Across
- 2. Amendment that granted states power not given to the federal government
- 5. Decided slavery in Kansas and Nebraska would be decided by popular sovereignity
- 9. Aggregate of the 11 states that seceeded from the union
- 10. The number of states that seceeded prior to Lincoln’s inauguration
- 12. Act that required runaway slaves to be returned
- 14. Collective name for the states
- 15. Last Name of the person who debated against Lincoln for a seat in the senate
- 19. Smuggled slaves from the South to the North, metaphorically
- 23. Name of a compromise partially counting slaves for representation
- 24. The number of states that seceeded after Lincoln’s inauguration
- 27. Total number of states that seceeded from the union
- 28. Manmade river that was the largest western construction at the time
- 30. Position in one of the two halves of Congress
Down
- 1. Last name of runner-up in the election of 1860
- 3. To formally break away from
- 4. Female conductor of the underground railroad
- 6. Pratice where people were forced into labor
- 7. Inventor of the sewing machine
- 8. Inventor of the steamboat
- 11. Official argument between two opponents
- 13. Became a slave state as part of the Missouri Compromise
- 16. Someone who seeks to end slavery
- 17. Side of the Civil War that disliked slavery
- 18. Escaped slave who became and abolitionist
- 20. Slave whose court case decided slaves were property
- 21. Inventor of the cotton gin
- 22. Period of rapid growth in technology
- 25. Violent abolitionist who attempted to rally slaves and fight back
- 26. Last name of the 16th American President
- 29. Conflict within a nation