Across
- 4. The rights and powers held by individual US states.
- 9. One of the most pivotal presidential elections that ended slavery.
- 10. Allowed residents of Kansas and Nebraska to decide on slavery through popular sovereignty.
- 11. A fort in South Carolina that guards that the Charleston Harbor.
- 12. Declared that enslaved people were not US citizens and could not sue in federal court.
Down
- 1. A failed attempt on a raid of Harpers Ferry.
- 2. Admitted Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state.
- 3. The North relied on free labor while the South relied on slave labor.
- 5. Series of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln and the Republican Party candidates.
- 6. An anti-slavery novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe.
- 7. The issue of the institution of slavery and its expansion.
- 8. Taxes on imported good during the Civil War