Across
- 4. one of the two major political parties in the US
- 5. played an important role in the settlement of the west
- 8. Webster a lawyer and member of congress
- 10. Douglas power United States senator who infused the nation debate about slavery
- 13. northern and western states that fought against the confederacy
- 14. laws that forbid people from discussing or debating particular topics
Down
- 1. violent confrontation in 1856 between proslavery and anti slavery
- 2. clay lawyer in kentucky and member of Thomas Jefferson’s Republican Party
- 3. states that did not allow slavery
- 6. state in which slaver was legal
- 7. political theatre that some states rights advocates held in the late 1700s and early 1800s
- 9. brown an abolitionist who believed that he needed to take extreme action to help slavery
- 11. sovereignty belief that the political power of nation or state comes from the consent of the people
- 12. eaters group of southern proslavery extremist