Causes of the Civil War
Across
- 4. Kansas nickname due to fighting over slavery.
- 6. Tried to arm slaves for a uprising against their masters - Harper’s Ferry
- 7. The Great Compromiser
- 8. Leave - The south began this after Lincoln’s election
- 9. Political party started to stop the spread of slavery
- 12. Repealed the Missouri Compromise - allowing popular sovereignty.
- 15. Compromise that make the 36º30’ slavery line
- 16. The Liberator publisher
- 17. Author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin
- 19. 1787 law that kept slavery out of the territories
- 20. Liberator Newspaper for immediate abolition
Down
- 1. Debate view supported voting over slavery (squatter sovereignty)
- 2. John Brown’s raid of this arsenal (gun storage) was to start a slave uprising.
- 3. Movement to get rid of slavery
- 5. Self rule - squatters/popular--- means voting on slavery
- 10. servants who worked for 5-7 years for a trip to America
- 11. “A nation divided cannot stand” statement in debate
- 13. Free state according to the Compromise of 1850.
- 14. Slave Law (Act) to return runaway slaves to their owners.
- 18. His cabin is the setting of a book about the horrors of slavery