Civil War Causes

4. Where one has more pride for their region rather than their country as a whole
7. The half of the USA that didn't secede
8. Something made illegal by the Emancipation Proclamation.
11. This is what many consider the spark of the civil war after secession
12. A miniature civil war, and it happened in the Kansas Territory.
13. The Confederacy's best general
15. This act admitted both Missouri and Maine into the Union, and established a horizontal line across the US that determined where slavery existed. Also called the Missouri Compromise.
16. The first and only president of the Confederate States of America.

1. This act admitted California as a free state, but more importantly, it allowed new states to choose whether they are a slave or free state.
2. An act that made it law to return escaped slaves.
3. What the South did, and it was considered the last straw leading up to the Civil War.
5. What caused Bleeding Kansas.
6. The President of the United States before and during the Civil War
9. The results of this election displeased the south greatly.
10. The Union's best general
14. The half of the USA that did secede and formed the CSA