Civil War Facts

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Across
  1. 4. machine invented by Eli Whitney in 1793 that quickly removed seeds from the cotton
  2. 6. Platform position supported by several prominent Georgia politicians who supported the
  3. 7. the belief that a state’s sovereignty is more important than that of the national
  4. 10. States.
  5. 11. in exchange for the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act.
  6. 13. election Southern states seceded from the Union.
  7. 15. election where Abraham Lincoln defeated three opponents to win the presidency; upon
  8. 16. involuntary servitude of African-Americans or Blacks in the United States from 1619-1865.
  9. 17. anywhere in the United States.
Down
  1. 1. of 1850.
  2. 2. states where slavery was not legal.
  3. 3. the act of separating from a nation or state and becoming independent
  4. 5. Supreme Court ruling that declared enslaved people were not citizens of the
  5. 8. compromise between the North and South that allowed California to enter the
  6. 9. The 16th president of the United States Nullification the act of making legally null and void.
  7. 12. states where slavery was legal.
  8. 14. act that required runaway enslaved people to be returned to their masters if