Causes of the Civil War

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Across
  1. 3. Southern states felt the government was taking away their ____.
  2. 7. Kansas was _____ with supporters on both sides.
  3. 9. After the Election of 1860, the _______ states started to secede.
  4. 11. To leave or withdraw.
  5. 12. Lincoln was a member of the new _____ Party.
  6. 16. First state to secede from the Union. (2 words - no spaces)
  7. 17. Lincoln was on the ballot in ____ southern states.
  8. 18. Number of states that seceded from the Union.
Down
  1. 1. The northern economy was largely based on _____ (2 words - no spaces)
  2. 2. Southern economy was based on _____.
  3. 4. The United States continued to expand ____.
  4. 5. People who wanted to end slavery.
  5. 6. Southerners felt Lincoln was against ____.
  6. 8. In Dred Scott v. Sanford, the Supreme Court claimed enslaved people were ____.
  7. 10. Main reason for the Civil War.
  8. 13. Each new state became a ____ over slavery.
  9. 14. Because of the fighting, Kansas was known as ______. (2 words - no spaces)
  10. 15. Invention of the ______ increased the south's need for slavery. (2 words- no spaces)