Causes of the Civil War Crossword

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  1. 1. Name of the act/law that forced all Americans to return any runaway slaves to their owners
  2. 3. This state's bid to enter the Union in 1820 would upset the balance of power between slave and free
  3. 6. Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin (last name)
  4. 7. His election pushed the South the seceed from the United States
  5. 9. A person who wants to eliminate slavery
  6. 10. This slave sued for his freedom and lost
  7. 11. Where John Brown took over a Federal arsenal in Virginia
  8. 12. This state was the first to break away from the Union on 12/20/1860
  9. 14. he provided guns to slaves to use against their owners
  10. 15. Nickname given to Kansas due to the violent fighting that occurred there in 1854
Down
  1. 2. The breaking away of states from a country
  2. 4. A major source of tension between the North and the South in the years leading up to the Civil War
  3. 5. What the South called themselves during the Civil War
  4. 6. the belief that the states had the right to judge and disregard Federal law that it found unconstitutional
  5. 8. book that made a big impact on the antislavery movement in America
  6. 13. First Union fort to be attacked by Confederate troops and started the Civil War