Causes of the Civil War

4. African American man who went to court and sued for his freedom
8. Written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, abolitionist book
11. Name of the remaining Northern and Western states and territories
13. Someone to dies for their beliefs or for a cause
14. Republican President, wins the election of 1860 because of the Southern split over slavery
15. Admitted Kansas and Nebraska as official territories, started "Bleeding Kansas"
17. A tax on imported goods
18. To remove or repeal a law

1. Compromise that kept Congress balanced, banned slavery in the northern territories
2. Political party is antislavery and supports the central government
3. The rights of states, not the rights of the federal government
5. Part of the Constitution, about catching runaway enslaved people, made worse by the Compromise of 1850
6. To officially withdraw or leave a union or alliance
7. Abolitionist, led a raid at Harper's Ferry, and wanted to start a slave rebellion
9. Territories decide the legality of slavery, admits California, Fugitive Slave Act worsens
10. Name of the Southern states that seceded
12. Proslavery party that supports state's rights
16. States focus on their own regional interests, states don't care about the nation