Causes of the Civil War

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Across
  1. 2. This state caused citizens to fight over if it was free or not.
  2. 4. An event that made states wonder if they could appeal laws or not.
  3. 8. The year the 16th president was elected.
  4. 9. The event that led to the compromise of 1850.
  5. 10. The man that formed a raid with enslaved people to rise up against their en-slavers.
  6. 15. A secret path to freedom.
  7. 16. The act that brought harsher punishments to slaves trying to escape.
  8. 17. An alternative to nullification.
  9. 18. The candidate of the Democratic party during the election.
  10. 19. First state to secede from the Union.
  11. 20. The political party that was formed due to the Kansas-Nebraska act.
Down
  1. 1. This person helped over 35 slaves escape to freedom.
  2. 3. South Carolina appealed this.
  3. 5. The president that when elected,caused states to secede.
  4. 6. The decision that ruled slaves are not citizens of the US and are instead property.
  5. 7. This was going to go through Kansas which caused the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
  6. 11. This man sued his own en-slavers.
  7. 12. The type of state California became.
  8. 13. The area that enforced the Fugitive Slave Act.
  9. 14. The compromise that separated free states from slave states.