The Civil War

3. Refers to the time between 1854-1858 when the Kansas territory was the site of much violence over whether the territory would be slave free or not
6. The act of withdrawing from an organization, union, military alliance or a political entity
8. The authority of the government is created and sustained by the consent of its people
10. Northerner who moved to the South after the U.S. Civil War in order to profit from the instability and power vacuum that existed at this time
12. A formal process in which an official is accused of unlawful activity, the outcome of which, depending on the country, may include the removal of that official from office as well as criminal or civil punishment

1. U.S. political party in the United States founded in 1854-1856
2. System of agriculture in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on the land
4. Civil War battle fought near here at Sharpsburg, Maryland, in 1862
5. Major battle in the Western Theater of the American Civil War
7. Prohibited slavery in the former Louisiana Territory north of the parallel 36°30′ north except within the boundaries of the proposed state of Missouri.
9. Southern whites who supported Reconstruction and the Republican Party after the American Civil War
11. Slave states supporting the Union