Across
- 4. Formal withdrawal of states/regions from a nation
- 5. Novel published by Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1852 talking about how slavery is brutal and immoral
- 7. Northern troops
- 8. He and his men took arsenal in Harpers Ferry, Virgina, in hopes of starting slave rebellion
- 9. Loose union of independent states; name the southern states that seceded during the Civil War
- 11. Being a part of a time period before a war, especially the American Civil War
- 12. Violent conflict between Union and Confederate forces over state rights and slavery from 1861-1865
- 15. 16th president of U.S. who saved the Union during Civil War and emancipated slavery; assassinated by Booth
- 16. Loyalty to the region you're from rather than your whole nation
Down
- 1. Government that people rule by their own consent
- 2. From 1846-1848, war between Mexico and America in which American gains one half of Mexican territory
- 3. "Compromise of 1820" solved issue over Missouri; Maine became free state and Missouri slave, 36 parallel meant that north of that meant free state while south of that meant slave state
- 6. 1845; created Nebraska and Kansas as states and used popular sovereignty to decide if they were going to be a slave state or a free state
- 10. U.S slave that sued Liberty after living in a non-slave state
- 13. Agreement to ease tensions caused by slavery expansion in western territories
- 14. Person/people who wanted to end slavery in the U.S.