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Across
  1. 2. Whig slave holder. military general
  2. 4. a compromise law in 1854 that suspended the Missouri Compromise
  3. 6. Charles Sumner gave a two day speech on the Senate floor. He denounced the South for crimes against Kansas and singled out Senator Andrew Brooks of South Carolina. Brooks beat Sumner over the head with his cane..
  4. 9. Proposal to prohibit slavery in any land acquired in the Mexican War
  5. 10. Lincoln 16th president
  6. 12. killer of Abe Lincoln
  7. 14. The General of the Confederate troops
  8. 15. Laws or "codes" that limited blacks rights
  9. 16. battle with bloodiest day of civil war
  10. 19. notion that the sovereign people of a given territory should decide whether to allow slavery.
  11. 20. return of escaped slaves to their owners.
  12. 21. known for his march to the sea
Down
  1. 1. In 1859, the militant abolitionist John Brown seized the U.S. arsenal at Harper's Ferry.
  2. 3. John Brown and followers murdered 5 pro-slavery settlers in Kansas
  3. 5. winter of 1860-1861, when 7 southern states seceded in rapid succession.
  4. 7. slavery permitted in missouri
  5. 8. Supreme Court decision that stated blacks were not citizens
  6. 11. Plan for civil war which emphasized the blockade of Southern ports
  7. 13. A sequence of violent events involving abolitionists and pro-Slavery elements that took place in Kansas-Nebraska Territory.
  8. 17. An economic crash that arose due to the inflation caused gold
  9. 18. Soil Party was against slavery in the new territories.