Across
- 2. Clay Senator who supported the Compromise of 1850
- 5. President of the Union
- 8. This act made assisting a fugitive slave to freedom in any way a crime punishable by fine or imprisonment
- 9. To break away from the rest of the states, form their own nation
- 13. This compromise allowed California to be admitted as a free state, new territories in the west would be decided by popular sovereignty, and the Fugitive Slave Law
- 15. Warships with very tough Oak walls with iron sheets on the sides
- 18. The North
- 20. Unfair treatment
- 23. Address by Lincoln in which he "freed" the enslaved people of the South
- 24. Soldiers on horseback
- 25. The South
- 26. A system where residents vote to decide an issue
- 27. An unfair opinion not based on facts
- 28. Established that Congress could not ban slavery and slaves could not sue for their freedom since they are not citizens
- 29. Laws in a Southern state that controlled enslaved people
- 30. In the civil war the states between the north and the south: delaware, mayland, kentucky, and missouri
Down
- 1. First state to secede from the United States
- 3. Famous Confederate General who surrendered to General Grant
- 4. A system of cooperation to aid and house enslaved people who had escaped
- 6. The right of states to limit the power of the federal government
- 7. These people believed that since the states voluntarily joined the Union, they can also choose to leave.
- 10. President of the Confederacy
- 11. People who sought to end slavery in the United States in the early 1800s
- 12. The compromise that blocked slavery north of 36*30' N
- 14. This act repealed the Missouri Compromise and called for popular sovereignty to decide whether slavery would be allowed within new states
- 16. Senate Debates which set the stage for Lincoln's presidential campaign event though he didn't win the Senate seat
- 17. Lead the raid of Harper's Ferry in 1858
- 19. Armed forces prevent the transportation of goods or people into and out of an area
- 21. The main export of the Southern Economy
- 22. Turning point of the War that made it clear the North would win. 50,000 people died, and the South lost its chance to invade the North.
