Sectionalism Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 1. Belonging to a period before a war especially the American Civil War
  2. 4. A loose union of independent states; name of government used by the southern states that seceded during the Civil War
  3. 6. forces Northern troops
  4. 7. Sovereignty A government in which the people rule by their own consent.
  5. 9. A person who wanted to end slavery in the United States
  6. 11. Formal withdrawal of states or regions from a nation
  7. 12. Compromise ¨Compromise of 1820" over the issue of slavery in Missouri. It was decided Missouri entered as a slave state and Maine entered as a free state and all states North of the 36th parallel were free states and all South were slave states.
  8. 14. Act 1854 - Created Nebraska and Kansas as states and gave the people in those territories the right to chose to be a free or slave state through popular sovereignty.
  9. 16. Scott United States slave who sued for liberty after living in a non-slave state
Down
  1. 2. War (1846-1848) The war between the United States and Mexico in which the United States acquired one half of the Mexican territory.
  2. 3. Loyalty to one's own region of the country, rather than to the nation as a whole
  3. 5. of 1850 Agreement designed to ease tensions caused by the expansion of slavery into western territories
  4. 8. Brown's Raid Began when he and his men took over the arsenal in Harpers Ferry, Virginia, in hopes of starting a slave rebellion.
  5. 10. Civil War The violent conflict between Union and confederate forces over states rights and slavery between 1861-1865.
  6. 13. Tom's Cabin A novel published by harriet beecher stowe in 1852 which portrayed slavery as brutal and immoral
  7. 15. Lincoln 16th President of the United States saved the Union during the Civil War and emancipated the slaves; was assassinated by Booth (1809-1865)