Causes of the Civil War

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Across
  1. 2. Created a bigger divide between the northern and the southern states because some states believed they had the right to withgo federal laws they didn’t agree with.
  2. 5. Repealed the Missouri Compromise and gave the permission to use popular sovereignty. Caused more bitterness between the states.
  3. 7. Said the Missouri Compromise wasn’t constitutional and denied African American slaves citizenship and upheld slavery.
  4. 8. Settled which states were allowed slavery and weren’t, causing multiple disagreements between bordering states.
  5. 9. A book published during a very controversial time that talked about the horrible treatment of black slaves. Written and published by Harriet Stowe, Stowe quickly became an improtant symbol for the anti-slavery movement.
  6. 10. Admitted California as a free state while still trying to please both sides, causing the southern states to rebel even more.
Down
  1. 1. President Lincoln was elected, who was publicly against slavery.
  2. 3. An attempt at a slave revolt in the Southern states to show that slaves would not be harmed anymore. Made the North look like the bad guys.
  3. 4. Georgia's acceptance of the Compromise of 1850.
  4. 6. The South wanted to overrule federal law that banned the expansion of slavery into states that didn’t agree with slavery.