The Civil War

2. Promoting the interests of a section or region (such as the North or the South) instead of the entire country.
5. an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe.
6. Also called the North or the United States
8. an enslaved African-American man who, along with his wife, Harriet, unsuccessfully sued for freedom for themselves and their two daughters
10. To admit defeat and give up in the face of overwhelming odds.
11. A state of bondage in which African Americans (and some Native Americans) were owned by other people
12. When a person is murdered for political reasons.
13. Someone who wishes to abolish or get rid of slavery.

1. passed by the United States Congress on September 18, 1850, as part of the Compromise of 1850
3. the states that seceded from the United States of America to form their own nation
4. a territorial organic act that created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska.
7. the action of withdrawing formally from membership of a federation or body, especially a political state.
9. Land within the mainland boundaries of the country that had not yet become a state by 1861.