Across
- 3. 14th President
- 5. Political party of the 1850s that was anti-Catholic and anti-immigrant
- 8. A system that helped enslaved African Americans follow a network of escape routes out of the South to freedom in the North
- 9. The 15th President of the United States
- 12. laws passed by Northern states forbidding the imprisonment of escaped slaves
- 13. President of the Confederate States of America
- 14. an American military officer, explorer, the first candidate of the Republican Party for the office of President of the United States
- 16. John Brown's scheme to invade the South with armed slaves
- 17. An American newspaper editor and founder of the Republican party.
- 18. A law that made it a crime to help runaway slaves
- 19. United States abolitionist born a slave on a plantation in Maryland and became a famous conductor
Down
- 1. Chief Justice of the Supreme Court when Dred Scott decision was made
- 2. 1854 - anti-slavery Whigs and Democrats, Free Soilers and reformers from the Northwest met and formed party in order to keep slavery out of the territories
- 4. Idea authored by Stephen Douglas
- 6. A policy of favoring native-born individuals over foreign-born ones
- 7. 16th President of the United States
- 10. A loose union of independent states
- 11. A political party dedicated to stopping the expansion of slavery
- 15. a black slave, had lived with his master for 5 years in Illinois and Wisconsin Territory.