Across
- 3. Made a purchase of 30,000 sq. miles of land
- 5. These emphasized the dangers of delay
- 7. Lincoln's opponent in the famous debates, Douglas
- 8. Gravitated towards the Republican Party, against slavery
- 9. A free-soil settler
- 13. Chief Justice of the Supreme Court in 1857
- 14. Series of secret stations, not real railroad
- 15. Whigs nominated this Mexican-American War hero
- 16. Constitution that was denounced by Stephen Douglas
- 17. Wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin
Down
- 1. Rising Democratic star from Illinois
- 2. Wife of the Pathfinder of the West
- 4. Southern moderates formed this Union Party
- 6. Called for a major political realignment
- 10. Party that was provoked by the Kansas-Nebraska Act
- 11. Northern men malleable enough to champion southern causes
- 12. Pathfinder of the West