Civil War
Across
- 2. who led an attack on Pottawatomie Creek to retaliate for the attack on Lawrence
- 5. main points of Clay's original plan
- 7. Who did the American party nominate in the presidential election of 1856
- 10. a young senator from Illinois that finally resolved the crisis
- 11. The main topic of the seven debates between Lincoln and Douglas
- 13. What did Uncle Tom's Cabin show about slavery
- 14. What name was given to the laws passes in Congress that contained the
- 16. African Americans and Whites who opposed slavery set up to help runaways escape
- 20. Annexation of Texas
- 21. Who said "A house divided against itself cannot stand"
Down
- 1. Who did the Republican party nominate in the presidential election of 1856
- 3. Proposal that specified that slavery should be prohibited in any lands acquired from Mexico in the Mexican War
- 4. African America that sued for his freedom in 1846
- 6. Who did the Democratic party nominate in the presidential election of 1856
- 8. Clays Proposal
- 9. What did Douglas call letting settlers in a territory vote on whether to allow slavery
- 12. When did Congress pass the Kansas-Nebraska Act
- 15. The attitude that grew out the differences between the North and the South
- 17. New Party that was formed in 1848 when neither presidential candidate would take a stand on slavery
- 18. Proposes that neither Congress nor a territorial government had the authority to ban slavery
- 19. Wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin