Across
- 2. a political philosophy that emphasizes the rights of individual states to fight what proponents believe to be the encroaching power of the United States government
- 4. upheld slavery in United States territories, denied the legality of black citizenship in America, and declared the Missouri Compromise to be unconstitutional
- 6. repealed the Missouri Compromise, created two new territories, and allowed for popular sovereignty
- 10. Abraham Lincoln the presidential election of 1860 in a four-way contest
Down
- 1. the number of free and slaveholding states stayed the same, thus preserving the balance of power in the Congress
- 3. admitted California to the United States as a “free” (no slavery) state but allowed some newly acquired territories to decide on slavery for themselves.
- 5. a novel (1852) by the US writer Harriet Beecher Stowe which increased support for the movement to end slavery
- 7. the constitutional theory that individual states can invalidate federal laws or judicial decisions they deem unconstitutional
- 8. The act was instrumental in averting a national crisis.
- 9. Brown and his men captured prominent citizens and seized the federal armory and arsenal