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3. After Charles Sumner of Massachusetts criticized people who were pro-slavery, this broke out.
5. Over the summer hundreds of people were killed in "Bleeding Kansas"
6. Invoked the doctrine of popular sovereignty and allow the people there to determine the slavery issue.
9. This required Northern citizens to cooperate with and assist slave-catchers, and denied runaway slaves a fair trial.
11. An idea made by Henry Clay that was passed into law.
12. These people crossed the border to vote from the slave state of Missouri.
13. An Illinois senator that wanted to build a railroad that ran through it from Chicago to the Pacific.
16. An essay written by Henry David Thoreau on the idea that people should refuse to follow the laws or commands of a government when they seem unjust.
17. Part of an alliance or confederacy
18. Negated the fugitive slave act and proved to the South that the North was not enforcing the law.
20. When someone is sworn into office, what do they give?

1. A belief that territories could exclude slavery through local legislation.
2. On December 20 1860 what state seceded from the US
4. Nominated by the Northern Democrats for the Election of 1860.
7. Someone who died for their beliefs.
8. Nominated by the Republican Party to be president of California.
10. Won by Zachary Taylor.
14. Proposed by David Wilmot suggesting that slavery be banned in any territory acquired through the Mexican Cession.
15. relief from an injury or wrong doing
19. An enslaved man that fueled the abolitionist cause.