Preludes to the Civil War

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Across
  1. 2. Invaded the Arsenol at Harper's Ferry to try and free the slaves.
  2. 4. The ____________________ used the 36 1/2 rule to add Missouri as a slave state.
  3. 7. Northern states believed slavery was a moral________.
  4. 9. Allowed southern slave owners to capture runaway slaves in the south.
  5. 11. Something that comes before a more important event.
  6. 13. Won the election of 1860.
  7. 14. The supreme court ruled that slaves were not people but ___________.
  8. 15. A tax on foreign goods.
  9. 17. The name of the country the southern states created after seceding from the Union.
Down
  1. 1. Southern states made most of their money by growing and selling _______.
  2. 3. When boarder ruffians from Missouri invaded Kansas to force them to allow slavery in their state.
  3. 5. Northern states were ______________ oriented.
  4. 6. To Leave
  5. 8. The state that joined the U.S in 1845
  6. 10. Southern states believed slavery was ____________ necessary.
  7. 12. The slave who sued for his freedom against Sanford.
  8. 16. The general who stopped John Brown from invaded the arsenal at Harpers Ferry