Across
- 2. (Northern and Western states that fought against the Confederacy)
- 6. Slave Laws (punishments related to the return of escaped slaves to their owners)
- 7. Kansas (violent confrontation in 1856 between proslavery and antislavery)
- 9. state (states in which slavery was legal)
- 10. sovereignty (belief that the political power comes from the consent of the people)
- 11. of Abominations (taxed things from other countries)
- 13. clay (served in Congress for more than 30 years)
Down
- 1. Act (resolve the issue of whether slavery would be legal in certain areas)
- 3. Party (one of the two major political parties in the United States)
- 4. gin (Thing to separate seeds)
- 5. Scott (African American man whose status as free or enslaved was decided by the Supreme Court)
- 8. Compromise (enter the United States as a free state or slave state)
- 12. state (states that did not allow slavery)