US History Diff Vocab

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Across
  1. 1. Gave the people of Nebraska and Kansas the right to vote to choose if they wanted to be a free or slave state.
  2. 3. Issued by Lincoln, freed all slaves in southern states
  3. 7. California to enter the Union as a free state in exchange for the passage of the fugitive slave act.
  4. 9. A new country created by southern states that seceded from the Union
  5. 10. Compromise of 1820
  6. 13. Commander of the Union army, forced a surrender out of General Robert E. Lee in 1865
  7. 16. Law that makes it a crime to help runaway slaves, allowed the arrests of escaped slaves in free states, and required their return to their slaveholders.
  8. 17. A story published by Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1852 which portrayed slavery as brutal and immoral
  9. 18. Abolitionist involved in violent attacks in Kansas + Virginia against slavery supporters
  10. 19. The remaining Northern and Border states
Down
  1. 2. Confederate general whose men stopped a Union attack during the Battle of Bull Run
  2. 4. Abolitionist who wrote the anti-slavery novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin"
  3. 5. Abolitionist who started his own anti-slavery newspaper, believed nonviolence was the best way to end slavery
  4. 6. Commander of the confederate army, opposed to secession but sided with his home state of Virginia when war began
  5. 8. People have the power through voting to choose if they want slavery or not.
  6. 11. Different parts of the country developing separate cultures. (Such as the North, South, and West.)
  7. 12. Slave states that stay in the union and touch both Northern + Southern states
  8. 14. President of the Union during the civil war
  9. 15. President of the confederate states