Chapter 13 (Sectional to National Crisis) Crossword

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Across
  1. 1. _____ War. A war from 1861 to 1865 between the United States and 11 Southern states that seceded from the Union and formed the Confederate States of America.
  2. 5. Place where slavery was practiced and fueled by the invention of the cotton gin by Eli Whitney
  3. 8. The response to the bloodiest slave rebellion in U.S. history. When an enslaved preacher named Nat Turner and about sixty other men killed fifty-eight white men, women, and children in Southampton County on August 21, 1831.
  4. 9. A formerly enslaved man who became a leader in the abolitionist movement, which sought to end the practice of slavery, before and during the Civil War (Last Name)
  5. 12. The name applied to abolitionist members of the United States Republican Party before the Civil War (2 words)
  6. 15. The Congressman who submitted his ______ Proviso late in 1846 which banned the expansion of slavery into the territories won from Mexico. (Last Name)
  7. 18. The nickname of the period of violence that broke out immediately between the three sides pro-slavery, Free-Staters, and abolitionists, and continued until 1861 when Kansas entered the Union as a free state on January 29. (2 words)
  8. 20. ____ Party. The party was made up of colonists who supported independence. They opposed Jackson's strong-armed leadership style and policies. They also promoted protective tariffs, federal funding for internal improvements, and other measures that strengthened the central government.
  9. 21. Chief Justice who is best known for his famous Court opinions in Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge and Dred Scott v. Sanford (Last Name)
  10. 23. The 1844 Democratic presidential candidate who wanted to bridge the sectional divide by promising new lands to whites north and south. (Last Name)
  11. 24. The crisis where southern politicians struggled to prevent northern abolitionists from weakening constitutional protections for slavery which ultimately led to the outbreak of the Civil War. (2 words)
  12. 25. Leader of 20 Across. He also represented Kentucky in both the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. He was the seventh House speaker as well as the ninth secretary of state. (Last Name)
  13. 26. The senator from Illinois who is known as “the Little Giant” because his political stature far exceeded his height of five-foot-four and remained a prominent national figure from his first election to the Senate in 1847 until he died in 1861. (Last Name)
  14. 27. _____ v. Pennsylvania Supreme Court case which ruled that the federal government’s Fugitive Slave Act trumped Pennsylvania’s personal liberty law.
Down
  1. 2. 16th president of the US who was president during the Civil War and is famous for freeing the slaves. (Last Name)
  2. 3. The event where a small group on a raid against a federal armory in Harpers Ferry, Virginia tried to start an armed revolt of enslaved people and destroy the institution of slavery. (2 words)
  3. 4. An American female abolitionist and social activist who after escaping slavery made about 13 total missions to rescue around 70 enslaved people, including her family and friends, using the network of antislavery activists and safe houses known collectively as the Underground Railroad. (Last Name)
  4. 6. Ruling that black Americans could not be citizens of the United States and therefore could be transported as animals regardless of state lines (3 words)
  5. 7. 15th president of the United States who served as secretary of state from 1845 to 1849 and represented Pennsylvania in both houses of the U.S. Congress. He was also never married. (Last Name)
  6. 10. Leader of 3 Down. He was a prominent leader in the American abolitionist movement in the years before the Civil War. (Last Name)
  7. 11. The leader of a war from April to August 1832 between the United States and Native Americans. He was a 65-year-old Sauk warrior who in early April led some 1,000 Sauk, Fox, and Kickapoo men, women, and children, including about 500 warriors, across the Mississippi River to reclaim land in Illinois that tribal spokesmen had surrendered to the U.S. in 1804. (2 words)
  8. 13. Antislavery party that was organized in Warsaw, New York in 1939 (2 words)
  9. 14. nickname for northerners that were friendly to the South
  10. 16. Group of people who delivered speeches on their beliefs and attacked fugitive slave laws by helping thousands of slaves escape. Ex. Maria Stewart, Frederick Douglass, James McCune Smith, and Martin Delaney (2 words)
  11. 17. The withdrawal of 11 southern states from the Union in 1860, leading to the Civil War.
  12. 19. The opposing of the practice/system of slavery.
  13. 22. The name of the movement/period that brought about social change of the “common man”.