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Across
  1. 2. First and only president of the Confederate States of America after the election of President Abraham Lincoln in 1860 led to the secession of many southern states
  2. 4. Democratic candidate for president in 1852 and the 14th president of the United States.
  3. 5. an American politician and pro-slavery nominee for president, he debated against Abraham Lincoln
  4. 6. Sixteenth president of the United states, he opposed slavery and argues that African Americans had a right to "Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness"
  5. 9. a law that made it a crime to help runaway slaves; allowed for the arrest of escaped slaves in areas where slavery was illegal
  6. 13. Senator from Tennessee, he supported the Union over slavery and helped found the Constitutional Union Part.
  7. 14. the dude who beat Charles Sumner with a cane
  8. 15. the dude who got beat by the cane
  9. 16. a political party formed in the 1850s to stop the spread of slavery in the West
  10. 17. a devotion to the interest of one geographic region over the interests of the country as a whole
  11. 18. a proposal to outlaw slavery in the territory added to the United States by the Mexcian Cession
  12. 20. an incident in which abolitionist John Brown and 21 other men captured a federal arsenal in Harpers Ferry, Virginia
Down
  1. 1. a law that allowed voters in Kansas and Nebraska to choose whether to allow slavery.
  2. 3. the nation formed by the southern states when the seceded from the union: also known as the Confederacy
  3. 7. an incident in which abolitionist John Brown and seven other men murdered pro-slavery Kansas
  4. 8. Henery Clays proposed agreement that allowed California to enter the union as a free state and divided the rest of the Mexican Cession into two territories
  5. 10. a statement made by Stephen Douglas during the Lincoln-Douglas debates that pointed out how people could use popular sovereignty to determine if they wanted a free or slave state
  6. 11. a political party formed in 1860 by a group of northerners and southerners who supported the Union, its laws, and the COnstitiution
  7. 12. Enslaved African American who filed suit for his freedom stating that his time living in a free state made him a free man.
  8. 19. a political party formed in 1848 by antislavery northerners who left the Whig and Democratic parties because neither addresses the slavery issue