Chapter 19 Crossword - Angelica Mazumder

2. A law requiring escaped slaves to be returned, even if found in free states.
3. Site of John Brown's raid to incite a slave rebellion.
7. A preacher who supported antislavery settlers by providing weapons.
10. A principle allowing settlers to decide on slavery in their territory, leading to conflict.
13. The act of formally withdrawing, as Southern states did before the Civil War.
14. A package of laws balancing the interests of slave and free states.
15. A political party formed in the 1850s to oppose the spread of slavery into territories.
17. An 1857 Supreme Court ruling that African Americans were not U.S. citizens.
18. A novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe that exposed slavery’s cruelties.
19. Regions under U.S. government control where slavery debates were fierce.
20. Something or someone that stirs up conflict or rebellion, often tied to slavery debates.

1. Rifles used by antislavery settlers in Kansas, named after Reverend Henry Ward Beecher.
4. Violent confrontations between proslavery and antislavery factions in Kansas Territory.
5. An abolitionist known for the Pottawatomie Massacre and the raid on Harpers Ferry.
6. A rejected proslavery constitution proposed in Kansas.
8. A person who advocated for the immediate end of slavery in the United States.
9. People who opposed the expansion of slavery into western U.S. territories.
11. A system of thought rejecting religious considerations in moral and social debates.
12. A violent event where John Brown and his men killed proslavery settlers.
16. An 1854 law allowing territories to decide on slavery via popular sovereignty.