Miss Ortega's Civil War Crossword

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  1. 3. An escaped slave who made thirteen trips back to the South on the Underground Railroad.
  2. 7. The name for the South during the Civil War.
  3. 9. General of the Union Army.
  4. 14. A compromise that admitted California as a free state and banned slavery in Washington D.C. Included the Fugitive Slave Act.
  5. 16. Loyalty to a section or region.
  6. 17. A former slave who wrote an autobiography that showed the horrors of slavery. Fought for the abolition of slavery and became a well known public speaker and activist.
  7. 20. The Battle of _________ led to a Union victory that proved pivotal as it halted the Confederate advance in Maryland and forced General Lee to retreat into Virginia.
  8. 22. The Southern economy was mostly based on ___________, or farming.
  9. 23. Invention by Eli Whitney that greatly increased the profit of cotton.
  10. 24. The bloodiest battle of the Civil War. July 1-3, 1863.
  11. 25. 16th President of the United States. Issued the Emancipation Proclamation.
  12. 26. The main cash crop in the South leading up to the Civil War, required a lot of slave labor to harvest.
  13. 27. The Northern economy was mostly based on ___________, or mass producing things in factories.
  14. 28. General of the Confederate Army. Surrended at the end of the Civil War.
  15. 30. This resulted in South Carolina and six other slave states seceding from the Union. Was the result of the election of 1860.
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  1. 1. Passed by Congress in 1854, essentially opened all new territories to slavery by asserting the rule of popular sovereignty over congressional edict.
  2. 2. President of the Confederacy during the Civil War.
  3. 4. A Supreme Court case that ruled that slaves were not citizens and that Congress did not have the power to outlaw slavery in any territory.
  4. 5. A Novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe that enlightened the North on the cruelties of slavery.
  5. 6. First state that seceded after the election of Abraham Lincoln.
  6. 8. Required all citizens to help catch runaway slaves, set up special courts to hear fugitive slave cases.
  7. 10. Where the Confederate army and General Robert E. Lee surrendered on April 9, 1865.
  8. 11. The name for the North during the Civil War.
  9. 12. This attack on April 12th-14th, 1861 marked the beginning of the Civil War.
  10. 13. Battle on July 21, 1861. Dashed any hopes of a quick Union victory.
  11. 15. A person who was opposed to slavery and wanted to see it destroyed in the United States.
  12. 18. A fierce abolitionist who set up a raid on Harper's Ferry. He hoped the slaves would rise up to join his cause but was killed along with his sons. Became a martyr for the abolitionist cause.
  13. 19. A new political party based on the principle or opposing slavery's extension into the Western territories.
  14. 21. Issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863. Declared that all persons held as slaves are and henceforward shall be free.
  15. 29. The withdrawl of a state from the Union of the United States.