Road to the Civil War

3. President Abraham Lincoln issued the _________ __________ on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war.
6. A raid led by John Brown taking over an arsenal in Virginia.
8. This act authorized the people of the Missouri territory to form a constitution and state government, and for the admission of such state into the Union on an equal footing with the original states, and to prohibit slavery in certain territories.
9. a person who is forced to work for and obey another and is considered to be their property.
10. The town that held the biggest battle of the entire civil war.
11. The man who led the Raid on Harpers Ferry and Bleeding Kansas.

1. This act repealed the Missouri Compromise, created two new territories, and allowed for popular sovereignty.
2. The compromise that determined that three out of every five slaves were counted when determining a state's total population for legislative representation and taxation.
4. John Brown and 4 of his sons dragged five pro-slavery people and killed them.
5. This fort that was attacked was the battle that started the civil war.
7. The period of time between the formation of the U.S. government and the outbreak of the American Civil War. During this period, federal and state governments grappled with the contradiction of U.S. slavery.