Across
- 1. state entered into the U.S as a free state according to the Missouri Compromise
- 3. and unsuccessful attempt to use popular sovereignty as a solution about the debate of slavery
- 7. the compromise to balance the number of slave and free states
- 10. state that the U.S took into the Union and a cause of the Mexican War
- 11. the land Thomas Jefferson purchased from France that doubled the size of the country
Down
- 2. republican president who won the election of 1856
- 4. man who was a former slave and went before the Supreme Court in the argument over his freedom
- 5. a phrase used to describe the belief that America was to expand and settle the entire continent of North America
- 6. abolitionist man who raided Harper's Ferry in an effort to free slaves
- 7. state entered into the U.S as a slave state according to the Missouri Compromise
- 8. war between U.S and Mexico over frontier claims in Texas
- 9. group of people removed from the midwest
