Module 17 People

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Across
  1. 3. Candidate nominated for the 1860 election by the Constitutional Union Party
  2. 7. Early leader of the Republican Party who campaigned against Douglas for a Senate seat and the presidency
  3. 8. South Carolina representative who beat a fellow Congressman unconscious with his cane in the Senate chambers
  4. 10. The author of Uncle Tom's Cabin who spoke out against slavery
  5. 12. The president of the Confederate States of America
  6. 13. Democratic candidate and winner of the 1856 presidential election
  7. 14. Democratic candidate who won the presidential election of 1852 by a large margin
  8. 15. Chief Justice of the Supreme Court during the Dred Scott decision
Down
  1. 1. Senator who introduced what would become the Kansas-Nebraska Act and later campaigned against Abraham Lincoln for a seat in the U.S. Senate and the presidency
  2. 2. Pro-slavery candidate nominated by southern Democrats for the 1860 election
  3. 4. Republican candidate for the election of 1856. He was against the spread of slavery.
  4. 5. Kentucky senator who proposed constitutional amendments to satisfy the south and avoid a civil war
  5. 6. A fugitive slave from VA who was arrested in Boston. Northerners were outraged when he was forced to return to VA.
  6. 9. Massachusetts senator who criticized the actions of pro-slavery people in Kansas and pro-slavery leaders
  7. 11. Slave who tried to sue for his freedom because he lived in a free state before returning to Missouri