4.1(a) - Events Leading to War

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  1. 1. The Supreme Court ruled in the ________ ________ case that black men, or any persons descended from imported slaves, could not be citizens and had no standing in Federal courts.
  2. 3. After the election of Abraham Lincoln, many southern states believed they should _________ from the Union and form their own country.
  3. 4. At the start of the American Civil War, the states in the north relied mostly on ____________ for their economy.
  4. 7. Due to the rivalries between states over slavery, the United States found itself in a ________ war amongst itself.
  5. 9. After the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, violence between anti and pro-slavery forces erupted in Kansas. This became known as ____________ Kansas.
  6. 10. During the Lincoln-Douglas debates, Abraham Lincoln argued that all men, including enslaved men, were entitled to certain basic __________ and freedoms.
  7. 11. In a speech during 1858, Abraham Lincoln said "a house _________ against itself cannot stand", calling for the country to either be all free or all slave.
  8. 12. When Abraham Lincoln was elected, the Southern States feared that he would __________ slavery in the south.
  9. 13. In 1859, John Brown and 21 other men led a raid on __________ __________ to seize the federal armory and incite a slave rebellion.
  10. 14. At the beginning of the American Civil War, the states in the south relied on slave labor for ______________ to drive their economy.
Down
  1. 2. During the Election of 1860, there was increasing _____________ in American politics, due to major shifts in which political parties voters were loyal to.
  2. 5. Part of the Compromise of 1850 was the __________ _________ Act, which forced any runaway slaves caught in free states to be returned to the slave owner they escaped from.
  3. 6. During his 1st Inaugural Address, Abraham Lincoln promised that he would let states determine their own institutions, signaling he would not try to abolish __________ in states where it already existed.
  4. 8. Northern Democrats, Whigs, and Free Soil Westerners came together to form the _____________ Party and resist the spread of slavery to new territories.