Across
- 3. Political party formed in 1854 by opponents of slavery.
- 5. Supreme Court chief justice who wrote the majority opinion in the case of Dred Scott v. Sandford.
- 7. Compromise introduced in 1861 that might have prevented secession.
- 11. A system in which issues are decided by the citizenry or voters.
- 13. Abolitionist; author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
- 14. Series of laws intended to settle the major disagreements between free states and slave states.
- 15. law that established the territories of Kansas and Nebraska and gave their residents the right to decide whether to allow slavery.
- 17. Confederation formed in 1861 by the Southern states after their secession from the Union.
- 18. 1856 Supreme Court case in which a slave, Dred Scott sued for his freedom; The court ruled against Scott.
- 19. Illinois Republican who ran against Stephen Douglas in 1858 for the Senate.
Down
- 1. 1846 proposal that outlawed slavery in any territory gained by the War with Mexico.
- 2. John Brown led the raid on the Federal arsenal in Virginia, in hopes of starting a slave revolt, captured in 1859 during an antislavery revolt.
- 4. law meant to help slaveholders recapture runaway slaves.
- 6. First President of the Confederate States of America.
- 8. Novel published by Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1852 that showed slavery as brutal and immoral.
- 9. To withdraw.
- 10. Idea that the states have certain rights that the federal government cannot override.
- 12. Political party dedicated to stopping the expansion of slavery.
- 16. Illinois senator who backed the Compromise of 1850