The Nation Splits Apart

3. war hero and California senator;
6. southern democratic candidate for president in 1860 election
14. supreme court ruling that protected the property rights of people who held slaves
15. president who supported the Compromise in 1850
20. name the southern states gave to the new nation they formed after leaving the union
21. Tennessee senator nominated for president in 1860
22. meeting of people from the northern states and some southern states that tried to find a way to avoid war
23. opposition to immigration
25. law giving popular sovereignty to kansas and nebraska
26. law that made it a federal crime to assist runaway slaves
28. the idea of letting residents decide what laws to be governed by;
30. president from 1852 to 1856;

1. people who were against the spread of slavery
2. fighting marked by sabotage, ambushes and other surprise attacks
3. antislavery leader of the Pottawatomie Massacre
4. senator from Illinois; led the fight to pass the compromise of 1850
5. plan to change the constitution to ban slavery north of the old Missouri compromise line separating free and slave states;
7. political party founded in 1854
8. killing of five pro-slavery Kansas settlers
9. author of Uncle Tom's cabin
10. president of the Confederate States of America
11. nickname given to kansas because there was so much slavery related violence there
12. set of five laws that dealt with slavery issues
13. position put forth by Douglas during a debate with Lincoln;
16. debates that took place in 1858
17. Kansas pro-slavery constitution that was rejected by voters
18. novel about slave life in the south
19. temporary
24. antislavery republican elected to the presidency in 1860
27. president elected in 1856
28. statement of the principles that a group stands for
29. a person with extreme views