Causes of the Civil War Crossword Puzzle

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QUESTIONS LIST: secede : to leave or withdraw, railroad : underground _ - series of escape routes and hiding places to bring slaves out of the south, discrimination : unfair treatment of particular groups, king cotton : cotton and cotton-growing considered, in the pre civil war south, as a vital commodity, the major factor not only in the economy but also in politics, draft : a system of required military service, fugitive : _ slave law- this law required that northern states forcibly returned escaped slaves to their owners, sectionalism : loyalty to one part of the country, missouri compromise : "compromise of 1820" over the issue of slavery in missouri. it was decided missouri entered as a slave state and maine entered as a free state and all states north of the 36th parallel were free states and all south were slave states, tariff : tax on imported goods, states rights : the ideas that states, not federal government, should make final decisions that affect them, abolitionist : someone who joined the movement to abolish, or end slavery, sovereignty : popular _ - the right of people to make political decisions for themselves.