Unit 5 Crossword Choice B
Across
- 4. 11th U.S. president who ran a campaign of expanding the USA from Sea to shining sea
- 5. one of America's greatest heroes due to his role as savior of the Union and emancipator of enslaved people
- 7. This Election demonstrated the divisions within the United States just before the Civil War.
- 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
- 10. five separate bills passed by the United States Congress in September 1850 that defused a political confrontation between slave and free states
- 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
- 12. an attempt to start an armed revolt of enslaved people and destroy the institution of slavery.
- 14. Named after the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, was designed to eliminate slavery within the land acquired as a result of the Mexican War
- 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
- 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. Texas votes in favor of becoming part of USA and joins the Union as a slave state.
- 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. the 19th-century belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable.
- 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.
- 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
- 13. Former slave who moved into Illinoise and Wisconsin (two free states) files a lawsuit