Civil War

3. the highest judicial court in a country or state.
6. Enacted in 1820 to maintain the balance of power in Congress
9. package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress in September 1850 that defused a political confrontation between slave and free states on the status of territories acquired in the Mexican–American War.
11. a person who dies for a cause
12. played a significant role in United States history, even before the state of West Virginia separated from Virginia during the Civil War.
13. Debates with Abraham Lincoln, who defeated him in the presidential race two years later.
14. 16th President.
15. rivalry based on the special intrest of different areas

1. a war between citizens of the same country.
2. cCritical national policy change concerning the expansion of slavery into the territories, affirming the concept of popular sovereignty over congressional edict.
4. harriet beecher wrote this
5. Fought against standford.
7. an American abolitionist leader. First reaching national prominence for his radical abolitionism and fighting in Bleeding Kansas
8. This lady wrote Uncle Tom's cabin.
10. condition in which one human being was owned by another.