Across
- 5. Kansas Civil War in Kansas over slavery
- 7. Slave Law Set high penalties for anyone who helped escaped slaves
- 9. of Gettysburg Civil War battle in Pennsylvania, that ended in Union victory
- 11. Affair Diplomatic incident in 1861, that threatened war between US and Britain
- 12. of 1857 Lowered duties on imports, pressure by southern farmers
- 15. Barton American Nurse who founded the American Red Cross
- 16. Known as one of the best Confederate general
- 19. Tariff Act Increased duties to raise revenues for the Civil War
- 20. Rams Two well armed ironclad war ships
- 22. Party Formed during 1864, prowar Democrats and Republicans
- 25. Gold Rush Inflow of thousands of miners to California after gold was found at Sutter's Mill
- 26. Virginia Region that broke away from Virginia in 1861 to form its own state
- 29. Scott enslaved african american man who sued for his freedom
- 30. Lincoln 16th U.S. President
Down
- 1. States The five slave states including Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, Delaware, and West Virginia
- 2. Beecher Stowe author who wrote Uncle Tom's cabin
- 3. Blackwell Helped to found the U.S. Sanitary Commission, first woman in American to receive medical degree
- 4. Railroad Network of secret routes and safe houses to help slaves escape to Canada
- 6. Amendment Prohibiting all forms of slavery and involuntary servitude
- 8. Sanitary Commission helped to professionalize nursing, founded with Elizabeth Blackwell
- 10. Proclamation Declared all slaves should be freed
- 13. Sumter where the first shots of Civil War were fired
- 14. Tom's Cabin anti-slavery novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe
- 17. of Canada Unified Canadian government created by Britain
- 18. Paper currency
- 21. of 1857 Financial crash
- 23. York Draft Riots Uprising in working Irish Americans, in protest of draft
- 24. Act A federal law that sold settlers 160 acres of land, to move to and live on
- 27. Address- Abraham Lincoln's speech
- 28. Banking System System of national banks that creates a stable national currency
