Unit 4 Bonus Crossword

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