1850s America

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Across
  1. 2. person who beat lincoln for senate seat in 1858
  2. 3. first women's rights convention
  3. 4. belief that humans can rise above material things in life
  4. 5. idea that people should not follow laws they believe are unjust
  5. 8. last name of the 15th president (won in 1856)
  6. 11. attacked on the senate floor
  7. 14. type of school that got child offenders out of adult prisons
  8. 16. mini civil war in kansas over slavery
  9. 17. movement to get rid of alcohol
Down
  1. 1. proposed by Stephen Douglass
  2. 6. Henry David Thoreau's book about living in nature and solitude
  3. 7. created mental asylums
  4. 9. period before the civil war
  5. 10. last name of abolitionist who published The Liberator
  6. 12. sued for his freedom after living in free territory
  7. 13. led a raid on an armory in harpers ferry
  8. 15. law that increased tension between north and south