Across
- 1. made Abraham Lincoln President
- 3. admitted missouri as a slave state amd maine as a free state
- 5. a "battle" between free and slave states over the Kansas-Nebraska act
- 6. allowed new states to vote on whether or not they would be a free state or a slave state
- 8. said that the declaration of independence did not apply to slaves
- 10. the practice or system of owning slaves.
- 11. a law that required all citizens to help in the capture runaway slaves
- 12. Raided Harper's Ferry for weapons, was executed in 1860
- 13. president of the Union during the civil war
- 14. made California a free state, established the Texas border, outlawed slave trade in Washington DC, etc.
- 15. the action of withdrawing formally from membership of a federation or body, especially a political state
Down
- 2. the government of 11 Southern states that seceded from the Union in 1860–61, carrying on all the affairs of a separate government
- 4. some states thought they could secede if they didn't like laws passed by the federal government
- 7. a slave who sued his master for freedom and lost
- 9. greater loyalty to your own section