American Civil War 5

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