Sectionalism and the Road to the Civil War

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Across
  1. 4. Conductor on the Underground Railroad.
  2. 6. Loyalty to a region rather than the whole country.
  3. 9. Admitted California as a free state, made a stronger fugitive slave act, and abolished the slave trade in D.C.
  4. 11. The admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
  5. 13. This is a political movement that supported the superiority of native born citizens to America.
  6. 14. One othe most famous abolitionists that led the rebellion at Harper's Ferry.
  7. 15. Led a successful slave rebellion in Virginia and resulted in more severe treatment of slave.
  8. 16. wrote the novel, "Uncle Tom’s Cabin" which personified slavery
Down
  1. 1. This man is remembered as the "Great Compromiser".
  2. 2. This senator made a speech "Crimes Against Kansas" which criticized the Kansas-Nebraska Act and was caned by Preston Brooks.
  3. 3. The Kansas-Nebraska Act is best known for this policy of __________ __________; which allowed the people to vote on slavery.
  4. 5. This is the term used to describe the formal, voluntary withdrawal of the southern states from the United States.
  5. 7. This was a Supreme Court case that ruled that enslaved people were property, not citizens, and could not sue in federal court
  6. 8. Someone against slavery.
  7. 10. mandated that all escaped enslaved people be returned to their masters, even if found in free states
  8. 12. This was the slave ship that was taken over by the slaves aboard the ship and the Supreme Court ruled in their favor.