Beginning of Civil War

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  1. 4. Candidate in election of 1860 that appealed to border states between the North and South who wanted to preserve the union
  2. 6. John Brown raid that led to his arrest and eventual execution
  3. 7. The side with a smaller population
  4. 9. First name of the guy who wanted to make territory from Mexico free territory
  5. 11. Home state of Crittenden
  6. 14. The side that started the attack on Fort Sumter
  7. 15. Two states that seceded from the union along with South Carolina. First state has 7 letters the second has 9
  8. 16. Compromise needed because of the results of the Mexican American War
  9. 18. Winfield Scott proposed blocking the Southern ports of the Atlantic and here, to prevent the South from supplying itself
  10. 19. Unofficially, the first battle of the Civil War
  11. 21. As the new president, Lincoln's goal was not save this...
  12. 23. Before being president, Jefferson Davis was a senator from this state
  13. 24. Chief justice who oversaw Dred Scott V Sandford
  14. 25. Northern advantage that led to raising more money
  15. 26. Purchase after the Mexican American War that completes the dream of Manifest Destiny
  16. 30. In other words, to vote
  17. 32. Capital of the Confederacy
  18. 35. Abolished in Washington DC
  19. 37. Democratic Winner of the election of 1856 who was still in office when South Carolina seceded
  20. 39. President of the South
  21. 40. The South often had to play this strategy - hoping the North would eventually give up
  22. 41. This teritorry separarted from itself to join the Union in 1863
  23. 42. In the election of 1860, Nothern states had more of these kind of votes
  24. 43. Animal that Scott named his plan after
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  1. 1. Line that Crittenden wanted to extend all the way to the pacific ocean
  2. 2. Crisis that South Carolina went through and nearly seceded during the era of Andrew Jackson over the issue of tariffs
  3. 3. Temporary capital of the Southern states
  4. 5. The justification, or reason, given by southern states to explain secession
  5. 8. According Scott V Sandford, slaves are not considered one of these...
  6. 10. Creator of both compromises
  7. 12. People from Missouri who came into Kansas
  8. 13. Examples include Mississippi, Kentucky, Maryland, and Delaware
  9. 17. Southerners felt as though Northerners broke this law purposely
  10. 20. Party that split into 2 because it could not agree over the issue of slavery
  11. 22. Another word for all branches of armed forces
  12. 27. The party of Lincoln
  13. 28. The South hoped these two would step in after their cotton exports were no longer able to be sold
  14. 29. Territory where Scott once lived that he used to justify his freedom
  15. 31. The number of governments in Kansas as a result of popular sovereignty
  16. 33. Cash crop of the South leading up to the Civil War
  17. 34. Last name of a famous southern general who graduated alongside Jefferson Davis at West Point
  18. 36. To leave or withdraw
  19. 38. After the attack on Fort Sumter, Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and this state all joined the confederacy