Unit 6 Vocab Quiz

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Across
  1. 4. Created federal commissioners to pursue slaves and denied African Americans claimed as runaways due process
  2. 8. Proposed amendment that would guarantee slavery below the 36/30 after the secession of the deep south
  3. 9. Political Party who refused to take a stance on slavery and disappeared as a result
  4. 12. Proposed but failed law that would have prevented slavery in the lands acquired from Mexico
  5. 16. Called for the creation of two new territories and the issue of slavery would be decided by popular sovereignty
  6. 17. Submitted by the proslavery leaders in territorial Kansas that put no restrictions on slavery
  7. 18. Abraham Lincoln became president and divided the Democratic Party
  8. 19. Fighting between proslavery and antislavery forces in Kansas
  9. 21. Unified under the principle that slavery should be banned from all nation's territories and not permitted to spread
  10. 22. Slaves and African Americans do not have the right to bring suit and the Missouri Compromise is illegal
  11. 23. Response to Abraham Lincoln's election where southern states voted to separate from the Union
Down
  1. 1. Main political party in the South that supported the spread of slavery
  2. 2. Chief Justice of the Supreme Court who ruled federal laws on slavery to be unconstitutional
  3. 3. Said that slavery was banned above the 36,30 Line
  4. 5. Politician who created the issues in Kansas in an attempt to create a Transcontinental Railroad
  5. 6. Strong abolitionist who carried out the attempted Harpers' Ferry Rebellion
  6. 7. President of the Confederacy
  7. 10. California admitted a free state, the slave trade abolished in D.C, and a new fugitive slave law established
  8. 11. Discussion during Illinois Senate race on Popular Sovereignty vs Prevention the Spread of Slavery
  9. 13. Belief that Americans had God given right to spread democracy beyond our borders
  10. 14. Confederate General who led South to victories in the Civil War
  11. 15. Attempt to purchase Cuba in order to add another slave state
  12. 20. Concept that states do not have to follow a federal law, if it does not benefit the country