Fact Tracker Abe Lincoln Ch 6 Pages 79-87

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Across
  1. 3. The North had more cities and _________ than the South. P. 85
  2. 5. Most people in the South were farmers who grew rice, tobacco, _________, and cotton. P. 85-86
  3. 6. Tad and Willie often burst into cabinet meetings to tell their Dad “___________” things. P. 83 (Cabinet meetings are private, closed-door sessions with the president, vice president and every other executive officer in the line of presidential succession are found in the same room).
  4. 9. Along the railroad tracks, people lined the tracks to wave and _______ the new president well. P. 80
  5. 12. A ________ is a huge farm whose owners depended on slave labor. P. 86
  6. 15. Southern states were called the ____________. P. 87
  7. 16. Southern states began to vote to ________ from, or leave, the United States and become a separate nation. P. 87
  8. 17. The Southerners felt that the government was too powerful and taxed them _________. P. 87
  9. 18. Tad and Willie kept the White House in an _________, racing through the halls and up and down the stairs. P. 83
Down
  1. 1. These seven southern states named their new nation the Confederate States of America and named ________ Davis as their president. P. 87
  2. 2. The halls of the White House were filled with people there to ask the president for ________ jobs. P. 80-81
  3. 4. Northern states were called the __________. P. 87
  4. 7. The Washington ____________ was only half finished when President Lincoln lived in the White House. Built to honor George Washington, the United States' first president, the 555-foot marble obelisk towers over Washington, D.C. P. 82
  5. 8. This river of the eastern U.S. rises in the Appalachian Mountains in West Virginia and flows about 285 miles through Washington, D.C. into Chesapeake Bay. P. 82
  6. 10. This word means “full of constant or frantic activity.” P. 80
  7. 11. Lincoln’s oldest son, __________, was with him, as he headed to Washington, D.C. P. 79
  8. 13. After South Carolina seceded, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, ____________ and Texas seceded as well. P. 87
  9. 14. This word means “ill-feelings, or friction; a feeling of fear or anger between two groups of people who do not trust each other.” P. 85