CIVIL WAR; Vocab Crossword puzzle

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Across
  1. 5. The act of making legally null and void.
  2. 8. Compromise that brought missouri into the Union as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
  3. 10. Act that required runaway slaves to be returned to their masters if caught anywhere in the United States.
  4. 11. Supreme Court ruling that declared slaves were not citizens of the United States (1857).
Down
  1. 1. Position supported by several prominent Georgia politicians who supported the Compromise of 1850.
  2. 2. The act of separating from a nation or state and becoming independent; the withdraw of eleven southern states from the Union in 1860-1861.
  3. 3. Compromise between North and South that allowed California to enter the union in exchange for the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act.
  4. 4. States where slavery was NOT legal.
  5. 6. States where slavery WAS legal.
  6. 7. The belief that a state's sovereignty is more important than that of a national government.
  7. 9. Involuntary servitude of African-Americans or Blacks in the United States (1619-1865).