Across
- 2. The name of the senator that came up with the Compromise of 1850
- 7. The Most controversial Part of the Compromise of 1850
- 8. This stated that slavery would not be allowed in any territory we got from the Mexican War. It was defeated in the senate.
- 9. New Mexico and Utah could become slave states as long as this state became a free state
- 10. Part of the Compromise of 1850 was that there was not longer going to be slave trades allowed in the nation's _________
- 11. This line said anything north was free and anything south was slave
- 12. This amendment proposed that Missouri enter the union as a free state, but was defeated in the senate
- 17. As long as we kept a __________between slave and free state then The North could not pass and anitslavery law
- 18. The author of Uncle Tom's Cabin
Down
- 1. Senator Stephen Douglas just wanted this and did not care about Kansas or Nebraska
- 3. This was the law that decided how new states entered the union
- 4. Mrs. Tallman said the US was just putting these on, instead of having major surgery
- 5. This state was the solution to Missouri joining the union. Missouri could be a slave state and this state could be a free state
- 6. This act said that the people of Kansas and Nebraska could decide if their state was free or slave
- 7. The term for an escaped slave
- 13. Another band aid. This was a rule that you were not allowed to talk about slavery in any bill or law
- 14. Lincoln said that slavery was this type of issue.
- 15. Things were getting pretty violent on the senate and House floor over the Kansas and Nebraska Act. A senator was even hit with this
- 16. The southern states continuously threated to do this