Causes of the Civil War

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Across
  1. 3. General who caught John Brown, resulting in the latter's execution
  2. 4. New political party founded on antislavery principles
  3. 8. Act of leaving the United States
  4. 10. Senator and 1844 presidential candidate who developed the American System and wrote the Missouri Compromise
  5. 13. War between the United States and Mexico that started over a border dispute regarding Texas
  6. 14. Territory in the southwestern United States that was part of the Mexican Cession and eventually became the name of a state
  7. 16. Proposed (and failed) law that would ban slavery in the entire Mexican Cession
  8. 17. War War between 1861-65 that was primarily fought over slavery
  9. 20. Territory in the Pacific Northwest that was contested between the United States and Britain
  10. 21. President who initiated the annexation of Texas
  11. 22. Law that admitted Kansas and Nebraska as territories and officially repealed the Missouri Compromise
  12. 25. Name of the treaty that ended the Mexican War
  13. 26. President elected in 1844 who championed Manifest Destiny
  14. 28. Belief that God wanted America to span from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean
  15. 29. Mineral that was discovered in California that caused its population to rapidly increase
Down
  1. 1. Location in (currently West) Virginia that was the site of John Brown's raid
  2. 2. State that started out as part of Mexico, became an independent country, and then was annexed into the United States
  3. 5. Slave who sued for his freedom and lost, resulting in the Supreme Court ruling Black people as noncitizens and slaves as property
  4. 6. Concept of states being allowed to choose whether or not to allow slavery, regardless of their geographic location
  5. 7. River that serves as Texas' current southern border
  6. 9. Violence in Kansas between pro- and anti-slavery factions
  7. 11. Type of law that required runaway slaves to be returned to their owners
  8. 12. First state to secede in December 1860, causing others to follow
  9. 13. Collective name for the territory gained from the Mexican War
  10. 15. State that was admitted as a SLAVE state following the Missouri Compromise
  11. 18. Act of absorbing one country into another
  12. 19. Abolitionist who participated in Bleeding Kansas and led the Raid of Harpers Ferry
  13. 23. 16th president and first republican president
  14. 24. State drawn from the Mexican Cession that wanted to be admitted as a free state, causing the Compromise of 1850
  15. 27. State that was admitted as a FREE state following the Missouri Compromise