Leading up to the Civil War Crossword
Across
- 1. Insisted African Americans receive not just freedom but full equality with whites.
- 3. President who made Texas a state.
- 5. A series of violent civil confrontations in Kansas Territory over voting for slavery laws.
- 7. Wrote the liberator.
- 9. A person who wants to end slavery
- 10. Compromise of 1850 banned the slave trade in this city.
- 11. A slave who sued for his freedom
- 12. An act that became stronger in the Compromise of 1850
- 14. An act where California became a free state, and the Utah and New Mexico territories became open to slavery.
- 15. Prominent leader in the American Abolitionist movement who fought in Bleeding Kansas
- 17. Got their inheritance early and used it to free their family's slaves.
- 18. All states above a certain line are free states and below are free states
- 19. Texas became a slave state
- 20. Proposed the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850.
Down
- 2. Act where Missouri Compromise Line was repealed
- 4. Published her life story of the hardships of an escaped slave
- 6. Written by Henry David Theroeau, urges citizens to break unjust laws.
- 8. Senator who proposed that states should decide if they allow slaves or not.
- 13. House burned down and killed
- 16. Originally went by the name of Isabella Baumfree