Causes of the Civil War Crossword Puzzle

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.