The Civil War

4. Compromise 1820 agreement balancing slave and free states.
5. Political party of Abraham Lincoln.
7. A type of warship used during the Civil War, covered with iron plates.
8. Davis President of the Confederate States.
9. The act of freeing slaves.
11. The Northern states during the Civil War.
12. To withdraw formally
15. Union victory that gave the North control of the Mississippi River.
17. Admitted as a free state in 1850.
20. 16th President of the United States who led the Union during the Civil War
23. A major turning point battle fought in Pennsylvania in 1863.Lee never invaded the North again.
24. The location where Lee surrendered to Grant in 1865.

1. Name of the fort that Confederacy attacked because it guarded Charleston Harbor.
2. A person who has escaped from slavery.
3. Loyalty to the interests of one's own region rather than the country as a whole.
6. Book that made most Northerners realize they could no longer ignore slavery.
10. The Southern states that seceded from the Union.
13. A war between different groups within the same country.
14. Corpus Abraham Lincoln suspended this because he felt draft rioters were a threat to public safety.
16. Nebraska Act 1854 law that allowed popular sovereignty to decide slavery in new territories.
18. Scott Slave who sued for his freedom, leading to a major Supreme Court decision.
19. Leading cause of death during the Civil War.
21. The bloodiest single-day battle in American history.
22. Run Battle that proved the war would not end quickly..