Events leading to the Civil War Crossword- Rishitha Tati
Across
- 2. 1854 law letting people in new states vote on slavery.
- 6. Violent fighting in Kansas over slavery.
- 7. When Southern states left the United States.
- 8. Supreme Court case that said Black people couldn't be citizens.
- 10. 1859 raid by an abolitionist on a Virginia arsenal.
- 12. Region with lots of factories and cities
- 14. tax law that tried to fix the earlier tariff but still upset the South
Down
- 1. 1858 debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas about slavery.
- 3. 1820 law letting Missouri join as a slave state and Maine as free.
- 4. 1860 event Abraham Lincoln won, causing southern states to leave.
- 5. Famous anti-slavery book by Harriet Beecher Stowe.
- 9. 1850 law admitting California as a free state with a tougher Fugitive Slave Law.
- 11. Region with lots of farms and slavery.
- 13. law that raised taxes on imports and angered the South