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Across
  1. 2. Henry clay's proposed agreement that allowed California to enter the union as a free state and divided the rest of the Mexican Cession into two territories where slavery would be decided by popular sovereignty?
  2. 4. the idea that political authority belongs to the people?
  3. 5. An antislavery novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe that showed northerners the violent reality if slavery and drew many people to the abolitionists' cause?
  4. 8. who won the war?
  5. 12. Confederate efforts to use the importance of southern cotton to Britains textile industry to persuade the British to support the confederacy in the civil war?
  6. 13. a law that made it a crime to help runaway slaves allowed for the arrest of escaped slaves in areas where slavery was illegal and required their return to slaveholders?
  7. 14. A devotion to the interests of one geographic region over the interests of the country as a whole?
  8. 15. A political party formed in 1848 by antislavery northerners who left the Whig and democratic parties because neither addressed the slavery issue?
Down
  1. 1. American author and daughter of Lyman Beecher he was
  2. 3. A federal outpost in Charleston South Carolina that was attacked bu the confederates in April 1861 sparking the civil war?
  3. 6. Enslaved African american he ran away and was arrested in Boston. his arrest became the center of violent protests by northern opponents of the fugitive slave act?
  4. 7. American general he served as a commander in the Mexican war and used a two part strategy against the south in the civil war he wanted to destroy the South's economy with a naval blockade and gain control of the Mississippi river?.
  5. 9. TO formally withdraw from the union?
  6. 10. A proposal to outlaw slavery in the territory added to the united states by the Mexican Cession;passed in the house of representatives but was defeated in the senate?
  7. 11. a slave state that lay between the north and the south and did not join the confederacy during the civil war Delaware Kentucky Maryland and Missouri were border states?