Chapter 10

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  1. 1. abolitionist leader.
  2. 6. favoring the interests of native-born people over foreign-born people
  3. 8. was an American politician who served as the president of the Confederate States.
  4. 10. supported the compromise.
  5. 14. a system in which the residents vote to decide an issue.
  6. 15. an amendment of 1846 military appropriations bill, proposing that none of the territory acquired in the war with Mexico would be open to slavery.
  7. 16. Former United States Attorney General
  8. 19. a series of congressional measures intended to settle the major disagreements between free states and slave states.
  9. 22. the formal withdrawal of a state from the union.
  10. 24. was an American newspaper editor and publisher who was the founder of the New-York Tribune
  11. 25. a political party formed in 1848 to oppose the extension of slavery into U.S. territories.
  12. 26. the confederate state of America, a confederation formed in 1861 by the southern states after their secession from the union.
  13. 27. was an explorer of the Western United States
  14. 28. a system of routes along which runaway slaves were helped to escape to Canada or to safe areas in the free states.
  15. 29. 15th president of U.S.
  16. 30. a law that established the territories of Kansas and Nebraska and gave their residents the right to decide whether to allow slavery.
Down
  1. 2. published Uncle Tom’s Cabin
  2. 3. was the 14th president of the united states
  3. 4. 21 men were led to it.
  4. 5. the modern political party that was formed in 1854 by opponents of slavery in the territories.
  5. 7. statutes, passed in nine northern states in the 1850’s, that forbade the imprisonment of runaways slaves and granted jury trails for fugitive slaves.
  6. 9. slave from Missouri
  7. 11. a name given to the American party, formed in 1850’s to curtail the political influence of immigrants
  8. 12. statutes passed by Congress.
  9. 13. the idea, expressed by Stephen Douglas in 1858, that any territory could exclude slavery by simply refusing to pass laws supporting it
  10. 17. picked up the pro-compromise reins.
  11. 18. republican, 16th president of U.S.
  12. 20. A name applied to the Kansas territory in the years before the Civil War, when the territory was a battleground between proslavery and antislavery forces
  13. 21. A best selling novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe.
  14. 23. on of the most famous conductors