Sectionalism and the Road to the Civil War

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Across
  1. 5. Admitted California as a free state, made a stronger fugitive slave act, and abolished the slave trade in D.C.
  2. 7. One othe most famous abolitionists that led the rebellion at Harper's Ferry.
  3. 10. This is the term used to describe the formal, voluntary withdrawal of the southern states from the United States.
  4. 11. This was a Supreme Court case that ruled that enslaved people were property, not citizens, and could not sue in federal court
  5. 13. This senator made a speech "Crimes Against Kansas" which criticized the Kansas-Nebraska Act and was caned by Preston Brooks.
  6. 14. mandated that all escaped enslaved people be returned to their masters, even if found in free states
Down
  1. 1. Conductor on the Underground Railroad.
  2. 2. The Kansas-Nebraska Act is best known for this policy of __________ __________; which allowed the people to vote on slavery.
  3. 3. Loyalty to a region rather than the whole country.
  4. 4. This man is remembered as the "Great Compromiser".
  5. 6. The admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
  6. 8. wrote the novel, "Uncle Tom’s Cabin" which personified slavery
  7. 9. This is a political movement that supported the superiority of native born citizens to America.
  8. 12. Someone against slavery.