Causes of the Civil War

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Across
  1. 3. Tariff of 1828 was also known as the Tariff of ___
  2. 5. War between the states
  3. 7. First state to secede from the United States
  4. 8. Fort the Confederate troops fired upon to begin the Civil War
  5. 11. Leaving the Union
  6. 12. Best-selling novel of the 19th Century
  7. 13. Became president after Taylor's death
  8. 15. Slave who argued to the Supreme Court he should be free, as his owner took him to a free state
  9. 17. 1850 law that required people to return escaped slaves to slavery
  10. 19. Franklin Pierce's political party
  11. 20. Led a raid on Harper's Ferry
  12. 21. Fighting as a direct results of voting for slavery in Kansas
  13. 24. Act introduced by Stephen Douglas
  14. 25. Voting would be used to allow slavery or not
  15. 27. Beaten with a cane for insulting pro-slavery Senator Butler
  16. 28. Zachary Taylor's political party
  17. 29. Compromise of 1850 admitted this as a free state
Down
  1. 1. Abraham Lincoln's political party
  2. 2. Created a line dividing free/slave states
  3. 4. Members of this party, Whig and some Democrats joined to create the Republican Party
  4. 6. Southern states felt politically ___, as a president could be elected without their support
  5. 9. Won the election of 1856
  6. 10. The act of declaring a law invalid, or refusing to follow it
  7. 14. Name the southern states gave their new country
  8. 16. Slave that led a revolt in Virginia in 1831
  9. 18. President of the Confederate States
  10. 22. Debated with Abraham Lincoln 7 times
  11. 23. Settlers wanted this in Kansas and Nebraska despite the Missouri Compromise
  12. 26. Constitution written by people from Missouri to govern Kansas