8-4.3: Secession

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Across
  1. 5. slavery was prohibited here
  2. 7. campaigned on a platform of ‘free soil’
  3. 8. the idea that slavery should not be allowed to expand to the territories
  4. 9. These states were given the choice on whether they wanted slavery or not
  5. 10. the action of withdrawing formally from membership of a federation or body, especially a political state
  6. 12. slavery was legal here
  7. 14. did allow California to enter the Union as a free state, created two new large territories-Utah and New Mexico, states were given the choice on whether they wanted slavery or not, and stopped the slave trade in Washington, DC
Down
  1. 1. veto any federal law and even secede from the Union
  2. 2. This kept the balance of free and slave states equal
  3. 3. This doubled the size of the United States
  4. 4. This required Northerners by law to return any runaway slaves to the Southern owners and escaped slave had to be returned or violators might be fined or imprisoned
  5. 6. led a raid on the federal arsenal at Harper’s Ferry in Virginia
  6. 11. basically threw out the Missouri Compromise
  7. 13. a slave that sued for his freedom