civil war

4. 5th southern state to secede
5. It “guaranteed” the return of any runaway slave to their owners
8. Confederate states
10. Led by general Sherman and his crew
11. included California entering the Union as a free state, defining Texas's border in return for debt relief, establishing New Mexico and Utah as official territories, and finally banning the slave trade in the District of Columbia in exchange for a new fugitive slave law.
12. a person who favors the abolition of a practice or institution, especially capital punishment or
13. Belief that the interests of the states were higher than the interests of the federal government!
14. condition in which one human being was owned by another
15. Union states

1. States can ignore a federal law
2. Four candidates ran for president in 1860
3. slaves fleeing to free states
6. Dred Scott v. Sandford case
7. With the nation facing the potential threat of disunion over the passage of the Compromise of 1850, Georgia, in a special state convention, adopted a proclamation called the
9. 1st southern state to secede