Civil War Vocab Crossword

Law the provided for harsh treatment for escaped slaves and for those who helped them
antislavery novel that was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe
An abolitionist who attempted to lead a slave revolt by capturing Armories in southern territory and giving weapons to slaves, was hung in Harpers Ferry after capturing an Armory
people hold the final authority in all matters of government, they can vote
American slave who sued his master for keeping him enslaved in a territory where slavery was banned under the missouri Compromise
to break away
marked the beginning of the civil war where the confederates opened fired on the fort.
the first real battle of the civil war
a ball/bullet a hallow base
a warship covered in iron
one of the first African-American regiments organzied to fight for the union
Nurse during the Civil War; started the American Red Cross
famous as the site of the surrender of the Confederate Army under Robert E. Lee to Union commander Ulysses S. Grant
Turning point of war, the Union victory ends with Pickett's charge. 50,000 people died, and the South lost its chance to invade the North.
Issued by Abraham Lincoln on September 22, 1862, it declared that all slaves in the rebellious Confederate states would be free.
is a northern democrat who was making peace with the Confederacy during the Civil War, a copperhead is also a type of venomous snake.
Confederate forces suprised union troops & drove them across the Tennesee river; union got backup and won the battle but it was one of the most bloody battles in the civil war
leader of the Union troops, and won the Battle of Shiloh
a state that didn't secede, but it was in between a slave state and free state.
1st, last and the only president of the Confederate States of America, during 1861 to 1865