Across
- 2. Nickname for pro-slavery Missourians who crossed into Kansas to vote (2 words)
- 3. Idea that people in a territory should decide whether to allow slavery (2 words)
- 4. Law that admitted California as a free state and created stricter fugitive slave rules (3 words)
- 7. Compromise admitting Missouri as slave and Maine as free (2 words)
- 9. State that entered the Union as slave in the Missouri Compromise
- 10. 16th president of the United States (2 words)
- 11. Violence in Kansas during the 1850s between pro- and anti-slavery settlers (2 words)
- 12. Novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe exposing slavery’s brutality (3 words)
- 15. Author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin (2 words)
Down
- 1. Supreme Court case that ruled enslaved people were property (3 words)
- 5. Law that allowed settlers of Kansas and Nebraska to decide slavery by popular sovereignty (3 words)
- 6. Escape law passed as part of the Compromise of 1850 (3 words)
- 8. Political party formed in the 1850s opposing the expansion of slavery (2 words)
- 13. State that entered the Union as free in the Missouri Compromise
- 14. Illinois senator who debated Lincoln in 1858 (2 words)
