US History Unit 4 Keywords

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Across
  1. 4. When people can vote on issues like people voted on slavery in Utah and New Mexico before the Civil War
  2. 5. Vote that sought to replace Abraham Lincoln’s Vice President and successor with a different president in 1868 but failed by one vote in the Senate
  3. 7. Period after the Civil War from 1865 to 1877 when the United States were reunited and issues from the war were confronted
  4. 11. War between Kansas and Missouri over slavery and Missouri disrupting Kansas’ vote on whether to allow slavery
  5. 14. The first African-American regiment to serve in the Civil War
  6. 17. Declaration by the Supreme Court that African-Americans could never be citizens of the United States
  7. 19. Breaking away from a country like southern States did before the civil war
  8. 20. Supporter of slavery who assassinated Abraham Lincoln
  9. 21. Political party that supported granting more rights to African-American and wanted to punish Southern states for leaving the Union
  10. 22. Where the last battle of the Civil War took place and General Lee surrendered
  11. 23. State laws in the South that placed many limitations on the freedom of African-Americans
  12. 24. Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson, good strategists and worked well together
Down
  1. 1. Provisory president of the Confederacy made up of the seceded Southern states
  2. 2. Series of debates between the candidates running for the Senate in Illinois in 1858
  3. 3. Raid attempting to seize guns to give to slaves to help them obtain freedom that resulted in failure and the execution of the organizer
  4. 6. Plan to cut the South off from supplies from the Atlantic and the Mississippi River.
  5. 8. Compromise allowing California to enter the Union as a free state, Utah and New Mexico to vote on slavery, and ending slave trade in Washington DC
  6. 9. Declaration by Abraham Lincoln freeing slaves in the states that had seceded from the Union
  7. 10. Act making slaves who had escaped to Northern states be captured and returned to the South
  8. 12. Act repealing the Missouri compromise and declaring that all states could choose to be slave states if they wanted
  9. 13. Novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe demonstrating the immorality of slavery
  10. 15. Political party in the north of the United States that opposed slavery
  11. 16. Association that provided freed slaves and other Southerners with resources such as food, medical care, schools and land
  12. 18. Ulysses S. Grant and Sherman, not particularly good strategists