Across
- 6. allowed Kansas settlers to vote whether or not to permit slavery in the territory; violence erupted; slavery prohibited
- 8. A military tactic used to cut off supplies and reinforcements from reaching enemy ports
- 10. Civil war U.S president; against secession; wanted to preserve the union
- 11. Plantation system, slave labor; cotton produced and sent to northern factories
- 12. North and south agreed; California became a free state; strict fugitive slave law was passed
- 14. Textile mills, trade, factories, immigrant labor, some trade-related slave labor
- 15. The act of withdrawing from a federation or body
Down
- 1. part of the compromise of 1850; runaway slaves and free Blacks were at risk of being captured by slave hunters
- 2. region’s geography impacted its economy; North built factories, South farmed, West mined; a cause of the civil war
- 3. confederacy surrendered to union in virginia; ended the civil war
- 4. Mining and agriculture
- 5. The first major battle of the civil war
- 7. union captured mississippi river, dividing the confederacy in half
- 9. more factories, railroads and money and leadership of general grant
- 13. Major debate leading up to the civil war; Republican party (lincoln) against its spread into new territories