Across
- 3. Candidate nominated for the 1860 election by the Constitutional Union Party
- 7. Early leader of the Republican Party who campaigned against Douglas for a Senate seat and the presidency
- 8. South Carolina representative who beat a fellow Congressman unconscious with his cane in the Senate chambers
- 10. The author of Uncle Tom's Cabin who spoke out against slavery
- 12. The president of the Confederate States of America
- 13. Democratic candidate and winner of the 1856 presidential election
- 14. Democratic candidate who won the presidential election of 1852 by a large margin
- 15. Chief Justice of the Supreme Court during the Dred Scott decision
Down
- 1. Senator who introduced what would become the Kansas-Nebraska Act and later campaigned against Abraham Lincoln for a seat in the U.S. Senate and the presidency
- 2. Pro-slavery candidate nominated by southern Democrats for the 1860 election
- 4. Republican candidate for the election of 1856. He was against the spread of slavery.
- 5. Kentucky senator who proposed constitutional amendments to satisfy the south and avoid a civil war
- 6. A fugitive slave from VA who was arrested in Boston. Northerners were outraged when he was forced to return to VA.
- 9. Massachusetts senator who criticized the actions of pro-slavery people in Kansas and pro-slavery leaders
- 11. Slave who tried to sue for his freedom because he lived in a free state before returning to Missouri