Chapter 15 Terms Crossword Puzzle

Across

4. state :free states and slave states share borders.
5. the period before civil war
11. idea of voiding and not following national laws
14. loyalty given to particulate region in the belief that their ideas must be protected from other regions
16. setting a fire
19. farm centered
20. state:allowed slavery
21. state:did not allow slavery

Down

1. railroad :a series of houses, river crossings, roads and people that helped the slaves escape to the north
2. of 1850:legislation passed by congress by which cali entered the union as a free state slave trading was ended in the district of columbia texas gave up its claim to new mexico and utah would determine whether they wanted slavery and a stronger fugitive slave act was enacted
3. one who wants to do away with something particularly slavery in the 1800s
6. :to add on such as adding territory to an existing town city or state
7. an older slave owner thought was loyal and watched other slaves
8. city centered
9. sovereignty: the ability of the people of an area to decide upon an issue such as whether they would allow slavery
10. rights: the belief that all powers not specifically given to the national government in the U.S. constitution or specifically denied to the states remain with the states
12. compromise;legislation passed congress in 1820 by which maine entered the union
13. platform: a document issues by a state convention in 1850 that accepted the compromise of 1850 but agreed to resist if the north didn't live up to its obligation or if it hindered slavery
15. nebraska act:1854 legislation that created the territories of kansas and nebraska and contained a clause on popular sovereignty that negated the compromise of 1850
17. soil:the idea that slavery should not be interfered with where it already existed and that the national government had the right to keep it from spreading into new territories
18. destiny:the belief that the U.S. was denied to expand from the atlantic to the pacific ocean