civil war crossword puzzle

a war between citizens of the same country
an act of Congress (1820) by which Missouri was admitted as a slave state and Maine a free state and slavery was prohibited in Louisiana Purchase of Missouri
a former U.S. political party (1848–56) that opposed the extension of slavery in the territories not yet admitted to statehood
a person who strongly favors doing away with slavery
It consisted of laws admitting California as a free state, creating Utah and New Mexico territories with the question of slavery in each to be determined by popular sovereignty
was an enslaved African American man in the United States who unsuccessfully sued for his freedom and that of his wife and their two daughters in the Dred Scott v. Sanford case of 1857, popularly known as the "Dred Scott case."
was passed by the U.S. Congress on May 30, 1854. It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders. The Act served to repeal the Missouri Compromise of 1820 which prohibited slavery north of latitude 36°30´
a doctrine, held chiefly by the opponents of the abolitionists, that people living in a territory should be free of federal interference in determining domestic policy especially with respect to slavery
William Lloyd Garrison and the Liberator. Anti-abolitionist handbills sometimes led to violent clashes between pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions. For the entire generation of people that grew up in the years that led to the Civil War, William Lloyd Garrison was the voice of Abolitionism
The Fugitive Slave Law or Fugitive Slave Act was passed by the United States Congress on September 18, 1850, as part of the Compromise of 1850 between Southern slave-holding interests and Northern Free-Soilers. ... Abolitionists nicknamed it the "Bloodhound Law" for the dogs that were used to track down runaway slaves
opposed slavery, but originally was fighting the Civil War simply to keep the nation intact
states during the Civil War were the slave states that didn't leave the Union
the body formed by persons, states, or nations united by a league; specifically, capitalized: the 11 southern states seceding from the U.S. in 1860 and 1861
to leave or withdraw
where Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his Army of Northern Virginia to Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant
General of the Confederate Army
General of the Union Army
The Battle of Gettysburg was a turning point in the Civil War, the Union victory that ended General Robert E. Lee's second and most ambitious invasion of the North.
President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."