Civil War Crossword

4. Antislavery protesters that took a stand against slavery
5. The event in which John Brown and his men raided an arsenal in Harper's Ferry, then killed numerous people.
7. Restriction of interest to a narrow sphere.
9. The issue of slavery in these new states would be decided by popular sovereignty.
11. The principle that the authority of a state and it's government is created and sustained by the consent of its people.
14. Since Scott wasn't a citizen the ruling was to allow slavery throughout the territory.
15. She was a slave that helped others escape to the Underground Railroad.
16. The period before the civil war and after the War of 1812.

1. A package of five separate bills passed by U.S. Congress to defuse a four-year political confrontation between free and slave states.
2. Laws passed by the U.S. Congress in 1793 and 1850 to provide for the return of slaves, who escaped from one state into another territory.
3. He spoke out against slavery and published the "North Star" magazine.
6. the last quadrennial presidential election. It served as the immediate impetus for the outbreak of the American Civil War.
8. Withdraw formally from membership in a federal union, alliance, or a political or religious organization.
10. The pathway that led slaves North or Canada.
12. An effort by Congress to defuse the sectional and political rivalries at the request of Missouri late in 1819 for admission as a state in which slavery would be permitted.
13. She was known for writing "Uncle Tom's Cabin" that sold millions of copies for speaking against slavery.