Chapter 16 crossword

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Across
  1. 2. a person owned like property and worked without pay or freedoms
  2. 4. political powers held for the state governments rather than the federal government according to the United States Constitution
  3. 6. an American statesman and lawyer who served as the 16th president of the United States from 1861 until his assassination in 1865.
  4. 8. the agreements made that created the fugitive slave law, admitted California to the country as a slave state, and created Utah and New Mexico territories which slavery determined by popular sovereignty
  5. 9. a statement executed by a Georgia Convention in Milledgeville, Georgia on December 10, 1850, in response to the Compromise of 1850
  6. 10. a law passed as part of the Compromise of 1850 that increased the punishment of runaway slaves and those who helped them.
Down
  1. 1. in the United States from 1861 to 1865, fought between northern states loyal to the Union and southern states that had seceded to form the Confederate States of America.
  2. 3. was the 19th quadrennial presidential election, held on November 6, 1860.
  3. 5. was United States federal legislation that admitted Missouri as a slave state
  4. 7. an enslaved African-American man in the United States who unsuccessfully sued for his freedom and that of his wife