Across
- 2. Series of congressional measures intended to settle the major disagreements between free states and slave states.
- 7. The formal withdrawal of a state from the Union.
- 9. the idea, expressed by Steven Douglas in 1858, that any territory could exclude slavery by simply refusing to pass laws supporting it.
- 10. Ardent abolitionist, published Uncle Tom’s Cabin
- 11. Favoring the interests of native-born people over foreign-born people.
- 13. A famous conductor of the underground railroad
- 15. 16th president
- 16. Amendment to an 1846 military appropriations bill, proposing that none of the territory acquired in the war with Mexico would be open to slavery.
- 17. Statuses, passed in nine northern states in the 1850s, that forbade the imprisonment of runaway slaves and guaranteed jury trials for fugitive slaves.
- 19. The confederate states of America, a confederation formed in 1861 by the southern states after their secession from the union.
- 22. Abolitionist described as “a man made of the stuff of saints”
- 26. Picked the pro-compromise reins
- 27. Law enacted in 1854, that established the territories of Kansas and Nebraska and gave their residents the right to decide whether to allow slavery
- 29. a system in which the residents vote to decide an issue
- 30. Name given to the American party, formed in the 1850s to curtain tail the political influence of immigrants
Down
- 1. Band of 21 men set out to seize the federal arsenal there
- 3. Democratic candidate, in 1852
- 4. The framed pathfinder who mapped the Oregon trial and led the U.S. troops into California during the war with Mexico
- 5. system of routes along which runaway slaves were helped to escape to Canada or to safe areas in the free states
- 6. Nominated by the Democrats
- 8. political party formed in 1848 to oppose the extension of slavery into U.S. territories
- 12. Best selling novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe, published in 1852, that portrayed slavery as a great moral evil
- 14. Called this because it became a violent Battlefield in a civil war.
- 18. Modern political party that was formed in 1854 by opponents of slavery in the territories
- 20. Law enacted as part of the compromise of 1850, designed to ensure that escaped slaves would be returned into bondage
- 21. One of the founders of the republican party
- 23. Slave from Missouri, lived with his owner north of the Missouri compromise line
- 24. Confederate constitutional convention unanimously elected the former senator (Jefferson Davis) as president.
- 25. Fillmore The successor of president Taylor, supported the compromise
- 28. Supreme court chief justice, handed the decision of Dred Scott V. Sandford