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  1. 2. where Abraham Lincoln defeated three opponents to win the presidency; upon
  2. 5. the U.S. Civil War and brought about the emancipation of slaves.
  3. 6. – 1865) - The 16th president of the United States, Lincoln preserved the Union
  4. 7. election Southern states seceded from the Union. -
  5. 8. in exchange for the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act.
  6. 10. eleven southern states from the Union in 1860, leading to the Civil War.
  7. 13. of 1850.
  8. 14. position supported by several prominent Georgia politicians who supported the
  9. 15. machine invented by Eli Whitney in 1793 that quickly removed seeds from the cotton
  10. 16. - important Georgia politician who was a U.S. Senator, Georgia
  11. 17. - Supreme Court ruling that declared slaves were not citizens of the United States.
  12. 19. in the United States.
Down
  1. 1. (1850) - act that required runaway slaves to be returned to their masters if caught
  2. 3. (1820) - compromise that brought Missouri into the Union as a slave state and
  3. 4. as a free state; in addition, Congress banned slavery north of the 36˚20’ line of latitude.
  4. 9. act of making legally null and void.
  5. 11. compromise between the North and South that allowed California to enter the
  6. 12. and Vice-President of the Confederate States of America (C.S.A.).
  7. 18. the act of separating from a nation or state and becoming independent; the withdrawal