Across
- 3. When people support what is best for a state, section, or region over what is best for the whole nation
- 7. Supreme Court decision that held two extremely detrimental rulings: 1 that African Americans were not citizens and 2 that the Missouri Compromise was UNCONSTITUTIONAL, so it seemed like the federal government supported slavery.
- 8. An advantage the Confederacy had over the Union as the Union had to keep coming into the south.
- 9. Passageway used by slaves to escape to the North or Canada
- 10. Raid of a federal arsenal by a prominent abolitionist to attempt to start a slave rebellion. Encouraged more northerners to become abolitionists.
- 12. Amendment that outlawed slavery
- 15. The reason African slaves started to replace Native American slaves in the Americas
- 21. Invention that increased the production of cotton which led to a need for more people to work the land to keep up with production.
- 23. Union strategy to surround and choke out the South
- 24. Focused on industrialization
- 25. Compromise that saw balance kept between slave and free states by adding Maine and Missouri to the United States. Also outlawed slavery north of the 36'30" line.
- 26. Turning point of the war as a huge Union victory
Down
- 1. Bloodiest single day in American history
- 2. Opening shots of the war and a Confederate victory
- 4. Focused on agricultural development of grain
- 5. First state to leave the union
- 6. Election that showcased the sectional splits in the United States. Republican Abraham Lincoln will win this, as the Democratic party splits its votes into Northern and Southern Democrats- Northern Democrats favored Douglas and popular sovereignty, while the Southern Democrats supported the Supreme Court’s decision in the Dred Scott case
- 11. Freed slaves in states at war with the Union
- 13. Story written by Harriet Beecher Stowe that influenced many men and women to join the abolition movement, it showed the world the horrors of slavery
- 14. The result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act as pro-slavery and anti-slavery groups began a mini Civil War.
- 16. The question of slavery should be determined by the people within a particular state by a popular vote, not the federal government.
- 17. Siege of the last Confederate stronghold on the Mississippi River
- 18. Compromise that saw California enter as a free state in exchange for creating a new Fugitive Slave Act. Additionally, slave trade was banned in Washington DC in exchange for the Mexican Cession territory being open to popular sovereignty over the issue of slavery.
- 19. The lenient plan of Reconstruction that tried to heal the nation while also supporting freed African Americans by giving them land
- 20. The most forgiving (you might say too forgiving) plan for the South which was created by a Southerner as President. It led to freedmen's rights being kicked to the curb.
- 22. Focused on the agricultural development of cash crops like cotton and tobacco
- 27. This plan is the one that ended up being used the most and saw some success while in effect as African Americans were elected to political office in the South