Countdown to Civil War

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Across
  1. 2. 16th president of USA
  2. 8. underground railroad
  3. 11. began in 1848
  4. 13. was attacked by the south, began the Civil War
  5. 16. wrote uncle tom's cabin
  6. 18. opposed slavery, also called democratic party
  7. 21. another name for the Know Nothing Party
  8. 22. lost to abraham lincoln
  9. 23. when a region of a country has a stronger loyalty to its own interests than to the country as a whole
Down
  1. 1. law that created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska and repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820
  2. 3. slave act law that required slaves to be returned to their owners
  3. 4. president of the confederate states
  4. 5. led violent slave revolt
  5. 6. political position that stated that territories could decide whether to allow slavery through popular sovereignty
  6. 7. name states that succeeded from union
  7. 9. promote traditional american ways
  8. 10. allowed territories to decide whether to permit slavery
  9. 12. compromise of 1850
  10. 14. Dred Scott v. Sandford was a landmark 1857 Supreme Court case that ruled that Black people were not citizens of the United States.
  11. 15. judge presiding over Dred Scott decision
  12. 17. 15th president of united states
  13. 19. people who were born in usa were against immigrants
  14. 20. a series of laws passed by Congress in September 1850 to address sectional tensions over slavery