Across
- 3. Wilmont Proviso suggested all lands from Mexican Cession had no slaves
- 6. He sued his master for his freedom. The supreme court ruled slaves were no legal citizens
- 8. African Americans worked on plantations in the South
- 9. 11 southern states leave the union
- 11. The 16th President of the United States
- 12. What the north called themselves during the Civi War
- 13. Northern abolitionist launched a slave revolt in 1859
- 14. required all citizens to help catch runaway slaves
Down
- 1. The war that started in 1861
- 2. What the South called themselves once they secede from the main country
- 4. Some states, like South Carolina, thought they could leave the union of they didn't like the laws being passed by the federal government
- 5. The new states would vote if their states could be admitted as a free or slave state.
- 7. Admitted Missouri as slave state and Maine as a non slave state, keeping the number of slave and free states equal
- 10. Abraham Lincoln became the 16th president campaigning on a platform opposing the spread of slavery