Civil War

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Across
  1. 4. In these debates, Abraham Lincoln argued with Stephen Douglas about slavery.
  2. 5. At 4:30 a.m. on April 12, 1861, Confederate troops fired on Fort Sumter in South Carolina's Charleston Harbor.
  3. 6. The act allowed the people of each territory to decide whether or not to allow slavery.
  4. 8. He organized a raid in Harpers Ferry in hopes that slaves would take weapons from an arsenal, or a collection of weapons for later use, and fight for freedom.
Down
  1. 1. It allowed Missouri to become the 24th state in the United States. It also began the conflict over the spread of slavery that led to the American Civil War.
  2. 2. It was an ugly war between groups of people who had strong beliefs about slavery.
  3. 3. Allowed California to be admitted as a free state and the admission New Mexico Territory and Utah Territory with slavery was left to the decision of the people in relation to popular sovereignty on slavery.
  4. 7. The United States Supreme Court upheld slavery in United States territories, denied the legality of black citizenship in America, and declared the Missouri Compromise to be unconstitutional.