Causes of the Civil War

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Across
  1. 2. abraham lincoln becomes 16th president opposing the spread of slavery
  2. 3. admitted missouri as a slave state and maine as a non slave state
  3. 5. 16th president of the united states
  4. 9. he sued his master for freedom, court rules slaves are not legal citizens and cant bring court cases before the supreme court
  5. 11. african americans who worked on plantations in the south with no pay
  6. 13. wilmot proviso suggested all lands from mexican cession had no slaves
  7. 14. an American Confederate general best known for his service to the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War, during which he was appointed the overall commander of the Confederate States Army.
  8. 15. some states thought they could leave the union if they didnt like the laws being passed by federal government
  9. 16. northern abolitionist launched a slave revolt in 1859, was crushed, tried, and executed
Down
  1. 1. required all citizens to help catch runaway slaves
  2. 4. 11 southern states leave the union and become the confederacy
  3. 6. the new states would vote if their state would be admitted as a free or slave state.
  4. 7. an anti-slavery book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe
  5. 8. an American politician who served as the president of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1865.
  6. 10. john brown and others overran the federal arsenal
  7. 12. greater loyalty to your own section rather than country as a whole