Across
- 2. The action of occupying or taking over a territory (Ex. Texas in 1845)
- 7. Loyalty and devotion to a state or region as opposed to the whole country
- 10. Immigrants who fled famine in their homeland and experienced religious tension in the U.S.
- 14. Principle that the settlers of the new territories should decide if slavery would be legal there (Stephen A. Douglas advocated for this idea in the 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act, which repealed the Missouri Compromise and reopened the national debate over slavery in the western territories)
- 16. Scorched earth policy in which Union army everything in their path (ex. Sherman's March to Sea)
- 18. Admitted as a free state in the Compromise of 1850
- 19. The formal surrender of land or territory after the Mexican-American War (1846-1848)
- 20. Attack by pro-slavery Senator Preston Brooks on anti-slavery Senator Charles Sumner
- 22. Attack on this fort marked the official beginning of the Civil War
- 25. Enslaved preacher who led a slave rebellion in Virginia in 1831
- 29. 1820 Compromise to maintain balance of political power between free and slave states
- 30. Policy of protecting the interests of native-born citizens against those of immigrants
Down
- 1. Proclamation issued by Lincoln to free slaves in rebellious Confederate states
- 3. Amendment granted citizenship to all persons "born or naturalized in the United States," including formerly enslaved people, and provided all citizens with “equal protection under the laws”
- 4. Militant abolitionist whose raid on a federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry made him a martyr to the anti-slavery cause and further intensified sectional animosities
- 5. Second state to secede from the Union
- 6. 1840s congressional proposal to limit slavery's expansion into the territories
- 8. 1858 senatorial candidate stated that ¨a house divided against itself cannot stand,¨ later won presidential election of 1860
- 9. Amendment abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime
- 11. Group of Republicans, led by Thaddeus Stevens and Charles Sumner, known for their opposition to slavery, their efforts to ensure emancipation and civil rights for Black Americans, and their strong opinions on post-war Reconstruction
- 12. First state to secede from the Union
- 13. Abolitionist and women's rights advocate was one of the first women of any race to speak in public on social and political issues in the U.S.
- 15. Enslaved man who unsuccessfully sued for his freedom and Supreme Court ruled on his case in 1857
- 17. Military plan to strangle the Confederacy’s ability to trade or receive resources through its naval blockade of Southern ports and coastline
- 21. 1993 Civil War movie ¨starring¨ Mr. Warren's dad and depicting military turning point
- 23. 19th century belief that the expansion of the U.S. was justified and inevitable
- 24. The period after the Civil War (1865 to 1877), during which the U.S. grappled with the challenges of reintegrating the former Confederate states into the Union
- 26. Political party formed in 1854 from anti-slavery Whigs and Free Soilers
- 27. Action of formally withdrawing from the Union (Lincoln viewed this action as unconstitutional)
- 28. Amendment granted African American men the right to vote