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Causes of Civil War & Civil War
Across
3 victory at ___ gain the Union control of
the Mississippi River
5 this was the first Confederate state to
secede
7 she was the most famous "conductor"
on the Underground Railroad
8 violence over slavery caused the
Kansas territory to called _____ _______
9 the Union strategy to win the war was
called the _____ plan
10 this eloquent speaker was an escaped
slave
12 how many slaves were freed by the
Emancipation Proclamation?
13 both the North and South used ______
(the draft)
15 Lincoln violated the constitutional right
of ___ ___ when he imprisoned people who
were opposed to the war
16 the President of the Confederacy
17 the Compromise of 1850 allowed ____
to be admitted to the Union as a free state
19 the ___ ____, if it had passed, would
have outlawed slavery in any territory
gained from the Mexican War
20 Lincoln issued the
Emancipation Proclamation after
this battle
21 a book about the cruelty of
slavery that helped lead to the Civil
War
27 the Confederate army
surrendered here
28 Lincoln was from the ___ party
31 this was the largest and most
deadly battle of the Civil War
34 he was an extreme abolitionist
who published The Liberator
36 Slave states that DID NOT
secede were known as _____ states
37 The first shots of the war were
fired here
39 the Republican party was
opposed to the ____ of slavery
40 he led a raid at Harper's Ferry
in hopes of distributing weapons to
slaves in the area and leading a
rebellion
41 the South's strategy was to
fight a ____ war
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1 this policy allowed the people
living in a territory to decided if they
would allow slavery or not
2 the author of Uncle Tom's
Cabin
4 the Confederacy expected help
from Britain because the British
factories needed southern _____
6 this Act violated the Missouri
Compromise and said that slavery
in the 2 territories would be decided
by popular sovereignty
11 he was the much-loved
Confederate general who
surrendered at Appomattox
14 This Union officer is credited
with winning the Civil War
18 in 1861, the Confederates
were fighting to protect the idea of
____ _____
22 the President of the US during
the Civil War
23 this Union general was fired
(twice) by Lincoln and then ran
against him in 1864
24 these were northerners who wanted
to make peace and let the Confederacy go
25 the first real battle of the Civil War
was fought here
26 this slave led a bloody rebellion in
1831
29 the Compromise of 1850 included a
strict ____ Slave Act
30 this slave sued to gain his freedom,
but lost
32 this Union general led the "March to
the Sea" through GA
33 the capital of the Confederacy
35 the ____ sisters were abolitionists
whose family owned slaves
38 this side had the advantage of men,
money, and industry