Dividing Nation Review

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Across
  1. 1. nickname for pro-slavery settlers who tried to sway the vote in Kansas
  2. 4. last name of the Pottawatomie Creek "massacre" leader
  3. 5. an enslaved person who had run away was considered to be this
  4. 7. Lincoln said he would allow this to stay where it was, but wouldn't allow it to spread further
  5. 8. what Stephen Douglas wanted to run through Illinois and the new territories
  6. 10. last name of Uncle Tom's creator
  7. 11. he name of the fort where Confederates fired on federal troops, starting the Civil War
  8. 14. Sojourner's refrain
  9. 15. he proposed several compromises
  10. 17. the violent nickname of Kansas in the mid 1850s
  11. 18. to leave formally, especially from a nation
  12. 21. A ___ divided against itself cannot stand
  13. 22. Lincoln's first national political campaign was for this office
  14. 24. Virginia present day state of Harpers Ferry
  15. 26. the first state to secede
  16. 27. last name of the Marine who led the federal government response to John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry
Down
  1. 2. the total number of states that eventually formed the Confederacy
  2. 3. the Dred Scott decision is maybe the most ________ decision in the history of SCOTUS
  3. 5. what Dred Scott sued for
  4. 6. people in the North complained the Compromise of 1850 made "_________" of us all
  5. 9. Douglass's primary complaint about the U.S. in his 4th of July speech
  6. 12. the party of Lincoln
  7. 13. the free state admitted to the Union in 1820
  8. 16. the month of Nat Turner's rebellion in 1831
  9. 19. one of the free states where Dred Scott traveled with his owner
  10. 20. number of southern states that didn't have Lincoln on the ballot in 1860
  11. 23. the type of sovereignty that allows people of a place to decide on matters
  12. 25. the slave _____ was outlawed in Washington, DC as of 1850