Across
- 3. A controversial election which caused southern states to secede.
- 4. The first republican to become president.
- 7. South Carolina nullified a federal tariff that favored Northern manufacturing over Southern agriculture.
- 9. A state that didn't support slavery.
- 10. Required all escaped slaves to be captured and returned to their owner.
- 16. A slave revolts in Virginia in 1831, resulted in 55-65 deaths.
- 17. Part of the U.S. that supported slavery.
- 18. Someone who believes the act of slavery is unjust.
- 19. A state that continued to use slaves.
- 21. A set of five bills that temporarily calmed tensions between slave and non-slave states.
Down
- 1. Considered a hero to many of the slaves she helped.
- 2. Southern states wanted control of their own laws.
- 5. Admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a non-slave state.
- 6. Fought between proslavery and antislavery advocates for control of the new territory Kansas.
- 8. An escape route led by Harriet Tubman.
- 11. Ruled that enslaved people were not citizens of the U.S. and the federal government cannot protect them.
- 12. The act of using a person as a workforce without consent.
- 13. States had the right to enforce and pass their own laws.
- 14. Repealed the Missouri compromise and allowed for popular sovereignty.
- 15. Part of the U.S. that did not support slavery.
- 20. Taxes on imports.