This printable crossword puzzle on the topic of US Civil War & Reconstruction has 15 clues. Answers range from 6 to 19 letters long. This crossword is also available to download as a Microsoft Word document or a PDF.
A Supreme Court case in which a slave.
loyalty to a state or section rather than to the whole country
the right of people to create their government; voters in a new territory would decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery
An imaginary line was drawn at the southern border of Missouri, slavery was permitted in the Louisiana Purchase area south of this line and was not permitted north of this line; Missouri was the exception- the goal was to keep the number of free and slave states even
Five parts: California was added as a free state, a border dispute between New Mexico and Texas was settled, Fugitive Slave Act passed, ended slave trade in Washington D.C., and voters in each new section of the Mexican Cession would decide the issue of slavery on popular sovereignty
a runaway slave
a war between people of the same country
required all citizens to help catch runaway slaves
More than 200 people died in Kansas Territory after pro slavery and antislavery bands of people fought over the territory
a machine that separates the seeds from raw cotton fibers
a reformer who favors abolishing slavery
The election that brought Abraham Lincoln to the presidency and caused southern states to secede
network of escape routes for slaves
to leave or withdraw
The location in South Carolina where the Civil war began when federal troops were attacked by Confederate troops