Road to Civil War

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Across
  1. 3. One of the Great Compromisers from Kentucky
  2. 7. wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin in the 1850s and made Queen Victoria cry
  3. 9. made slavery profitable
  4. 11. passed in 1820 kept the balance of power in the senate among the states
  5. 12. Invented the Cotton gin
  6. 14. Another one of the Great Compromisers from Massachusetts
  7. 16. southerners referred to slavery as
  8. 18. Idea that new territories would decide the status of Slavery
  9. 19. Force anyone north or south to assist in the return of runaway slaves
  10. 20. Was seen as a rising star in the Republican party by 1858
  11. 21. where many slaves ran to on the underground railroad
  12. 22. Great compromise and fire-eater from South Carolina
  13. 23. This was a trade route for slaves in colonial America
  14. 25. In Chief justice Taney's ruling he stated Black men had no rights slave or free
Down
  1. 1. slave that was a conductor on the underground railroad
  2. 2. Supreme Court case ruled the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional
  3. 4. person opposed to slavery
  4. 5. was an escape route north for runaway slaves
  5. 6. led a failed slave revolt at Harpers Ferry Virginia
  6. 8. He debated Lincoln in 1858 on the issue of popular sovereignty
  7. 10. person who openly favored succession by the 1850s
  8. 13. Was King in the south by the 1850s
  9. 15. the 1850s this territory exploded into guerilla warfare over popular Sovereignty
  10. 17. Ruled the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional in the mid-1850s
  11. 24. challenged his freedom all the way to the Supreme Court but lost in the end