Causes of the Civil War

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Across
  1. 2. Government offered land out west for cheap to promote frontier settlement
  2. 5. Required runaway slaves to be returned to enslavers
  3. 7. Region of the United States that was largely against slavery
  4. 10. Led to increased fear over slave revolts in the South
  5. 12. Connects the East to the West coast through locomotive
  6. 14. Drew a line to divide between free states and slave states
Down
  1. 1. Period of developments leading to increased urbanization
  2. 3. Guide that helped guide enslaved people along a networked path to freedom
  3. 4. Author of the abolitionist publication, The Liberator
  4. 6. Loyalty to your region over your country
  5. 8. Banned Chinese immigrants due to xenophobia and competition over economic opportunities
  6. 9. Eli Whitney's invention that increased slavery exponentially in the South
  7. 11. Allowed new states to vote on their own slavery laws, increasing sectionalism
  8. 13. Women's rights movement that allied with abolitionists