Causes of the Civil War

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Across
  1. 4. Political party of Southern states during antebellum
  2. 5. He wrote the Kansas-Nebraska Act
  3. 8. major cash crop of the Southern economy
  4. 12. Period of time prior to the Civil War
  5. 16. He won the election of 1860
  6. 20. Made it a crime to help runaway slaves
  7. 21. A person who fought to end slavery
  8. 23. Last name of the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin
  9. 24. To withdraw from the United States
  10. 26. Northern states
  11. 28. To pass a law
Down
  1. 1. Known as the "Great Compromiser"
  2. 2. First state to secede from the Union
  3. 3. Political party united against the spread of slavery
  4. 6. The main cause of the civil war
  5. 7. States have the power to nullify or cancel federal law (nullification crisis is an example)
  6. 9. an agreement reached when both sides make concessions
  7. 10. inventor of the cotton gin
  8. 11. President James ___ failed to deal with secession
  9. 13. Popular Sovereignty
  10. 14. The ____ states had an economy based on slavery
  11. 15. ____ Kansas due to the violence over slavery
  12. 17. To cancel or refuse to follow a federal law
  13. 18. Uncle Tom's ______ was an anti-slavery novel
  14. 19. The Kansas-Nebraska Act nullified the ___ Compromise
  15. 22. Southern states' name after seceding
  16. 25. First shots fired of the Civil War
  17. 27. The ____ states had an economy based on industry