.
- 15. Former leader of the Texian army.
Down
- 1. A naval and land battle of the American Civil War, when Confederate forces under Major Gen. John B. Magruder expelled occupying Union troops from the city of Galveston, Texas on January 1, 1863.
- 2. The battle in which union forces hoped to gain access to Texas by capturing Sabine Pass, where the Sabine River flows into the Gulf of Mexico. A foothold there would allow Union troops to mount attacks into the interior of Texas.
- 3. Texas's first confederate governor.
- 5. The people who supported the south during the Civil War
- 6. 16th U.S. president.
- 9. Laws that restricted the rights of freed people.
- 10. 18th U.S. president
- 11. Someone who supported the north, and was against slavery.
- 12. The rights that states have that give them the ability to exercise their constitutional power, without the interference of the federal government.