Unit 5 Crossword Choice B

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Across
  1. 4. 11th U.S. president who ran a campaign of expanding the USA from Sea to shining sea
  2. 5. one of America's greatest heroes due to his role as savior of the Union and emancipator of enslaved people
  3. 7. This Election demonstrated the divisions within the United States just before the Civil War.
  4. 8. period of repeated outbreaks of violent warfare between pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces following the creation of the new territory of Kansas in 1854
  5. 10. five separate bills passed by the United States Congress in September 1850 that defused a political confrontation between slave and free states
  6. 11. series of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln, the Republican Party candidate for the United States Senate from Illinois, and Senator Stephen Douglas, the Democratic Party candidae
  7. 12. an attempt to start an armed revolt of enslaved people and destroy the institution of slavery.
  8. 14. Named after the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, was designed to eliminate slavery within the land acquired as a result of the Mexican War
  9. 15. an organized incorporated territory of the United States, when the southwestern portion of the territory was admitted to the Union as the State of Oregon
  10. 16. A United States federal legislation that stopped northern attempts to forever prohibit slavery's expansion by admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state
Down
  1. 1. Texas votes in favor of becoming part of USA and joins the Union as a slave state.
  2. 2. brought an official end to the Mexican-American War and brought peace between Limits and Settlement between the United States of America and the Mexican Republic
  3. 3. the 19th-century belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable.
  4. 6. An act repealing the Missouri Compromise, created two new territories, and allowed for popular sovereignty. It also produced a violent uprising known as “Bleeding Kansas,” as proslavery and antislavery activists flooded into the territories to sway the vote.
  5. 9. the principle that the authority of a state and its government are created and sustained by the consent of its people, through their elected representatives, who are the source of all political power
  6. 13. Former slave who moved into Illinoise and Wisconsin (two free states) files a lawsuit