Civil War Review

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Across
  1. 3. under the concept of popular sovereignty, this act that gave Kansas and Nebraska the right to self-determine whether they would enter the union as a slave state or a free state
  2. 5. the belief that the expansion of the US was both justified and inevitable which led to the mass killing of indigenous populations & the eventual claiming of all modern day America
  3. 7. Supreme Court decision that said,“a negro, whose ancestors were imported into [the U.S.], and sold as slaves,” whether enslaved or free, could not be an American citizen and therefore did not have standing to sue in federal court.
  4. 8. The compromise in the Constitution that allowed southern states to count their enslaved people as ⅗ of a person for the purposes of population for Congress
  5. 9. a person who favors the abolition of the institution of slavery.
  6. 10. the ability of new territories to determine if slavery should be allowed through referendum.
  7. 11. in an effort to maintain the delicate balance of power between slave states and free states, Maine was admitted to the Union as a free state and Missouri was admitted as a slave state
  8. 13. These laws made concessions to both free and slave states in an attempt to placate both sides of the slavery debate and preserve the union. The south gained by the strengthening of the fugitive slave law, the north gained a new free state, California. Texas lost territory but was compensated with 10 million dollars to pay for its debt. Slave trade was prohibited in Washington DC, but slavery was not.
Down
  1. 1. a conglomeration of southern states that committed treason and rebelled against the US in an effort to retain the practices of slavery.
  2. 2. a series of violent civil conflicts between pioneers in Kansas over the issue of whether Kansas would be a slave state or a free state
  3. 4. undue concern with local interests or petty distinctions at the expense of general well-being.
  4. 6. The act of taking a state out of the Union of the United States of America.
  5. 12. a Collection of 20 free states and 4 border slave states that remained loyal to the national government after the onset of the Civil War.