Across
- 3. The placing of the interests of one’s own region ahead of the interests of the nation as whole
- 5. A series of agreements passed by Congress in 1820-21 to maintain the balance of power between slave states and free states
- 8. A series of Congressional measures intended to settle the major disagreements between free states and slave states
- 9. A conflict between the United States and Mexico in an attempt for the United States to complete Manifest Destiny.
- 10. 11th President of the United States; Expansionist
- 11. a radical abolitionist, and 22 followers, decide to raid a federal general in Harper's Ferry, Virginia and use the guns to start a massive slave rebellion
- 12. A system in which the residents vote to decide an issue
Down
- 1. A law enacted in 1854, that established the territories of Kansas and Nebraska and gave their residents the right to decide whether to allow slavery
- 2. Election where slavery was the central issue, Abraham Lincoln (Republican) won over John Breckinridge (Democrat), and John Bell (Constitutional Union Party). Lincoln won 40% of popular vote, but won a large majority of electoral votes. Lincoln's victory leads the south to secede.
- 4. The U.S. Supreme Court stated that enslaved people were not citizens of the United States and, therefore, could not expect any protection from the federal government or the courts.
- 6. The 1848 treaty ending the US war with Mexico, in which Mexico ceded California and New Mexico to the United States.
- 7. The 19th Century belief that the United States would inevitably expand westward to the Pacific Ocean and into Mexican Territory.