The Antebellum

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Across
  1. 2. 16th president of America
  2. 4. This legislation marked the beginning of the prolonged sectional conflict over the extension of slavery
  3. 7. December 29, 1845 when a state was allowed into the union of the US
  4. 9. An ideology that held the belief that the United States was destined by God to expand its dominion and spread democracy and capitalism
  5. 10. Principle that the authority of a government is created and sustained by the consent of its people.
Down
  1. 1. An organized network of secret routes and safe houses
  2. 3. An unsuccessful proposal in 1846 to ban slavery in territory acquired by Mexico in the Mexican-American war.
  3. 5. In which multiple states severed ties with their union
  4. 6. A sucessful mutiny staged by 53 kidnapped illegally purchased enslaved African Americans.
  5. 8. This slogan summarized the strategy used by sectionalists in southern states to claim the feasibility of secession