Civil War Review

3. He carried out the midnight execution in Kansas and failed to seize the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry.
6. During the war, the North was called this.
7. During the war, the South was called this.
9. The Union's war strategy, which included blockading southern ports and controlling the Mississippi River.
10. Which side had a larger population, more money, an existing navy, and more transportation?
14. The Confederacy shocked the world when they won this first battle of the war.
15. The ___ Compromise banned slavery north of the 36-30 line of latitude.
18. The siege at this location started the Civil War.
20. He was an escaped slave whose autobiography and public speeches convinced many to support abolitionism.
21. The name for the "mini civil war" that broke out as a result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
22. The Emancipation Proclamation freed enslaved people in ___ states ONLY.
23. He won the election of 1860 without a single southern vote.
24. Lincoln lost a series of public debates to this man, but did make a name for himself in the new Republican Party.

1. This state entered the Union as a free state after the Compromise of 1850.
2. This President removed Native Americans from southern lands to make room for more plantations.
4. The idea that the people should vote whether to have slavery in new states.
5. Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote this book, which opened many people's eyes to the horrors of slavery.
8. This battle was the final turning point, and make it clear the Union would win the war.
10. The idea that states could determine that federal laws were illegal and not follow them.
11. She was known as the "Black Moses" of the Underground Railroad.
12. Sherman's March to the Sea is an example of THIS, which means to crush the enemy by any means necessary.
13. The victory here gave the Union control over the Mississippi River.
16. Which side had the advantage of fighting on their own soil?
17. In this case, SCOTUS ruled that enslaved people were not citizens and could not sue in a court of law.
19. When a state formally withdraws from our country.