The Civil War

2. requires every state to return runaway slaves.
5. Lincoln wanted to preserve the union promising the remaining slave states to provide federal property in the south.
8. This is where the civil war started.
12. A war between citizens of the same country.
15. John Brown led an attack that killed five supporters of slavery.
17. california would be a free state, but other new territories would have no limits on slavery.
18. Some southerners welcomed secession while others thought it was alarming.
19. Was a way to help runaway slaves find their freedom.
20. The 16th president of the
22. organized the region west of missouri and iowa as the territories of kansas and nebraska.
23. A person who dies for a cause
24. President of the Confederate States of America.
25. Armed pro-slavery supporters who crossed the border from Missouri just to vote.

1. Anti slavery Whigs and Democrats joined with free soilers to form the _________.
3. The slave who tried to sue for his freedom.
4. The first state to secede
6. When south Carolina seceded from the union in 1860, senator John Crittendon of Kentucky suggested a series of amendments to the constitution.
7. Lincoln challenged douglas to a series of debates.
9. Free soil, free speech, and Freemont.
10. An act which determined where slavery stopped, the 36 degrees 30´N latitude.
11. The republicans nominated Abraham Lincoln, they wanted to leave slavery alone where it existed, but also ban it in the territories.
13. A storage site for weapons
14. The person who supplied weapons to enslaved africans and started a revolt.
16. States that withdraw from the union.
21. People should decide for themselves whether their territories would enter the union as a free state or a slave state.