Chapter 10 history

3. Escaped enslaved woman who helped others gain freedom via the Underground Railroad.
5. 14th U.S. president who supported the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
7. Belief in favoring native-born citizens over immigrants.
9. Author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, a powerful anti-slavery novel.
12. Agreement that tried to ease tensions over slavery between North and South.
13. Term referring to the period before the Civil War.
20. Political party that opposed the expansion of slavery into new territories.
24. Presidential race won by Abraham Lincoln, leading to secession.
25. Violent attack on Senator Charles Sumner in the U.S. Senate.
26. Secret network that helped enslaved people escape to freedom.
27. Violent conflict between pro- and anti-slavery groups in Kansas.
28. Anti-immigrant, anti-Catholic political group from the 1850s.

1. Northern laws designed to counter the Fugitive Slave Act.
2. Supreme Court decision that ruled enslaved people were not citizens.
4. Famous novel that exposed the cruelty of slavery.
6. Allowed settlers to vote on slavery in new territories.
8. The act of Southern states leaving the Union before the Civil War.
10. Political party founded in 1854 to oppose the spread of slavery.
11. President of the Confederate States during the Civil War.
14. Site of John Brown’s failed raid to start a slave rebellion.
15. Senator who debated Lincoln and supported popular sovereignty.
16. Idea that people in a territory should decide whether to allow slavery.
17. 15th U.S. president, whose inaction failed to stop secession.
18. Abolitionist who led violent anti-slavery raids.
19. First Republican candidate for president in 1856.
21. 16th U.S. president who led the country during the Civil War.
22. Law that required escaped enslaved people to be returned to their owners.
23. The government formed by Southern states that seceded from the Union.