Across
- 1. nickname for pro-slavery settlers who tried to sway the vote in Kansas
- 4. last name of the Pottawatomie Creek "massacre" leader
- 5. an enslaved person who had run away was considered to be this
- 7. Lincoln said he would allow this to stay where it was, but wouldn't allow it to spread further
- 8. what Stephen Douglas wanted to run through Illinois and the new territories
- 10. last name of Uncle Tom's creator
- 11. he name of the fort where Confederates fired on federal troops, starting the Civil War
- 14. Sojourner's refrain
- 15. he proposed several compromises
- 17. the violent nickname of Kansas in the mid 1850s
- 18. to leave formally, especially from a nation
- 21. A ___ divided against itself cannot stand
- 22. Lincoln's first national political campaign was for this office
- 24. Virginia present day state of Harpers Ferry
- 26. the first state to secede
- 27. last name of the Marine who led the federal government response to John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry
Down
- 2. the total number of states that eventually formed the Confederacy
- 3. the Dred Scott decision is maybe the most ________ decision in the history of SCOTUS
- 5. what Dred Scott sued for
- 6. people in the North complained the Compromise of 1850 made "_________" of us all
- 9. Douglass's primary complaint about the U.S. in his 4th of July speech
- 12. the party of Lincoln
- 13. the free state admitted to the Union in 1820
- 16. the month of Nat Turner's rebellion in 1831
- 19. one of the free states where Dred Scott traveled with his owner
- 20. number of southern states that didn't have Lincoln on the ballot in 1860
- 23. the type of sovereignty that allows people of a place to decide on matters
- 25. the slave _____ was outlawed in Washington, DC as of 1850