A Divided Nation

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Across
  1. 4. Abolitionist who believed he was sent by God to end slavery
  2. 7. Chief Justice of the Supreme Court in 1857
  3. 8. Month which Abe finally took office in 1861
  4. 11. President of the Confederate States of America
  5. 12. A Virginia fugitive slave arrested in Boston
  6. 13. A former slave who sued for his freedom
  7. 14. A new political party united against the spread of slavery
  8. 15. Territory above Kansas
  9. 16. laws making it a crime to help runaway slaves
  10. 18. Site of John Browns final attack
  11. 19. Introduced the Compromise of 1850
  12. 21. To withdraw from the union
  13. 22. Antislavery Northerners formed this party
  14. 23. favoring the interests of a region
  15. 25. Where Harriet Beecher Stowe moved to when she was 21
  16. 27. Site of a massacre involving John Brown
  17. 28. Political party of Pierce
  18. 29. In 1858, Abe gave a speech where he spoke of this being "divided", saying it could not stand
Down
  1. 1. President in 1852
  2. 2. President before Abe
  3. 3. Victim of a violent attack by Senator Preston Brooks
  4. 5. The 31st State
  5. 6. This act allowed the people of a territory to decide the issue of slavery
  6. 9. Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin
  7. 10. Number of candidates in the Presidential Election of 1860
  8. 17. Month which John Brown was executed
  9. 20. Abe's opponent in the U.S. Senate race in 1858
  10. 24. A document stating neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall exist in any part of the territory
  11. 26. First state to secede