American Civil War 5

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