Unit 9: Sectionalism and Civil War

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Across
  1. 3. The Northern states during the Civil War
  2. 5. 1861 - 1865, North vs. South, slavery was a major issue
  3. 6. The Southern states during the Civil War
  4. 7. Loyalty to one's own region of the country, rather than to the nation as a whole
  5. 8. This law required that northern states forcibly returned escaped slaves to their owners.
  6. 11. The rights and powers held by individual US states rather than by the federal government.
  7. 13. (1863) a speech given by Abraham Lincoln; praised the bravery of Union soldiers and renewed his commitment to winning the Civil War
  8. 14. Famous as the site of the surrender of the Confederate Army under Robert E. Lee to Union commander Ulysses S. Grant
Down
  1. 1. A system of secret routes used by escaping slaves to reach freedom in the North or in Canada
  2. 2. 1863. Declared all slaves in rebelling states to be free but did not affect slavery in non-rebelling Border States.
  3. 4. A system of enforced servitude in which some people are owned by other people
  4. 8. 1861; First battle of the Civil War
  5. 9. Constitutional protection against unlawful imprisonment
  6. 10. Laws that controlled the lives of enslaved African Americans and denied them basic rights.
  7. 12. The formal withdrawal of a state from the Union