History Crossword

1. an antislavery novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe that showed northerners the violent reality of slavery and drew many people to the abolitionists’ cause
3. a proposal to outlaw slavery in the territory added to the United States by the Mexican Cession; passed in the House of Representatives but was defeated in the Senate
4. to formally withdraw from the Union
8. Enslaved African American, he ran away and was arrested in Boston. His arrest became the center of violent protests by northern opponents of the Fugitive Slave Act
10. the idea that political authority belongs to the people
11. Whig candidate of election of 1852
14. a political party formed in 1848 by antislavery northerners who left the Whig and Democratic parties because neither addressed the slavery issue
15. an incident in which abolitionist John Brown and seven other men murdered pro-slavery Kansans
16. Won election of 1852
18. escaped from slavery when he was 20 and became an important African American leader.
19. an abolitionist leader who organized the fugitive slave convention
20. tried to escape from slavery but were captured. Abolitionists later purchased their freedom.

2. American politician who supported the idea of building a railroad to the Pacific ocean
5. a law that allowed voters in Kansas and Nebraska to choose whether to allow slavery
6. Free soil candidate of election of 1852
7. he assaulted and beat Senator Charles Sumner for his antislavery speeches and for insulting a pro-slavery relative
9. a law that made it a crime to help runaway slaves; allowed for the arrest of escaped slaves in areas where slavery was illegal
12. Henry Clay’s proposed agreement that allowed California to enter the Union as a free state
13. a devotion to the interests of one geographic region over the interests of the country as a whole
17. was attacked by Preston Brooks with a cane over the issue of slavery