Across
- 4. An act that allowed territories to decide whether to allow slavery, leading to violent conflict
- 5. The proclamation issued by Lincoln to free enslaved people in Confederate states
- 7. The southern states that seceded from the United States
- 8. An agreement that maintained the balance between free and slave states by setting a boundary for slavery
- 10. The process of freeing enslaved people
- 12. An agreement that admitted California as a free state and included the Fugitive Slave Act
Down
- 1. The act of formally withdrawing from a nation
- 2. A law that required escaped enslaved people to be returned to their enslavers
- 3. U.S. president during the Civil War
- 6. President of the Confederate States during the Civil War
- 9. The northern states that fought to preserve the United States
- 11. The movement to end slavery