civil war crossword

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Across
  1. 1. widely held cultural belief in the 19th-century United States that American settlers were destined to expand across North America.
  2. 2. American author and abolitionist.
  3. 3. package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress in September 1850 that defused a political confrontation between slave and free states
  4. 5. Law was passed by the United States Congress on September 18, 1850, as part of the Compromise of 1850 between Southern interests in slavery and Northern Free-Soilers.
  5. 6. enslaved African-American man in the United States who unsuccessfully sued for his freedom
  6. 8. 11th president of the usa
  7. 11. widely held cultural belief in the 19th-century United States that American settlers were destined to expand across North America.
  8. 12. territorial organic act that created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska.
Down
  1. 1. was a United States federal legislation that stopped northern attempts to forever prohibit slavery's expansion by admitting Missouri as a slave state
  2. 2. American attorney and statesman who represented Kentucky in both the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives.
  3. 4. In the Treaty, Mexico agreed to surrender all claims to Texas and accept the Rio Grande as the boundary of that state.
  4. 7. loyalty to ones own region or section of the country rather than to the country as a whole.
  5. 9. mini civil war between pro- and anti-slavery forces that occurred in Kansas from 1856 to 1865.
  6. 10. 16th president of the united states