Across
- 3. rights and powers independent of the federal government that are reserved for the states by the Constitution; the belief that states rights supersede federal rights and law
- 4. runaway
- 5. said that slavery should be banned from any lands that might be acquired from Mexico
- 7. a nearly unknown candidate for president in 1860 who believed slavery was morally wrong
- 9. withdraw from the Union
- 11. the idea that people could exclude slavery by refusing to pass laws protecting slaveholders rights
- 13. allowing the people to decide
- 14. the five main points of Clays original plan
- 17. an exaggerated loyalty to a particular region of the country
- 18. a storage place for weapons and ammunition
- 19. claimed Dred Scott was a slave and slaves were considered property and according to the Constitution property cannot be taken away by the government therefore the Constitution protected slavery
- 20. claimed he should be free because he once lived in free soil
Down
- 1. a conflict between citizens of the same country
- 2. an African American leader who gained freedom by fleeing to North, later returned and helped other enslaved Africans escape through the Underground Railroad
- 6. preserved the balance between slave and free states
- 8. leave
- 10. a person who dies for a great cause
- 12. required all citizens to help catch runaways
- 15. formed by the antislavery Democrats, Whigs and the old Liberty Party
- 16. not to cast votes