The American Civil War (Part 1)

4. What Supreme Court case proved that African Americans are not citizens and might never be regarded equal to white men? (First & last name)
6. This Act would allow citizens of a territory to determine whether the state would be a free state or a slave state.
8. The first Republican President of the US. (Last name)
9. Northern Democrats, Whigs, and Free Soil Westerners came together to form what political party?
12. At the beginning of the American Civil War, the states in the south relied on slave labor for _______ to drive their economy.
13. To break away from a country and form your own.
15. During the Election of 1860, there was increasing _______ in American politics.
16. The _______ _______ Act forced any runaway slaves caught in free states to be returned to their slave owners.
17. Due to the rivalries between states over slavery, the United States found itself in a _______ war amongst itself.
18. During the Lincoln-Douglas debates, Lincoln argued that all men, including enslaved men, were entitled to basic _______.

1. The Republican Party did not want slavery to _______ into the new territories.
2. Most Southerners were affiliated with this political party.
3. What incident happened as a result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
5. What law was replaced with the system of popular sovereignty?
7. During his 1st Inaugural Address, Abraham Lincoln tried to appease Southerners by saying he would not try to abolish _______ in states where it already existed.
10. What did the states in the North rely mostly on for their economy?
11. In 1859, John Brown and 21 other men led a raid on _______ _______ to incite a slave revolt.
12. What is a person who wants to get rid of slavery called?
14. In a speech during 1858, Abraham Lincoln said, "a house _______ against itself cannot stand", calling for the country to either be all free or all slave.