Civil War Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 4. A self-taught lawyer, legislator and vocal opponent of slavery, was elected 16th president of the United States in November 1860, shortly before the outbreak of the Civil War.
  2. 6. People who do not agree with slavery and want to get rid of it.
  3. 7. States that were located in the South during the Civil War, and seceded from the union.
  4. 8. The incorporation of new territory into the domain of a city, country, or state.
Down
  1. 1. States that were located in the North during the Civil War.
  2. 2. A belief that states should be left to make decisions (such as slavery) by themselves.
  3. 3. A slave who had lived with his owner in a free state before returning to the slave state of Missouri.
  4. 5. To formally withdraw or leave a union.