Road to Civil War

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