Events Leading to the Civil War

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  1. 5. The slave whose case went to the Supreme Court and they ruled African Americans are not citizens.
  2. 7. Representive who tried to outlaw slavery in the new U.S. territories.
  3. 9. The slave-holding states that stayed with the Union.
  4. 11. Where the first shots of the Civil War were fired
  5. 13. This means to ignore a federal law
  6. 14. A radical abolitionist who was hanged for raiding an arsenal.
  7. 15. This act allowed the citizens of this territory to vote for or against slavery.
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  1. 1. Best selling book that told of the horrors of slavery
  2. 2. The Compromise of 1850 abolished this in Washington, D.C.
  3. 3. The man Abraham Lincoln famously debated about slavery.
  4. 4. This allowed escaped slaves to be captured in the North and returned to their owners.
  5. 6. Missouri Compromise of 1820 allowed this state to be a slave state.
  6. 8. The Compromise of 1850 allowed this state to enter as a free state.
  7. 10. This state seceded when Lincoln was elected president in 1860.
  8. 12. Missouri Compromise of 1820 allowed this state to be a free state.