American Civil War 5

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Across
  1. 3. Radical abolitionist responsible for the deaths of five pro-slavers in Kansas, 1856 (4,5)
  2. 5. Free Soil Senator who attacked the Kansas-Nebraska Act as a "gross violation of a sacred pledge" (5)
  3. 7. Slave who sued for freedom and whose case reached the Supreme Court in 1857 (4,5)
  4. 8. As the Democrats alone commanded significant support in the North and the South they claimed to be the party of ... (5)
  5. 9. Slave constitution for Kansas (9)
  6. 11. Where John Brown's 1859 uprising took place (7,5)
  7. 14. The saviour of the 1850 Compromise; architect of the Kansas Nebraska Act and advocate of popular sovereignty (7)
  8. 15. Did Douglas support the organisation of Kansas-Nebraska because of his ... interests (8)
  9. 17. Republican Presidential candidate in 1856 (7)
Down
  1. 1. Political party also known as the American Party (4,8)
  2. 2. Bloody confrontation, and precursor of civil war, that was the fall-out of the Kansas-Nebraska Act (8,6)
  3. 4. President who succeeded Pierce in 1856 (8)
  4. 6. Name of the doctrine suggested by Douglas to adopt popular sovereignty in the USA (8)
  5. 10. - The Republicans supported higher ..., this alienated Southerners (7)
  6. 12. American Party Presidential candidate in 1856 (8)
  7. 13. - Sectional splinter group of the Know Nothings who formed in 1856, the ... American Party (5)
  8. 16. Senator beaten senseless by Preston Brookes in 1856 (6)