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Down: 1) During the Civil War the term "_________________________________" referred to Northern peace Democrats. 2) What were the 5 boarder states? 3) The fanatical abolitionist John Brown made his first entry into violent antislavery politics by killing five proslavery settlers at ____________________________________________________. (location). 4) Northerners especially resented Douglas’s Kansas-Nebraska Act because it repealed which compromise prohibiting slavery in the Northern Territories? 5) Radical Republicans wished to have __________________________ in charge of Reconstruction 6) According to the Compromise of 1850 ____________________ was admitted to the Union as a free state, and slavery in __________________ and _____________________________ territories would be left up to popular sovereignty. 8) Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin greatly strengthened _______________ anti-slavery feeling. 10) The primary goal of Commodore Matthew Perry’s treaty in 1854 was open trade with which country? 11) Southerners seeking to expand the territory of slavery undertook filibustering military expeditions to acquire which 2 countries? 12) The South’s weapon of “King Cotton” failed to draw Britain into the war on the side of the Confederacy because the British found sufficient cotton from previous stockpiles and other sources like _____________ and __________________. 13) Southerners were particularly enraged by the John Brown affair because they believed Brown’s violent abolitionist sentiments were shared by the whole _________________________. 15) Lincoln's death resulted in movement toward a harsher ____________________________. 16) Many of the new millionaires who emerged in the North during the Civil War made their fortunes by providing poorly made “_____________________________” goods to the Union armies. 19) Lincoln at first declared that the war was being fought only to save the __________________________ and not to free the _____________________________. 20) The original purpose of the ________________________ _______________________ was to assist blacks in their transition from slaves to freedmen. 21) The purpose of the so-called "_____________________________________________________________" was to help runaway Southern slaves escape to the North 24) Lincoln’s plan for the besieged units in Fort Sumter was to provide _______________________ for the garrison but not to reinforce it. 25) The firing on _____________________________________ had the effect of arousing Northern support for a war to put down South’s “rebellion.” 26) ____________________ ___________________________ laws were designed to forbid state officials from assisting in the capture of runaway slaves 30) In the election of 1848, what was the response of the Whig and Democratic parties ignored the issue of 31) In the Indian Territory (Oklahoma), most of the “Five Civilized Tribes” supported the ______________________. 33) ________________________________ was the first state to secede from the Union. 37) The proposed admission of California directly in the Union was dangerously controversial since California was a free state it would destroy the balance of free states and slave states in the _________________. 39) ________________________________ made particular advances during the Civil War by entering industrial employment and providing medical aid for soldiers on both sides. Across: 7) means that the people of a territory should determine for themselves whether or not to permit slavery.9) One of the principle purposes for the __________________________ _______________________ was facilitate a Southern route for the transcontinental railroad14) means that the people of a territory should determine for themselves whether or not to permit slavery.17) Henry _______________ and Daniel __________________ were two notable advocates of compromise in the controversy over slavery in 1850. 18) One of the most threatening problems for the Union from 1861 through 1863 was possible _________________ recognition of the Confederacy. 22) A key issue in the Lincoln–Douglas debates was whether the people of a territory could prohibit slavery in light of the ______________________________ decision. 23) The ____________ Amendment provided a definition of citizenship and equal protection for all citizens under the law. 27) ________________________ argued that his assertion of executive power and suspension of certain civil liberties was justified because it was necessary to set aside small provisions of the Constitution in order to save the ___________________________. 28) In addition to abolishing slavery, the 13th Amendment had the effect of increasing the representation of former slave states in the __________________________ _____ ______________________________. 29) Why was there a need for a quick formation of an effective government in ________________________ due to the very large and unruly population drawn into the state by the discovery of gold30) During Reconstruction, the term ______________________ was used to refer to white Southerners who supported Republican Reconstruction. 32) Among the states that joined the Confederacy only after Lincoln’s call for troops were _____________________________, ______________________________, ___________________________. 34) The Civil War began as an attempt to preserve the ______________________________. 35) The existence of the “Underground Railroad” added to southern demands for stricter ______________ _____________ _______________. 36) The final battle to gain passage of the Compromise of 1850 was substantially aided by whose death? 38) In the Indian Territory (Oklahoma), most of the “Five Civilized Tribes” supported the ______________________. 40) In the ____________________________________________________________, President Lincoln announced that as of January, 1 1863, he would free slaves in States in rebellion against the United States. 41) Radical Republicans wished to have __________________________ in charge of Reconstruction 42) Northerners especially resented Douglas’s Kansas-Nebraska Act because it repealed which compromise prohibiting slavery in the Northern Territories? 43) The term “Butternut region” refers to the areas of southern ________________, Indiana, and Illinois that sympathized with the ________________________ and opposed an antislavery war. 44) The success of the Confederate raider Alabama highlighted the issue of _____________________ (country) un-neutral policy of allowing Confederate ships to be built in its naval yards. 45) __________________________ ________________________ was a prominent black abolitionist?46) The election of 1856 was most noteworthy for the dramatic rise of the _______________________ party, even though they didn’t win.. 47) Individuals who opposed the expansion of slavery into the territories because they feared its effect on the labor system were known as ______________________________________________. 48) President Lincoln was reluctant to emancipate the slaves in the first years of the Civil War because he feared that emancipation would drive the ______________________________ out of the Union
 

 

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