Sectionalism + civil war vocabulary

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Across
  1. 6. allowed Kansas settlers to vote whether or not to permit slavery in the territory; violence erupted; slavery prohibited
  2. 8. A military tactic used to cut off supplies and reinforcements from reaching enemy ports
  3. 10. Civil war U.S president; against secession; wanted to preserve the union
  4. 11. Plantation system, slave labor; cotton produced and sent to northern factories
  5. 12. North and south agreed; California became a free state; strict fugitive slave law was passed
  6. 14. Textile mills, trade, factories, immigrant labor, some trade-related slave labor
  7. 15. The act of withdrawing from a federation or body
Down
  1. 1. part of the compromise of 1850; runaway slaves and free Blacks were at risk of being captured by slave hunters
  2. 2. region’s geography impacted its economy; North built factories, South farmed, West mined; a cause of the civil war
  3. 3. confederacy surrendered to union in virginia; ended the civil war
  4. 4. Mining and agriculture
  5. 5. The first major battle of the civil war
  6. 7. union captured mississippi river, dividing the confederacy in half
  7. 9. more factories, railroads and money and leadership of general grant
  8. 13. Major debate leading up to the civil war; Republican party (lincoln) against its spread into new territories