Across
- 3. What the Compromise of 1850 became to the controversies over slavery
- 5. A compromise that became a temporary solution to controversies over slavery
- 6. A state gaining or exerting sovereignty over a piece of land through various means
- 7. An act that required citizens to assist in the capture of runaway slaves and denied alleged fugitives the right to a jury trial.
- 8. White people born in the United States and those who were naturalized immigrants
- 11. States where slavery was legal and practiced
- 12. The rights and powers held by individual U.S. states rather than by the federal government
- 14. The United States as a whole
- 16. A Northern political coalition defined by its opposition to the expansion of slavery and its embrace of policies promoting industrialization and free labor
- 17. A Supreme Court ruling that stated that anyone of African American descent could not be US citizens
- 18. The period of intense violent conflict between pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions in the Kansas Territory from 1854 to 1859
- 19. A period of mass starvation, disease, and emigration caused by a potato blight
- 20. The acquisition of new territories that allowed for California to be admitted as a free state
Down
- 1. A central and divisive issue, driven by the South's economic reliance on cash crops and the belief in Manifest Destiny
- 2. Any laws, regulations, or practices that limited the power of slave owners or the institution of slavery itself
- 4. An amendment created to prohibit slavery in any territory acquired from Mexico
- 9. A state of disagreement, conflict, or strain between different political groups or individuals
- 10. A state where slavery was prohibited
- 13. The doctrine that the people of a given territory should decide whether or not to allow slavery within their borders, rather than the federal government
- 15. A member of the British reforming and constitutional party that sought the supremacy of Parliament