Across
- 3. document stating that "neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist in any part of the territory
- 4. where John Brown and his men killed 5 proslavery men
- 7. compromise that seemed to settle most disputes between free and slave states
- 8. antislavery novel
- 9. plan to divide the remainder of the Louisiana Purchase
- 11. enslaved man who sued for his freedom
- 12. 16th President of the United States
- 14. 6 states that seceded and formed their own nation
- 15. Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
- 16. Buchanan 15th President of the United States
- 17. formally withdrawing from the Union
- 18. political party united against the spread of slavery in the West
- 19. attempt to take over the arsenal at Harper's Ferry to start a slave rebellion
Down
- 1. made it a crime to help runaway slaves and runaways could be arrested in free states
- 2. political party that recognized "no political principles other than the Constitution of the country"
- 5. idea that political power belongs to the people
- 6. political party that supported the Wilmot Proviso
- 10. favoring the interests of one section or region over the interests of the country
- 13. President of the Confederacy