Chapter 10 - TL

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Across
  1. 5. A system of secret routes used by escaping slaves to reach freedom in the North or Canada.
  2. 6. United States slave who sued for liberty after living in a non-slave state.
  3. 10. Successor of Zachary Taylor, and signs into law many compromises.
  4. 11. Chief Justice of the Supreme Court when Dred Scott decision was made.
  5. 12. Wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
  6. 17. The southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861.
  7. 18. Stephen Douglas’s belief in popular sovereignty, stated during the Freeport debate.
  8. 19. Book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe that spoke out against slavery.
  9. 23. Laws passed by Northern states forbidding the imprisonment of slaves.
  10. 25. Political party formed in 1854, Its main goal was to stop the spread of slavery.
  11. 26. Explorer/adventurer who led the overthrow of Mexican rule in California after war broke out, ran for president 1856.
  12. 28. President of the Union who was against slavery.
  13. 29. 1846 proposal that outlawed slavery in any territory gained from the War with Mexico.
  14. 30. A law that allowed voters in Kansas and Nebraska to choose whether to allow slavery.
Down
  1. 1. Political party of the 1850s that was anti-Catholic and anti-immigrant.
  2. 2. A founder of the Republican Party, Abolitionist.
  3. 3. Law that provided for harsh treatment for escaped slaves and those who helped them.
  4. 4. Abolitionist who was hanged after leading an unsuccessful raid at Harper’s Ferry, Virginia.
  5. 7. President of the Confederate States of America.
  6. 8. Term referring to bloodshed over population sovereignty in a particular western territory.
  7. 9. A policy favoring native-born individuals over foreign-born ones.
  8. 13. A government in which the people rule by their own consent.
  9. 14. Illinois politician who helped smooth over sectional conflict in 1850 but then reignited it in 1854.
  10. 15. Agreement designed to ease tensions caused by the expansion of slavery into western territories.
  11. 16. Formal withdrawal of states or regions from a nation.
  12. 20. Former slave who helped slaves escape on the Underground Railroad.
  13. 21. A political party formed in 1848 to oppose the extension of slavery into U.S. territories.
  14. 22. President who supported the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
  15. 24. Ran for the Democrat Party in the Election of 1856-won, endorses proslavery Constitution.
  16. 27. Location of federal arsenal that John Brown raided to get guns to arm slaves.