Across
- 1. to make something invalid or no longer legal and binding
- 3. a tax that is placed on goods brought into one country from another
- 5. known as the “Great Compromiser,” argued for the American System as Speaker of the House; one of the authors of the Compromise of 1850
- 8. Congress accepted Missouri as a slave state; Maine was admitted as a free state; Congress drew a boundary across the remainder of the Louisiana Purchase, determining the free areas north and the slave regions to the south
- 12. the US Supreme Court Justice during North Carolina v. Mann
- 13. a violent northerner who opposed slavery; led a raid at Harper’s Ferry in the hopes of starting a large scale slave revolt; captured and sentenced to death
- 14. someone who suffers, or even dies, for their beliefs
- 15. an enslaved man and preacher who led one of the most significant and deadly revolts against slavery in Virginia; was later captured and executed
- 16. a good or service brought into one country from another
- 17. the expression of formal disapproval
- 19. Republican candidate for Illinois Senate seat in 1858; participated in public debates with Stephen A. Douglas; lost the election but gained national recognition
- 20. a system of government in which power is shared between the central and smaller regional or state governments
- 21. allowed people “held to service or labor” to be returned to the place from which they escaped
- 23. Democrat candidate for Illinois Senate seat in 1858; participated in public debates with Abraham Lincoln; won the election of 1858
- 24. the act passed by Congress to make it illegal to bring enslaved people into the United States from other countries
- 25. ideas or policies supported by a political party in an election
Down
- 1. established the procedures for governing new territories and specified how territories could become states; applied to the first new territory the United States acquired; outlawed slavery in this territory
- 2. a violent uprising against an authority
- 4. the Vice President of the United States during the Nullification Crisis; he publicly stated his disapproval of the actions of the federal government
- 6. the idea that government authority comes from people who have agreed to be governed
- 7. the federal government passed tariffs to benefit northern industries which angered southern states; federal government was given permission to collect the tariff by force; Congress eventually lowered the tariffs to appease the south
- 9. proposed by Stephen Douglas to split the land into two territories, each territory allowed to allow slavery based on popular sovereignty
- 10. the rights and powers held by individual US states rather than by the federal government
- 11. the temporary owner of a slave who was put on trial for his treatment of the slave; the US Supreme Court eventually sided with him, further acknowledging that slaves are seen as “property”
- 18. within one’s own country
- 22. a good or service sold to another country