Causes of the Revolution

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Across
  1. 3. Wilmont Proviso suggested all lands from Mexican Cession had no slaves
  2. 6. He sued his master for his freedom. The supreme court ruled slaves were no legal citizens
  3. 8. African Americans worked on plantations in the South
  4. 9. 11 southern states leave the union
  5. 11. The 16th President of the United States
  6. 12. What the north called themselves during the Civi War
  7. 13. Northern abolitionist launched a slave revolt in 1859
  8. 14. required all citizens to help catch runaway slaves
Down
  1. 1. The war that started in 1861
  2. 2. What the South called themselves once they secede from the main country
  3. 4. Some states, like South Carolina, thought they could leave the union of they didn't like the laws being passed by the federal government
  4. 5. The new states would vote if their states could be admitted as a free or slave state.
  5. 7. Admitted Missouri as slave state and Maine as a non slave state, keeping the number of slave and free states equal
  6. 10. Abraham Lincoln became the 16th president campaigning on a platform opposing the spread of slavery