Social Studies Vocabulary Quiz Crossword

a union strategy in the Civil War to squeeze the Confederates into submission
"before the war"
the murder of a prominent person for political reasons
the use of naval forces to isolate a seaport and prevent ships from entering or leaving it
a bitter herb used as a replacment for coffee
California joined the Union as a free state, Utah and New Mexico territories could decide on slavery by popular sovereignty and Fugitive Slave Act was passed
11 slave states seceded from the United States after the election of Abraham Lincoln
allowed the Union Army to confiscate land from the Confederacy
the draft of compulsory enlistment for military services during the Civil War
freeing of slaves
document designed to cause havoc by freeing Confederate owned slaves
allowing southern slave holders to reclaim escaped slaves
Missouri boundry between free and slave states
people of an area decide on an issue
making an unfair profit on essential goods
with drawl of a state from the Union
the thinking that northerners and southerners were differnt from each other
when an army tries to capture a town or fort
rights of an individual state
legislation that prohibited slavery in any new territory afte the Mexican- American War