This printable crossword puzzle on the topic of US Civil War & Reconstruction has 20 clues. Answers range from 8 to 26 letters long. This crossword is also available to download as a Microsoft Word document or a PDF.
This group wanted to prevent expansion of slavery into Western Territories.
An enslaved African American from Missouri and sued for his freedom.
An abolitionist who conducted a midnight raid at a pro-slavery settlement.
The presidential canidate for the Free Soil Party.
Allowing officials to arrest any person of being a runaway slave and stated that all citizens should help capture them.
A novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe.
California entering the Union as a non-slave state and other in other territories voters could decide if they want slavery.
Dividing Nebraska territory into Kanasas; Nebraska voters in each territory would decide the issue of slavery by popular sovereignty.
Banned slavery in acquired territory that the Unites States gained from Mexico.
A Pennsylvania congressman that proposed the Wimot Proviso.
A self educated lawyer that served in the Illinois House of Representatives as a Rebuplican, and strongly opposed popular sovereignty.
Another politician from Illinois as a Northern Democrat but, believed popular sovereignty was the implied intent of the Constitution.
The first southern state that seceded from the Union.
The 7 states that seceded (Mississippi, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, South Carolina, Florida and Texas) formed this.
A Kentucky senator proposed a constituional amendment allowing slavery in western territories south of the Missouri Compromise.
When Missouri entered as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
A garrison that guarded the harbor at Charleston, South Carolina.
The president for Confederate Army.
A constitutional unionist from Tennessee that believed the Federal government should support slavery and defend the Union.
A southern Democrat for Kentucky who believes the Federal government must protect slavery.