Chapter 10 10th The Union in Peril

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Across
  1. 4. series of measures that were meant to settle the disagreements between free states and slave states
  2. 6. location of federal arsenal that John Brown raided to get guns to arm slaves
  3. 9. formed in 1861 by the Southern states that seceded from the Union
  4. 11. 13th president
  5. 14. law that split Nebraska into the territories of Nebraska and Kansas and allowed for popular sovereignty
  6. 16. idea that any territory could ban slavery by simply refusing to pass laws supporting it
  7. 18. president of the Confederacy
  8. 20. antislavery novel
  9. 21. formed to opposed extending slavery in the territories
  10. 22. newspaper editor supporting the Republican party
  11. 23. laws passed by Northern states forbidding the imprisonment of escaped slaves
  12. 25. formed to stop the influence of immigrants
  13. 26. senator who worked to pass the Compromise of 1850
  14. 27. secret network of people who hid fugitive slaves who went north to freedom
Down
  1. 1. bill that would ban slavery in the territories acquired after the War with Mexico
  2. 2. idea that people living in a territory should make their own decisions to allow slavery
  3. 3. nickname given to the Kansas Territory because of the bloody violence
  4. 5. slave who was briefly taken by his owner into free territory
  5. 7. famous "conductor" on the Underground Railroad
  6. 8. Chief Justice who ruled in the Dred Scott case
  7. 10. decision by a state to leave the Union
  8. 12. formed to opposed extending slavery in the territories
  9. 13. wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin
  10. 15. president during the Civil War
  11. 17. favoring native born people over immigrants
  12. 19. law that provided for harsh treatment for escaped slaves and for those who helped them
  13. 24. opponent of slavery who led a raid that killed five proslavery people