NORTH AND SOUTH

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Across
  1. 2. Law allowing settlers to decide if a territory allowed slavery.
  2. 4. Farming as a way of life and main Southern occupation.
  3. 8. Idea that people vote to decide an issue.
  4. 9. President elected in 1860 whose election angered the South.
  5. 10. The system in which people were treated as property and forced to work.
  6. 12. Agreement that balanced slave and free states in 1820.
  7. 15. Law requiring escaped enslaved people to be returned.
  8. 18. The Northern states that wanted to remain one country.
  9. 20. To withdraw or leave the Union.
Down
  1. 1. The system of producing and using goods and money.
  2. 3. The belief that states should decide their own laws.
  3. 5. Large farms in the South that relied on enslaved labor.
  4. 6. Southern states that separated from the United States.
  5. 7. An agreement made to settle disputes between opposing sides.
  6. 11. Event that triggered Southern secession and the Civil War.
  7. 13. Loyalty to one region rather than the whole nation.
  8. 14. Presidential election that increased tensions between North and South.
  9. 16. Movement to end slavery and those who supported it.
  10. 17. Taxes on imported goods that caused tension between North and South.
  11. 19. The North’s economy depended on factories and manufacturing.