Across
- 3. Daughter of Senator Thomas Benton
- 4. Transformed sleepy frontier of California
- 5. President of the Confederacy
- 7. declared the Confederacy's "cornerstone"
- 9. Repealed the Missouri Compromise
- 11. Gave voters a Unionist choice
- 13. Architect of Union-saving compromises
- 14. Whigs and anti-slavery Democrats founded
- 15. Pathfinder of the west
Down
- 1. James Gadsen negotiated the
- 2. Solomon Northrop wrote
- 6. Revealed Democrat's main challenger
- 8. were officially the American Party
- 10. Wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin
- 12. Depicts the South's "peculiar institution"