Topic 6 A & B Vocab Matrix

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Across
  1. 3. An agreement, proposed in 1819 by Henry Clay, to keep the number of slave and free states equal
  2. 6. A person who dies for his or her belief.
  3. 8. A political party est. in the US in 1854 with the goal of keeping slavery out of the western territories.
  4. 9. A law that requires people of a certain age to enlist in the military.
  5. 10. An 1854 la that established the territories of Nebraska and Kansas, giving the settlers of each territory the right of popular sovereignty to decide on the issue of slavery.
Down
  1. 1. An agreement over slavery by which California joined the union as a free state and a strict figurative slave law was passed.
  2. 2. The bipartisan antislavery party founded in the United States in 1848 to keep slavery out of the western friends.
  3. 4. An ironclad warship used by the Confederates in an attempt to break the Union blockade.
  4. 5. Proslavery bands from Missouri who often battle antislavery forces in Kansas.
  5. 7. A Northerner who opposed using force to keep the southern states in the Union.