Across
- 3. Guided slaves to freedom
- 4. _____ parties promoted political polarization
- 7. Territories decide slavery's fate
- 9. Fashioned a new party system
- 11. Preserved peace and the Union
- 13. First state to secede
- 15. Decision for _____ in South's hands
- 16. 1860 election had ____ candidates
- 17. Worked on behalf of antislavery
Down
- 1. _____ party emerged in 1850's
- 2. Pushed Plains Indians West
- 5. Northern men fighting Southern cause
- 6. Proslavery Supreme Court decision
- 8. Depicts brutality of slavery
- 10. Preserve West for free labor
- 12. Lincoln and Douglas debated _____
- 14. _____ election split the Union