Fact Tracker Abe Lincoln Ch 6 Pages 79-87

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Across
  1. 2. Southern states began to vote to ________ from, or leave, the United States and become a separate nation. P. 87
  2. 7. 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).
  3. 8. Northern states were called the __________. P. 87
  4. 9. 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
  5. 11. 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
  6. 12. This word means “full of constant or frantic activity.” P. 80
  7. 14. Tad and Willie kept the White House in an _________, racing through the halls and up and down the stairs. P. 83
  8. 16. A ________ is a huge farm whose owners depended on slave labor. P. 86
  9. 17. These seven southern states named their new nation the Confederate States of America and named ________ Davis as their president. P. 87
Down
  1. 1. The halls of the White House were filled with people there to ask the president for ________ jobs. P. 80-81
  2. 3. The North had more cities and _________ than the South. P. 85
  3. 4. After South Carolina seceded, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, ____________ and Texas seceded as well. P. 87
  4. 5. Southern states were called the ____________. P. 87
  5. 6. 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. 8. The Southerners felt that the government was too powerful and taxed them _________. P. 87
  7. 10. Most people in the South were farmers who grew rice, tobacco, _________, and cotton. P. 85-86
  8. 13. President Lincoln’s oldest son, __________, was with him, as he headed to Washington, D.C. P. 79
  9. 15. Along the railroad tracks, people lined the tracks to wave and _______ the new president well. P. 80