Across
- 2. The act that allowed California to become a state, held civil war off for more than a decade
- 5. the man who led the expedition to Japan 1853 also pretty girl in our class
- 7. Silver was mined here from 1859-1892
- 10. James ___, term 1857-1861
- 11. The US opened to ____ in 1853
- 13. The land that the US got from Mexico
- 14. The state admitted to the Union 1850, by Fillmore
Down
- 1. California became a state during his term
- 3. Major clashes between pro and anti slavery advocates
- 4. The second state in the Kansas-___ act
- 6. _____ Telegraph line, laid under the sea in 1858 first international telegraph line
- 8. Signed a document that caused a bloody war between abolitionists and Slave Owners
- 9. A runaway slave who helped other African Americans escape slavery, was a spy and nurse for the Union during the civil war
- 12. The fever that killed 12000 people in 1853 New Orleans
