This printable crossword puzzle on the topic of US Civil War & Reconstruction has 30 clues. Answers range from 5 to 19 letters long. This crossword is also available to download as a Microsoft Word document or a PDF.
Kentucky Compromiser
1820 admitted as a slave state
1820 admitted as a free state
1820 Congressional agreement
Proposed 1846 bill banning slavery in lands won from Mexico
Right of people to vote to allow slavery
Antislavery political party created in 1848
Elected President in 1848
To remove
South Carolina Senator opposed to compromise
Slaves who have fled slavery
Massachusetts Senator who feared a civil war
Admitted as a free state in 1850
Young Illinois Senator who helped pass the Compromise of 1850
Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin
Elected President in 1852
1854 Law Proposed by Stephen Douglas
Proslavery groups from Missouri
Abolitionist that killed 5 pro-slavery settlers at Pottawatomie Creek
Beat Senator Charles Sumner in Congress with a cane
Slave Whose case went to the Supreme Court
1854 Political Party created to keep slavery out of the western territories
Elected President in 1856
Runs against Stephen Douglas for Illinois Senator in 1858
Gun warehouse
Location of raid by John Brown in 1859
Actions against one's country
Willing to give up one's life for their beliefs
First President of the Confederacy
First shots of the Civil War fired here