Across
- 3. to leave or break away
- 4. the nations top court it decides wether laws follow the united states constitution
- 6. the u.s government that wanted the nation to remain a single country
- 8. to do away with end or stop
- 9. the U.S declared California a free state and allowed five new states to vote on the issue
- 10. compromise that counted each slave as 3/5 of a person for representation
- 11. the act declared that citizens could vote on whether new states would be free or slave states
- 12. a national bestselling book that exposed the brutality of slavery
- 13. a war between citizens of the same country
- 14. the supreme court declared that all states must allow slavery
Down
- 1. the 16th president of the U.S.
- 2. the u.s split the Louisiana purchase, assigning half of Missouri as a slave state and the rest as a free state
- 5. person elected to represent a state based on its population
- 7. the government that the 11 seceded states formed
- 8. a person who wanted to get rid of slavery