Paddock AH U2b: Crossword Puzzle

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Across
  1. 1. Stephen Douglas' attempt to allow popular sovereignty to decide the slavery issue in the territories in exchange for the Trans-Continental Railroad linking California and Illinois.
  2. 4. United States abolitionist who published an anti-slavery newspaper called The Liberator
  3. 5. Lewis Cass' idea that locals should decide whether they wanted slavery or not.
  4. 7. Abolitionist who was hanged after leading an unsuccessful raid at Harper's Ferry, Virginia (1800-1858)
  5. 9. Required that northern states pay to arrest runaways, put them on a commissioner trial and return them to slavery.
  6. 12. United States abolitionist who escaped from slavery and became an influential writer and lecturer in the North (1817-1895)
  7. 13. Term that refers to guides on the Underground Railroad
  8. 17. United States slave who sued for liberty after living in a non-slave state
  9. 18. Former slave who helped slaves escape on the Underground Railroad
  10. 19. First state to secede from the Union
  11. 20. 1857 Supreme Court decision ruling that a slave who had escaped to a free state enjoyed no rights as a citizen and that Congress had no authority to ban slavery in the territories.
  12. 21. Laws passed by Northern state governments to counteract the Fugitive Slave Acts and protect escaped slaves, by giving them the right to a jury trial.
Down
  1. 2. Movement to end slavery
  2. 3. Site of a federal arsenal where a militant abolitionist attempted to start a slave rebellion
  3. 6. California = free state, popular sovereignty for Utah and New Mexico, slave trade abolished in DC, and Fugitive Slave Law
  4. 8. Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin
  5. 10. A network of Southern Abolitionists that helped slaves escape to freedom in the North
  6. 11. An agreement in 1820 that new states would be introduced as pairs of pro and anti slavery in order to keep the Senate balanced.
  7. 14. Novel which portrayed slavery as brutal and immoral and kept Great Britain from supporting the Confederacy (South) during the US Civil War.
  8. 15. Lincoln, the Republican candidate, won because the Democratic party was split over slavery. As a result, the South no longer felt like it has a voice in politics and a number of states seceded from the Union.
  9. 16. Leader of a slave rebellion in 1831 in Virginia. Revolt led to stricter restrictions on slaves and a "gag rule" in Congress that forbid discussion of slavery.