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- 4. Lincoln wanted to preserve this
- 5. allowed the Union to transport supplies and troops quickly
- 6. American National Red Cross
- 9. Compromise determined unconstitutional in Dred Scott Case
- 11. President of the Confederate States of America
- 12. command Union forces at the pivotal Battle of Antietam
- 14. place where surrender of the Confederacy
- 16. On Civil Disobedience
- 17. Commander of Army of Northern Virginia
- 18. weapons of the Civil War were created by this revolution
- 19. One of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War, fought to a standoff on September 17, 1862, in western Maryland
- 20. Civil War–era nickname for paper money
- 21. In the Compromise of 1850 type of trade that was abolished in the District of Columbia
- 23. description of violence in between pro- and antislavery settlers in the Kansas Territory, 1856
- 25. type of railroad designed to carry enslaved people
- 32. a regiment of free blacks who charged Fort Wagner, South Carolina were from this state
- 33. territory and eventual free state that came to the United States as a result of its victory in the Mexican War
- 34. type of sovereignty that allowed settlers in a disputed territory to decide the slavery issue for themselves
- 35. Creek where John Brown and his followers murdered five supporters of slavery in May 1856
- 38. America’s first tool of mass communication
- 42. were anti-slavery because they believed slavery limited economic opportunity
- 44. the Know-Nothing Party is associated with this ideology
- 45. first name of leading Black Abolitionist
- 46. The main army of the Union was called the Army of the _____.
- 48. according to Stephens it was “immediate” cause of secession
- 50. Chief Justice who ruled that no black person could be a citizen of the United States
- 51. used during Civil War to shape public opinion
- 52. author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin
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- 1. advantage of the Union in the Civil War
- 2. led an attack that killed perhaps 400 Indian men, women, and children
- 3. sponsored the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854
- 7. Proviso to prohibit slavery in any land acquired in the Mexican War
- 8. Civil War begins at this fort
- 10. Vice-President of Confederacy
- 13. name given to escaped blacks treated as property of military value subject to confiscation
- 15. expansionist spirit of the early nineteenth century that God intended the American nation to reach all the way to the Pacific Ocean, ____ destiny
- 22. Southern city destroyed by Sherman
- 24. decision in which the Supreme Court ruled that African-Americans had no rights that whites were compelled to recognize
- 26. proclamation freeing the slaves in areas under Confederate control
- 27. led failed raid on the federal arsenal in 1859
- 28. another name for runaway slave
- 29. established American colony in Texas
- 30. Site associated with the abolitionist John Brown
- 31. what Republicans called northern opponents of the war
- 36. Border state that gave Union control of Ohio River
- 37. The North have superior leadership of this kind
- 39. 1858 senate opponent of Stephen Douglas
- 40. largest battle ever fought on North American continent; turning point of war
- 41. The American Civil War is considered the first of this type of war
- 43. Senator who was assaulted on the floor of the Senate by South Carolina congressman Preston S. Brooks
- 47. to withdraw formally from membership in the Union
- 49. place where Santa Anna’s army killed 187 American and Tejano defenders on March 13, 1836
