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- 1. abolitionist leader.
- 6. favoring the interests of native-born people over foreign-born people
- 8. was an American politician who served as the president of the Confederate States.
- 10. supported the compromise.
- 14. a system in which the residents vote to decide an issue.
- 15. an amendment of 1846 military appropriations bill, proposing that none of the territory acquired in the war with Mexico would be open to slavery.
- 16. Former United States Attorney General
- 19. a series of congressional measures intended to settle the major disagreements between free states and slave states.
- 22. the formal withdrawal of a state from the union.
- 24. was an American newspaper editor and publisher who was the founder of the New-York Tribune
- 25. a political party formed in 1848 to oppose the extension of slavery into U.S. territories.
- 26. the confederate state of America, a confederation formed in 1861 by the southern states after their secession from the union.
- 27. was an explorer of the Western United States
- 28. a system of routes along which runaway slaves were helped to escape to Canada or to safe areas in the free states.
- 29. 15th president of U.S.
- 30. a law that established the territories of Kansas and Nebraska and gave their residents the right to decide whether to allow slavery.
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- 2. published Uncle Tom’s Cabin
- 3. was the 14th president of the united states
- 4. 21 men were led to it.
- 5. the modern political party that was formed in 1854 by opponents of slavery in the territories.
- 7. statutes, passed in nine northern states in the 1850’s, that forbade the imprisonment of runaways slaves and granted jury trails for fugitive slaves.
- 9. slave from Missouri
- 11. a name given to the American party, formed in 1850’s to curtail the political influence of immigrants
- 12. statutes passed by Congress.
- 13. the idea, expressed by Stephen Douglas in 1858, that any territory could exclude slavery by simply refusing to pass laws supporting it
- 17. picked up the pro-compromise reins.
- 18. republican, 16th president of U.S.
- 20. A name applied to the Kansas territory in the years before the Civil War, when the territory was a battleground between proslavery and antislavery forces
- 21. A best selling novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe.
- 23. on of the most famous conductors