History Chapter 7

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Across
  1. 2. president of the Confederate states
  2. 4. – document declaring that all the slaves were free in states that had left the Union
  3. 7. – Supreme Court decisions that allowed slavery in the U.S. Territories
  4. 8. – battle that gave the Union army control of the Mississippi River cutting the Confederacy in half
  5. 9. – 13th president became president when Taylor died
  6. 10. – divided a section of western land into Kansas a slave state and Nebraska a free state
  7. 12. – to withdraw or leave the Union
  8. 14. Union ironclad ship
  9. 18. – law requiring people in free northern states to return runaway slaves to the south
  10. 19. – 12th United States President whose nickname was “Old Rough and Ready”
  11. 22. – war fought between the Union and Confederate States of America
  12. 25. – Agreement that attempted to balance power in the Senate between slave and free states
  13. 27. American Civil War began
  14. 28. – three minute speech by President Lincoln that honored both Union and Confederate soldiers
  15. 29. Confederate ironclad ship
  16. 30. – turning point of the Civil War
  17. 33. – where Abraham Lincoln was assassination
  18. 35. – abolitionists and former slave
  19. 36. – 16th president first republican president
  20. 37. – Commander of the Confederate Army
  21. 38. – deadliest battle of the Civil War
  22. 39. – 11 states that withdrew from the Union to form their own country
  23. 40. – final capital of the Confederate states of America
Down
  1. 1. law that put a stop to bringing enslaved people to America to be sold
  2. 3. – person who believed slavery should be abolished or ended
  3. 5. abolitionists and author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin
  4. 6. – former slave who led over 70 slaves to freedom by way of the Underground Railroad
  5. 11. – Confederate General and the most remembered solder at the First Battle of Bull Run
  6. 13. – constitutional amendment that outlawed slavery in the United States
  7. 15. Virginia – location of the surrender of Robert E Lee and the Confederate Army to Ulysses S Grant and the Union Army
  8. 16. – Union General whose march to the sea destroyed the Southern towns and led to the end of the Civil War
  9. 17. – 14th president signed the Kansas Nebraska Act
  10. 20. – Actor who Shot President Lincoln
  11. 21. – first major Civil War Battle won by the south
  12. 23. commander of all the Union armies
  13. 24. 15th president last president before the Civil War
  14. 26. – secret routes leading to free Northern States and Canada
  15. 31. – early commander of the Union Army of the Potomac
  16. 32. – fort in Charleston South Carolina where the first shots of the Civil War were fired
  17. 34. – political party founded on the belief that slavery should not be allowed in the United States Territories