Civil War Crossword

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  1. 3. Abolitionist John Brown attempted a raid on what city?
  2. 6. Who proposed the compromise of 1850?
  3. 7. What series of laws were passed relating to slavery?
  4. 8. The Confederates attacked anyway and started the _____ war.
  5. 10. Who won the election of 1850?
  6. 11. What did the South use to justify their secession?
  7. 13. Crittenden proposed an amendment to provide __________ to slavery south of the Mason-Dixon line.
  8. 15. Lincoln promised that soldiers on their way to resupply Fort Sumter would not ______ unless fired upon.
  9. 16. By February 1861, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, _______, and Georgia had joined South Carolina and seceded.
  10. 18. Brown attempted to give slaves _______ to revolt against their masters.
  11. 21. What did Dred Scott attempt to sue for?
  12. 23. Popular sovereignty caused people from all over to come to Kansas to vote for or against _______.
  13. 25. Which act required for slaves to be returned to their owners?
  14. 27. Who was the following quote said to? "Now if . . . I should forfeit my life for the furtherance of the ends of justice and MINGLE MY BLOOD . . . with the blood of millions in this slave country whose rights are disregarded by wicked, cruel, and unjust enactments—I submit; so LET IT BE DONE."
  15. 28. The south wanted the Fugitive slave act because of an increase in ____________.
  16. 29. Most Southerners celebrated secession, while most Northerners believed the Union should be _________.
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  1. 1. Who won the 1860 election?
  2. 2. Lincoln and Douglas had discussions over the issue of slavery, which became known as the Lincoln-Douglas _______.
  3. 4. The Supreme Court ruled that the limit of slavery was _________________.
  4. 5. What was the fight between rival governments within the Kansas territory called?
  5. 9. Lincoln said the following quote at his ____________: "In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The Government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. . . We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection."
  6. 12. Which state was the first to secede from the Union on December 20,1860?
  7. 14. The Kansas-Nebraska act created two territories,and established the principle of ___________.
  8. 17. What did many people see Brown as?
  9. 19. What did the slave states do after the 1860 election?
  10. 20. The Republicans wanted to keep slavery where it was, but repeal it in the ___________.
  11. 22. The Kansas-Nebraska act repealed the ________ Compromise.
  12. 24. Buchanan was part of the __________ party, which was supportive of popular sovereignty.
  13. 26. Who said the following quote? "But in the right to eat the bread . . . which his own hand earns, [an African American] is my equal and the equal of [Senator] Douglas, and the equal of every living man."