Proffitt - Bleeding Kansas Crossword Scramble

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Across
  1. 3. Violently caned another senator over the head in retaliation for an anti-slavery speech.
  2. 5. The _____ Compromise resulted in the banning of slavery north of the 36th parallel, keeping the free states-slave states 11-11.
  3. 7. The site of John Brown's raid in Virginia.
  4. 11. Many free-staters and proslavery _____-Ruffians poured into Kansas to try to sway the decision of Kansas becoming a free state or not.
  5. 13. Is the following quote by Frances Watkins in support or against John Brown?
  6. 14. The Battle of _____ ensued after John Brown’s son, Frederick, was spotted in town and killed by those seeking retaliation for the Pottawatomie Massacre.
  7. 15. Harper’s Ferry was strategically chosen for John Brown’s attack because of the federal _____ there.
  8. 17. The policy of allowing residents of a state or territory to decide on slavery.
  9. 19. The main reason that historians and strategists give that John Brown’s attack on Harper’s Ferry failed was that they just didn’t have the _____.
  10. 21. “______” started after the passing of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, as the issue of slavery in the Kansas Territory would be decided by popular sovereignty.
  11. 22. John Brown led this massacre in retaliation for the caning of Sumner and the Sack of Lawrence.
  12. 23. In 1800, John Brown was born in the semi-free state of _____ to a father who hated slavery and that it was a sin against God.
  13. 24. Federal law that made it illegal to help escaped slaves -- part of the Compromise of 1850.
  14. 25. Abolitionist who had planned on helping John Brown recruit for the raid on Harper’s Ferry, but was bedridden during the attack.
Down
  1. 1. As a practice run of Harper’s Ferry, John Brown killed a slave owner in _____ while helping 11 slaves escape to Canada.
  2. 2. Controversial art installation that hangs in the Kansas Capitol.
  3. 4. The following map showcases the result of the _____ Act of 1854.
  4. 6. Supreme Court case that denied citizenship to enslaved people.
  5. 8. The following map is a result of the Compromise of _____.
  6. 9. Resulted when proslavery Sheriff Jones and Missourians raided this largely free-state town and burned down 2 antislavery newspapers (and other businesses).
  7. 10. Frederick Douglass is an example of an _____, or someone who fights to end slavery.
  8. 12. The goal of the raid of Harper’s Ferry was to secure arms and ammunition for escaped slaves to start a _____.
  9. 16. In 1859, a Virginia jury found John Brown guilty of murder, _____, and inciting a slave insurrection.
  10. 18. The noel that powerfully depicted the horrors of slavery and helped abolitionists gain more people for their cause.
  11. 20. The 36th parallel went right through ______, who wanted to enter as a free state, complicating the Missouri Compromise of 1820.