Across
- 1. Event where pro and anti slavery groups attempted to establish a voting majority; ended violently
- 3. The first Democratic President.
- 7. When South Carolina threatened to secede because they felt a law was unconstitutional.
- 8. Added to the Compromise of 1850; appeased the south by requiring escaped slaves to be returned
- 10. Invention that expanded the use of slavery in the South
- 11. 1831 rebellion in Virginia led by a slave preacher
- 12. Supreme Court Case that decided that enslaved people did not have citizenship and therefore could not sue
- 13. Decision made about handling slavery in the Mexican Cession; included Fugitive Slave Act and abolished the slave trade in D.C.
Down
- 2. Act that relocated Native Americans in the South East.
- 4. Term for the growing tension between the North and South
- 5. The winner of the 1860 election; first Republican president
- 6. states below the 36-30 line would be slave states, states above would be free states
- 9. 1859 rebellion in Virginia with the goal of acquiring weapons from a federal arsenal