Causes leading to the Civil War

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Across
  1. 1. A U.S. Supreme Court case decision in which enslaved people were not U.S citizens and therefore could not sue in court
  2. 5. The result was that South Carolina succeeded from the Union
  3. 6. This act stated that if slaves were to runaway to northern states, they would be returned to their state
  4. 9. Southern states would accept the Compromise of 1850, if northern states followed the Fugitive Slave Act
  5. 10. The belief that the states interests take precedence over the interests of the national government
  6. 11. Admitted as a free state as part of the Compromise of 1850
  7. 13. Admitted as a free state under the Missouri Compromise
  8. 14. Could transport items that were north of the Fall Line
Down
  1. 2. of 1850 This compromise included 4 components with one being that Washington D.C abolished slave trade
  2. 3. The numerical numbers of the line for the Missouri Compromise
  3. 4. Loyalty or support to a specific region of a country
  4. 7. The person that won the Election of 1860
  5. 8. Known as the "King Crop"
  6. 12. The legal theory that states had the right to not follow any law they believed to be unconstitutional