Across
- 2. Great compromise and fire-eater from South Carolina
- 3. what southerners referred to slavery as
- 5. person opposed to slavery
- 9. Ruled the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional in the mid-1850s
- 12. challenged his freedom all the way to the Supreme Court but lost in the end
- 15. wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin in the 1850s and made Queen Victoria cry
- 16. Force anyone north or south to assist in the return of runaway slaves
- 18. Runaway slave that was a conductor on the underground railroad
- 20. led a failed slave revolt at Harpers Ferry Virginia
- 21. passed in 1820 kept the balance of power in the senate among the states
- 22. One of the Great Compromisers from Kentucky
- 23. He debated Lincoln in 1858 on the issue of popular sovereignty
- 24. In the 1850s this territory exploded into guerilla warfare over popular Sovereignty
- 25. where many slaves ran to on the underground railroad
Down
- 1. idea that new territories would decide the status of Slavery
- 4. one of the Great Compromisers from Massachusetts
- 6. person who openly favored succession by the 1850s
- 7. Supreme Court case ruled the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional
- 8. this was a trade route for slaves in colonial America
- 10. In Chief justice Taney ruling he stated Black men had no rights slave or free
- 11. slavery profitable
- 13. Lincoln Was seen as a rising star in the Republican party by 1858
- 14. Was King in the south by the 1850s
- 17. Invented the Cotton gin
- 19. was an escape route north for runaway slaves
