CAUSES OF THE CIVIL WAR

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Across
  1. 3. A machine for cleaning the seeds from cotton fibers, invented by Eli Whitney in 1793
  2. 4. withdraw formally from membership in a federal union
  3. 5. a person who wanted to end slavery
  4. 7. An abolitionist who attempted to lead a slave revolt by capturing Armories in southern territory and giving weapons to slaves, was hung in Harpers Ferry after capturing an Armory
  5. 10. 16th president of the US
  6. 13. first state to secede from the Union
  7. 15. abolitionist who wrote the book Uncle Tom's Cabin to convince people to join the abolitionist cause
  8. 16. a law that allowed voters in Kansas and Nebraska to choose whether to allow slavery
  9. 17. ______ States of America - a republic formed in February of 1861 composed of the 11 southern states that seceded from the US
Down
  1. 1. ____ Compromise over the issue of slavery in Missouri. It was decided Missouri entered as a slave state and Maine entered as a free state and all states North of the 36th parallel were free states and all South were slave states
  2. 2. a system of secret routes used by escaping slaves to reach freedom in the North or in Canada
  3. 6. an enslaved African American man in the United States who unsuccessfully sued for his freedom
  4. 8. John Brown's scheme to invade the South with armed slaves, backed by sponsoring, northern abolitionists; seized the federal arsenal
  5. 9. A sequence of violent events involving abolitionists and pro-Slavery elements that took place in Kansas-Nebraska Territory. The dispute further strained the relations of the North and South, making civil war imminent.
  6. 11. ex-slave, conductor of the Underground Railroad, which helped slaves escape and go north to freedom
  7. 12. first battle of the Civil War
  8. 14. the law that admitted California as a free state and popular sovereignty to Utah and New Mexico