Events leading to the Civil War Crossword- Rishitha Tati

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Across
  1. 2. 1854 law letting people in new states vote on slavery.
  2. 6. Violent fighting in Kansas over slavery.
  3. 7. When Southern states left the United States.
  4. 8. Supreme Court case that said Black people couldn't be citizens.
  5. 10. 1859 raid by an abolitionist on a Virginia arsenal.
  6. 12. Region with lots of factories and cities
  7. 14. tax law that tried to fix the earlier tariff but still upset the South
Down
  1. 1. 1858 debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas about slavery.
  2. 3. 1820 law letting Missouri join as a slave state and Maine as free.
  3. 4. 1860 event Abraham Lincoln won, causing southern states to leave.
  4. 5. Famous anti-slavery book by Harriet Beecher Stowe.
  5. 9. 1850 law admitting California as a free state with a tougher Fugitive Slave Law.
  6. 11. Region with lots of farms and slavery.
  7. 13. law that raised taxes on imports and angered the South