Across
- 4. a devotion to the interests of one geographic region over the interests of the country as a whole
- 5. a statement made by Stephen Douglas during the Lincoln-Douglas debates that pointed out how people could use popular sovereignty to determine if their state or territory should permit slavery
- 6. to formally withdraw from the union
- 9. American Confederate general, he led the Shenandoah Valley campaign and fought with Lee in the Seven Days’ Battles and the First and Second Battles of Bull Run.
- 10. a political party formed in 1848 by antislavery northerners who left the Whig and Democratic parties because neither addressed the slavery issue
- 11. a political party formed in the 1850s to stop the spread of slavery in the West
- 13. an incident in which abolitionist John Brown and seven other men murdered pro-slavery Kansans
Down
- 1. the idea that political authority belongs to the people
- 2. a political party formed in 1860 by a group of northerners and southerners who supported the Union, its laws, and the Constitution
- 3. Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri; slave states that lay between the North and the South and did not join the Confederacy during the Civil War
- 7. Confederate efforts to use the importance of southern cotton to Britain’s textile industry to persuade the British to support the Confederacy in the Civil War
- 8. the nation formed by the southern states when they seceded from the Union; also known as the Confederacy
- 9. incident in which abolitionist John Brown and 21 other men captured a federal arsenal in Harpers Ferry, Virginia, in hope of starting a slave rebellion
- 12. a federal outpost in Charleston, South Carolina, that was attacked by the Confederates in April 1861, sparking the Civil War