Across
- 2. abolitionist; author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin
- 5. 1854 law that established the territories of Kansas and Nebraska and gave their residents the right to decide whether to allow slavery
- 9. idea that the states have certain rights that the federal government cannot overrule
- 14. to withdraw
- 15. 1846 proposal that outlawed slavery in any territory gained from the War with Mexico
- 17. Series of laws intended to settle the major disagreements between free states and slave states
- 18. Supreme Court chief justice who wrote the majority opinion in the case of Dred Scott v. Sandford
- 21. statement of beliefs
- 22. federal arsenal in Virginia; captured in 1859 during an anti-slavery revolt
- 23. novel published by Harriet Beecher Stowe
- 24. Democratic presidential candidate in 1856
- 25. 1850 law meant to help slaveholders recapture runaway slaves
Down
- 1. political party organized in 1834 to oppose the policies of Andrew Jackson
- 3. petty quarreling
- 4. confederation formed in 1861 by the Southern states after their secession from the Union
- 6. compromise introduced in 1861 tht might have prevented secession
- 7. Illinois Senator who backed the Compromise of 1850
- 8. Illinois Republican who ran against Stephen A. Douglas in 1858
- 10. anti-immigrant party formed in the 1850’s
- 11. political party formed in 1854 by opponents of slavery
- 12. Political party dedicated to stopping the expansion of slavery
- 13. 1856 Supreme Court case in which a slave, Dred Scott, sued for his freedom; the court ruled against scott
- 16. a system in which issues are decided by the citizenry or voters
- 19. first president of the Confederate States of America
- 20. Republican presidential candidate in 1856