Chapter 10 vocab

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Across
  1. 6. Abolitionist described as “a man made of the stuff of saints”
  2. 9. Called this because it became a violent Battlefield in a civil war.
  3. 11. Confederate constitutional convention unanimously elected the former senator (Jefferson Davis) as president.
  4. 13. One of the founders of the republican party
  5. 15. Series of congressional measures intended to settle the major disagreements between free states and slave states.
  6. 16. Law enacted as part of the compromise of 1850, designed to ensure that escaped slaves would be returned into bondage
  7. 17. a system in which the residents vote to decide an issue
  8. 18. Democratic candidate, in 1852
  9. 20. Favoring the interests of native-born people over foreign-born people.
  10. 24. The confederate states of America, a confederation formed in 1861 by the southern states after their secession from the union.
  11. 26. Supreme court chief justice, handed the decision of Dred Scott V. Sandford
  12. 27. political party formed in 1848 to oppose the extension of slavery into U.S. territories
  13. 28. Slave from Missouri, lived with his owner north of the Missouri compromise line
  14. 29. 16th president
  15. 30. Name given to the American party, formed in the 1850s to curtain tail the political influence of immigrants
Down
  1. 1. The framed pathfinder who mapped the Oregon trial and led the U.S. troops into California during the war with Mexico
  2. 2. Statuses, passed in nine northern states in the 1850s, that forbade the imprisonment of runaway slaves and guaranteed jury trials for fugitive slaves.
  3. 3. Fillmore The successor of president Taylor, supported the compromise
  4. 4. Law enacted in 1854, that established the territories of Kansas and Nebraska and gave their residents the right to decide whether to allow slavery
  5. 5. system of routes along which runaway slaves were helped to escape to Canada or to safe areas in the free states
  6. 7. Amendment to an 1846 military appropriations bill, proposing that none of the territory acquired in the war with Mexico would be open to slavery.
  7. 8. Nominated by the Democrats
  8. 10. The formal withdrawal of a state from the Union.
  9. 12. Ardent abolitionist, published Uncle Tom’s Cabin
  10. 14. Modern political party that was formed in 1854 by opponents of slavery in the territories
  11. 19. Band of 21 men set out to seize the federal arsenal there
  12. 21. the idea, expressed by Steven Douglas in 1858, that any territory could exclude slavery by simply refusing to pass laws supporting it.
  13. 22. Picked the pro-compromise reins
  14. 23. Best selling novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe, published in 1852, that portrayed slavery as a great moral evil
  15. 25. A famous conductor of the underground railroad