Toward Civil War

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Across
  1. 2. A person who is running away from legal authority.
  2. 5. Virginian who expressed concerns about secession. (full name)
  3. 8. The issue of slavery split this party.
  4. 9. Where delegates met to form Confederate states.
  5. 11. Preserved the balance between slave and free states. (2 words)
  6. 13. Theory that individual states are independent and have the right to control their most important affairs. (2 words)
  7. 15. Commander who ordered the first attack of the Civil War.
  8. 16. To control.
  9. 17. claimed he was free since he lived in areas where slavery was illegal.
  10. 19. a person who dies for a great cause.
  11. 20. A proposal that would ban slavery in any land acquired from Mexico. (2 words)
  12. 21. __________ guns opened fire on April 12, 1861.
  13. 23. In 1844, Democrats nominated _________ for president.
  14. 24. Slavery supporters attacked this town in May 1856.
Down
  1. 1. To refuse to accept.
  2. 2. The place where the first shots of the Civil War where fired.(2 Words)
  3. 3. California's candidate for president in 1856.
  4. 4. a particular method for deciding the question of slavery in a place. (2 words)
  5. 6. First state to secede from the union.
  6. 7. Know-Nothings nomination for president in 1856.
  7. 10. Part of the compromise of 1850. (3 words)
  8. 12. Democratic nomination for president in 1856.
  9. 14. wanted African Americans to be fully equal to whites.
  10. 18. John Brown led a group on a raid to this town in VA. (2 words)
  11. 21. War between citizens of the same country.
  12. 22. ruled against the slaves case, said he was an enslaved person.