Lead up to the civil war

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Across
  1. 2. An American abolitionist in the decades preceding the Civil War
  2. 4. An agricultural product that increased slavery in the south
  3. 5. A law that admitted Missouri as a slave state
  4. 7. the political and social movement to end slavery and the slave trade
  5. 10. required the seizure and return of escaped enslaved people to their owners
  6. 11. a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court that held the U.S. Constitution did not extend American citizenship to people of black African descent
Down
  1. 1. A series of five legislatives acts meant to prevent the civil war
  2. 3. A law that allowed residents to vote on slavery
  3. 6. A system in which enslaved people are treated as personal property
  4. 8. A conflict between Mexico and the United States over territories
  5. 9. a series of violent civil confrontations in the Kansas Territory