American History Chapter 11

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Across
  1. 2. Won the race for Senate in 1858
  2. 5. His capture and return to slavery prompted William Lloyd Garrison to burn copies of the Fugitive Slave Act and the Constitution
  3. 10. Author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin
  4. 11. Samuel Prime wrote The Power of Prayer about the “Businessmen’s Revival” in 1857-1858 in which he acknowledged the connection between the revival and the ____________ troubles
  5. 14. this controversial principle said that individual US territories should decide for themselves whether to allow slavery
  6. 15. Abraham Lincoln spoke against this man’s Kansas-Nebraska plan in a 1854 speech in Peoria, Illinois
  7. 16. in the mid-1850s this new political party emerged as a northern-only party and was committed to the restriction of slavery to those states where it already existed
  8. 17. The Know Nothing American Party nominated this former US president as their candidate in 1856
  9. 18. The New England Emigrant Aid Company placed as many of these farmers in Kansas as possible to fight for the vote to admit Kansas into the Union as a free state
  10. 19. Other names for this political organization included Order of the Star-Spangled Banner and American Party
  11. 20. This law repealed the Missouri Compromise and damaged the national unity of the Democrats
Down
  1. 1. This man from Pennsylvania won the 1856 election for the US presidency
  2. 3. This senator was brutally attacked at his desk after delivering his “Crime against Kansas” oration
  3. 4. this territory was admitted into the Union as a free state in 1861
  4. 6. This Senator from South Carolina gave a speech in 1858 entitled “Cotton is King”
  5. 7. Crushed his competition in the Electoral College in the election of 1852
  6. 8. Members of the American Party vowed never to support foreign-born or __________ candidates
  7. 9. these debates became the most celebrated political debates in American history
  8. 12. Visited Liberia, learned about Islam, and wrote the book entitled “Christianity, Islam, and the Negro Race
  9. 13. Lincoln delivered this speech when he accepted the Republican nomination for Senate in 1858
  10. 21. Supreme Court Justice Roger Taney used the case of Dred Scott v. Sandford to assert limitations of Congress over this