Across
- 2. the unions ironclad
- 6. Confederate general and military leader of the defeated Confederacy during the American Civil War.
- 9. created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska and allowed residents to decide whether to permit slavery through popular sovereignty.
- 11. the successful party that came from the whigs
- 13. two federal laws, passed in 1793 and 1850, designed to compel the return of escaped enslaved people to their owners
- 14. This siege, which took place from May 18 to July 4, 1863, resulted in a key Union victory that gave them control of the Mississippi River and effectively split the Confederacy.
Down
- 1. 16th U.S. President
- 2. the union general and military leader
- 3. a historical sea fort in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, and is renowned as the site where the first shots of the American Civil War were fired.
- 4. is considered a turning point in the war, marking the high-water mark of the Confederate invasion of the North.
- 5. the principle that the legitimacy of a government and its leaders comes from the consent of the people they govern
- 7. withdraw formally from membership of a federal union, an alliance, or a political or religious organization.
- 8. Abraham Lincoln's shortest speech during the war.
- 10. first metal boat
- 12. the Union's early war strategy to defeat the Confederacy during the American Civil War.