Across
- 3. Ultimate violent result of unresolved tensions despite earlier legislative efforts
- 6. The westward growth of the United States that fueled conflict over free vs slave lands
- 11. Loyalty to a region over the nation, intensified by the slavery issue
- 13. Movement seeking to end slavery, intensified after compromises failed
- 14. Political goal of keeping equal slave and free state representation
- 16. Federal legislative body that approved the agreement after intense debate
- 17. Line established to prohibit slavery north of it in the Louisiana Territory (no spaces when entered)
- 19. Statesman known as the "Great Compromiser" who helped broker the agreement
Down
- 1. Form of government challenged by moral and political contradictions over slavery
- 2. Legal example set to guide future decisions, though later overturned
- 4. Region whose shifting territorial status forced national debate
- 5. The negotiated settlement intended to reduce sectional tensions
- 7. What occurred when compromise delayed—but did not solve—the core conflict
- 8. Allowed as a slave state under the 1820 agreement, tipping balance concerns in Congress
- 9. The nation whose stability was repeatedly threatened by sectional disputes
- 10. Persistent struggle between North and South over political and moral issues
- 12. Entered the Union as a free state to maintain political equilibrium
- 15. Geographic measurement used to determine legal boundary for slavery
- 17. Economic issue contributing to Northern–Southern disputes beyond slavery
- 18. Chamber of government deeply concerned about equal state representation