Civil War Crossword

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  1. 4. In 1846 David Wilmot attempted to ban slavery in newly acquired territory from the Mexican-American War.
  2. 6. The primary cause of the American Civil War.
  3. 9. What the South did to the North.
  4. 13. Removing the shackles.
  5. 14. The group of northern states that remained after the South seceded.
  6. 15. A large government that watches over a number of smaller territories or states.
Down
  1. 1. States were given popular sovereignty after the admission of California as a free state.
  2. 2. The group of states that seceded from the northern states.
  3. 3. The boundary established when the Missouri Compromise was passed.
  4. 5. Repealed the Missouri Compromise.
  5. 7. Enslaved people were not citizens and therefore no rights protected by the Constitution.
  6. 8. Tried to strike a balance between slave a free states.
  7. 10. Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote a book that supported the cause.
  8. 11. RIGHTS The belief that state laws should override federal laws.
  9. 12. Prohibited public discussion of slavery in Congress.