The Road To Disunion

3. What the Compromise of 1850 became to the controversies over slavery
5. A compromise that became a temporary solution to controversies over slavery
6. A state gaining or exerting sovereignty over a piece of land through various means
7. An act that required citizens to assist in the capture of runaway slaves and denied alleged fugitives the right to a jury trial.
8. White people born in the United States and those who were naturalized immigrants
11. States where slavery was legal and practiced
12. The rights and powers held by individual U.S. states rather than by the federal government
14. The United States as a whole
16. A Northern political coalition defined by its opposition to the expansion of slavery and its embrace of policies promoting industrialization and free labor
17. A Supreme Court ruling that stated that anyone of African American descent could not be US citizens
18. The period of intense violent conflict between pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions in the Kansas Territory from 1854 to 1859
19. A period of mass starvation, disease, and emigration caused by a potato blight
20. The acquisition of new territories that allowed for California to be admitted as a free state

1. A central and divisive issue, driven by the South's economic reliance on cash crops and the belief in Manifest Destiny
2. Any laws, regulations, or practices that limited the power of slave owners or the institution of slavery itself
4. An amendment created to prohibit slavery in any territory acquired from Mexico
9. A state of disagreement, conflict, or strain between different political groups or individuals
10. A state where slavery was prohibited
13. The doctrine that the people of a given territory should decide whether or not to allow slavery within their borders, rather than the federal government
15. A member of the British reforming and constitutional party that sought the supremacy of Parliament