Pre Civil War

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Across
  1. 6. of 1850
  2. 7. Southern states feared slavery’s end.
  3. 8. denied jury trial to alleged fugitive
  4. 10. temporary solution to balance free states and slave states
  5. 12. Series of debates for Illinois Senate race.
  6. 15. supported by Stephen A. Dongles
  7. 16. Attracted many former Whigs and Free-Soilers.
Down
  1. 1. Jefferson Davis elected President of Confederacy.
  2. 2. Proposed by Stephen A. Douglas.
  3. 3. Violence between proslavery and antislavery settlers in Kansas.
  4. 4. Increased sectional tensions.
  5. 5. Planned to start a slave revolt
  6. 9. first state to secede from union
  7. 11. exposed the cruelty of slavery
  8. 13. First shots of the Civil War.
  9. 14. led raid on Harper's Ferry