Causes of Civil War Review

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Across
  1. 7. The Southern states that seceded during the Civil War were known as the ___________ States.
  2. 9. The Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854) allowed Kansas and Nebraska to use ________ to decide if slavery was allowed.
  3. 11. ________ was a slave from Missouri who sued for his freedom after he was brought to free territories.
  4. 13. This radical abolitionist attempted to raid the federal arsenal in Harpers Ferry, VA.
  5. 14. The violence between pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers in Kansas was known as "__________."
Down
  1. 1. These were people who wanted to abolish (end) slavery.
  2. 2. In the Missouri Compromise (1820), slavery was banned north of the Missouri ________________________.
  3. 3. The _________ Party was formed in 1854 in response to the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
  4. 4. The most controversial part of the Compromise of 1850 was the new ___________ Law.
  5. 5. After the Election of 1860, Southern states began to _______ from the Union.
  6. 6. Harriet Beecher Stowe published this best-selling anti-slavery novel in 1852.
  7. 8. The _______ states were slave states that remained part of the Union during the Civil War.
  8. 10. Abraham _________ was the winner of the Election of 1860.
  9. 12. In the Compromise of 1850, _________ became a free state.