Across
- 3. a novel that depicts the brutality of the South
- 5. rising Democratic star from Illinois
- 6. become president when Zachary Taylor died
- 7. series of secret "stations"
- 9. lincoln was prairie Republican of this
- 11. to seize an alleged slave
- 13. a free-soil settler
- 15. place were celebrated birth of Confederate States
Down
- 1. was formed to provide a Unionist choice
- 2. the daughter of Senator Thomas Hart Benton
- 4. who emphasized the dangers of delay
- 8. made huge territory to Nebraska and Kansas
- 10. Senator Douglas denounced this
- 12. lived in a two-story house in Springfield
- 14. Northerner who never set foot on a plantation
- 16. what percent of southern men went to the polls