Civil War Crossword
Across
2. Term for a slave-owning state that did not secede
3. Confederate general who urged a Fabian strategy
4. Someone who wanted to end slavery
5. Evangelical Protestant abolitionist writer who edited “The Liberator” (full name)
7. Confederate privateer
8. Book that argued that argued that slavery was morally correct and necessary to advanced culture (two words, drop the
exclamation point)
9. Area of the South where idealistic abolitionists ran reconstruction as a private charity (two words)
11. Declaring a law has no force and is void
12. Lincoln’s assassin
15. At the end of the Civil War, he opposed guerilla warfare and urged his men to accept defeat and become good citizens
19. Founded the Ku Klux Klan
20. Elected President in 1860
22. First battle of the Civil War (two words)
23. Northern Secretary of the Treasury
26. Having varied interests
27. Term for slave states that seceded after Lincoln’s call for volunteers (two words)
28. Term for the slave states that seceded right after Lincoln’s election (two words)
33. Section that used the state compact theory (be able to give examples)
34. Copperhead Northern Democrat who favored the cause of the South
37. Illinois politician who supported popular sovereignty
40. A self-taught person
41. Ended slavery (don’t let your mother fool you).
45. Victor of Gettysburg
48. Said that the states had created the Constitution and could reject elements or all of the Constitution when they so desired
(three words)
49. American diplomat who was a key player in keeping Britain out of the war (full name)
53. Great compromiser in 1820 and 1850
55. Ended Lee’s first invasion of the North
56. Began cultivating cotton
57. First state to secede
59. Entered the union as part of the compromise of 1850
60. Term for slave states that seceded after Lincoln’s call for volunteers (two words)
61. The South thought the lack of this commodity would force Britain to intervene despite its anti-slavery sentiments.
63. The fall of this city split the Confederacy in half
64. Pro-slavery writer who developed the mudsill theory
66. Political group founded to oppose the expansion of slavery into the territories (two words)
67. Law that forced many Northerners to take a stand on slavery (three words)
70. Prophet of total war; he is one of he most controversial figures in American history.
71. Founder of the type of warfare practiced by Lee
73. New York’s main economic activity in the middle of the 1800s
74. Place where Forrest massacred black prisoners (two words)
75. Ironclad
78. Part of government on which the South pinned its hopes for the future
Down
1. Historian who focuses on how the American frontier shaped the American character (full name)
6. Textualist defenders of the federal government’s right to restrict slavery in the territories point to the Constitutional clause
that says that the federal government can make laws in ______________ for the territories (three words)
10. Leaving a country and becoming independent
13. Raided Harper’s Ferry (first and last name)
14. Lincoln’s speech refuting the state compact theory (two words)
16. The British equivalent of Uncle Sam (two words)
17. Led the tragic charge at Gettysburg
18. Contributed the majority of Southern troops
21. Defeated in the presidential election of 1864
22. Douglas’ theory that even though Dred Scott legalized slavery everywhere, Northerners could still pragmatically exclude
slavery by not passing laws to support it (two words)
24. Term for the slave states that seceded right after Lincoln’s election (two words)
25. Lincoln’s strong secretary of state
29. Generic name for a battle victory that inspired foreign countries to come to your aid.
30. Ended the second Confederate invasion of the North
31. Law introducing the principal of popular sovereignty (three words, drop the hyphen
32. Great Midwest state in which the Republican party was founded
35. A large crop exceeding expectations
36. Issue dividing the North and South as the 1800s progressed
38. Confederate capital
39. Chicago convention hall where Lincoln received the Republican nomination
42. Issued by Lincoln to deter British and French entry into the war (two words)
43. Attempt by the Supreme Court to end the slavery question once and for all by declaring slavery legal everywhere (two
words)
44. Confederate general known for his wars of maneuver
46. Union general who eventually defeated Lee
47. General who began a crisis when he liberated slaves on his own authority.
50. Seward’s speech that claimed that the injustice of slavery required people of good conscience to set aside the Constitution.
51. As a result of these bills introduced by Lincoln at the beginning of the Mexican War, he was called unpatriotic (two words)
52. Ended the major fighting of the Civil War
54. Confederate President
58. Type of warfare in which you attempt to cause high casualties until the enemy has no more men
62. Section that used the state compact theory (be able to give examples)
65. Lincoln’s speech that warned America could not remain half slave and falf free (two words)
68. One factor contributing to the North’s manpower advantage
69. Began cultivating cotton
72. Argued strongly for the enlistment of African-American soldiers
75. Ironclad
76. A tax on imports
77. Type of transportation widespread in the North but not the South