Causes of the Civil War

3. The first state to leave the Union.
5. An abolotionist who used violence in Kansas to stop the spread of slavery.
8. Ran for president in 1860 as a republican and won.
9. To separate or leave the Union
12. California was a free state, stronger fugitive slave laws and banned the slave trade in D.C.
13. created the Kansas-Nebraska Act and ran for president in 1860.
14. Required all citizens to help return runaway slaves.
15. Violence in Kansas where people fought to make Kansas a slave state or a free state.

1. Sued for his freedom because he lived in a free state.
2. Exaggerated loyalty to a particular region of the country.
4. The idea that allows the people to make their own decisions.
6. The chief justice of the Supreme Court who ruled on the Dred Scott Case.
7. Armed groups from Missouri that crossed over to Kansas and wanted Kansas to be a slave state.
10. The first shots of the Civil War were fired here.
11. A democrate who won the election of 1856.
12. A conflict between citizens from the same country.