Compromise Review

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Across
  1. 1. the idea that a state didn't have to listen to federal rules (particularly tariffs)
  2. 5. the government wanted to create a __________ of power between slave and free states
  3. 8. the nickname given to the Kansas-Nebraska act when violence broke out
  4. 9. the idea that a state could decide on big issues themselves, southern states feared this would be taken away
  5. 10. depended on manufacturing/factories
  6. 12. the slave who sued for his freedom just to be told that slaves were not citizen and slaves everywhere
  7. 14. the direction cotton expanded
  8. 17. the idea that a state could vote on if they would allow slavery or not
  9. 18. 5 parts that included the fugitive slave act, california being free, and two states getting popular sovereignty
  10. 21. state that did not allow slavery
  11. 23. the _______________ purchase we got from the French
  12. 24. state that allowed slavery
Down
  1. 2. what happened to slavery after the invention of the cotton gin
  2. 3. the big issue dividing the nation in the antebellum period
  3. 4. the idea that the United States had the right to expand west
  4. 6. the new cash crop in the South
  5. 7. last name of the person who won the election of 1860
  6. 11. before the war
  7. 13. depended on slavery/agriculture
  8. 15. the land that asked to be a part of the United States
  9. 16. a tax on imports
  10. 19. the compromise that created a line where above the line did not allow slavery and below the line did allow slavery, missouri a slave state, and maine a free state
  11. 20. the controversial act that required people to return runaway slaves
  12. 22. the division of the United States into regions based on economy and ideas