This printable crossword puzzle on the topic of US History (General) has 14 clues. Answers range from 7 to 24 letters long. This crossword is also available to download as a Microsoft Word document or a PDF.
Passed by congress as part of the compromise of 1850 between southeren slaveholders and northern free soilers.
A document issued by the state convention in 1850 that accepted the compromise of 1850 but agreed to resisit if the north did not live up to its obligations or if it hindered slavery.
A Missouri slave went to the Supreme Court to sue for his freedom.
A military strategy proposed by Union General Winfield Scott early in the civil war.
A series of battles fought throughout north Georgia and around Atlanta.
A confederate war camp during the final 12 months of the civil war.
The practice of owning people as property.
The belief that all powers not specifically given to the national government in the U.S. constitution or specifically denied to the states remain with the states.
The idea of voiding and not following national laws within a state.
Legislation passed by the Congress in the 1820 by which Maine entered the Union as a free state Missouri entered the Union as a slave state and slavery was prohibited north of southeren border of Missouri in the rest of the Louisana Purchase Land.
A naval strategy by the U.S.to prevent the confedercy from trading.
A document issued by president Lincoln in 1862 that declared freedom for slaves in states in rebillion that made it possible to free slaves as the Union army took control of areas in the confederate states.
Sherman's march to the sea was a military campaign that came through Goergia.
Battle between U.S. and confederate, which marked the end of a union offensive in the south.