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- 3. Capital city of the USA
- 5. Most famous black abolitionist; organized black regiments of Union soldiers too
- 7. Troops under this Northern general captured Atlanta in November 1864; then they cut a swath of destruction from Atlanta to Savannah (March to the Sea)
- 8. President of the USA
- 10. The North gave up their view that this war would be brief and have limited goals; instead they braced for ___ war, which would require a complete victory over the South: union, emancipation, and destruction
- 13. This court case (plaintiff's name run together)said a slave was property, not a citizen
- 14. Character in Harriet Beecher Stowe novel that aimed to show the world the horrors of Southern slave society
- 15. Pennsylvania battle that the Union won and that marked a turning point in the war; marks the norethernmost point reached by a major Southern force
- 16. Led a raid on the federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry in hopes of starting a slave rebellion and creating a free black state; considered a martyr by some, but Virginia hung him as a traitor
- 17. Lee surrendered at this court house on Palm Sunday, April 9, 1865
- 19. Capital city of the Confederacy
- 20. McClellan halted Lee here on one of the bloodiest days of the Civil War
- 21. After Antietam, Lincoln announced that the slaves would be freed in his ___ Proclamation
- 22. Political party that formed right after the Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed
- 23. The Compromise of 1850 dealt with questions about slavery in property acquired in this war
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- 1. The Compromise of 1850 allowed for this method of settling the slavery question in the new territories of Kansas and Nebraska (two words run together)
- 2. This compromise outlawed slavery above the 36-30 line
- 4. The ____ slave laws said that slaves had to be returned to their "masters" even if they escaped to a free state; in the Compromise of 1850 they put "teeth" in the law
- 6. President of the Confederacy
- 7. First shots of the war were fired at this fort
- 9. Said that, prior to 1808, Congress could not prohibit importation of slaves
- 11. An attempt to keep goods from going in and out of Southern ports so that the Confederacy could not resupply itself
- 12. Southern iron-plated warship that fought the Monitor at the Battle of Hampton Roads
- 18. People packed for this kind of outing when they went to watch the first Battle of Bull Run