Sectionalism And Civil War Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 4. A person who advocated for the end of slavery
  2. 8. A Supreme Court ruling that declared enslaved people were not considered citizens and could not sue for their freedom, further dividing the nation
  3. 9. The site where the Confederate army surrendered, marking the end of the Civil War
  4. 10. A novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe that powerfully depicted the horrors of slavery, influencing public opinion against it
  5. 12. The act of a state formally withdrawing from a union or country, which is what the Confederate states did before the Civil War
  6. 13. The act of freeing enslaved peopl
  7. 15. The practice of owning another person as property, a central issue that fueled sectionalism and led to the Civil War
Down
  1. 1. A radical abolitionist attack on a pro-slavery settlement in Virginia, which escalated tensions before the Civil War
  2. 2. A law that required the return of escaped slaves to their owners, which further heightened tensions between North and South
  3. 3. The group of Southern states that seceded from the Union and formed their own government during the Civil War
  4. 5. A pivotal battle of the Civil War, considered a turning point for the Union
  5. 6. The states that remained loyal to the United States during the Civil War, often referred to as the North
  6. 7. Excessive loyalty to a specific region of a country, often at the expense of national unity; a key factor leading to the Civil War
  7. 11. A period of violent conflict in the Kansas Territory over the issue of slavery, a significant event leading to the Civil War
  8. 14. Relating to the period before the Civil War