The Fight over Slavery

2. People who advocated for the immediate end of slavery.
5. A proposal to ban slavery in any territory acquired from Mexico.
6. A law that created two new territories and allowed residents to decide the issue of slavery by popular sovereignty.
10. The president of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War.
11. The violent conflict in Kansas between pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions.
13. The act of formally withdrawing from the Union.
14. A political party formed in the 1850s to oppose the expansion of slavery into western territories.
18. A series of laws passed to resolve the conflict over California's statehood and the issue of slavery.
19. A series of debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas over the issue of slavery.
20. Stephen Douglas's argument that slavery could not exist without local laws to protect it.

1. The idea that people in a territory should decide whether slavery should be allowed.
3. The United States, particularly the Northern states during the Civil War.
4. A law that made it a crime to help runaway slaves and allowed for their capture in free states.
7. The system in which people are forced to work without pay and are considered property.
8. The presidential election in which Abraham Lincoln won, leading to the secession of Southern states.
9. An 1820 agreement that regulated slavery in the western territories, maintaining a balance between slave and free states.
12. The government formed by Southern states that seceded from the Union.
15. The 1857 Supreme Court ruling that declared African Americans were not citizens and that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional.
16. The location of an 1859 raid led by John Brown to arm enslaved people.
17. U.S. Senator from Illinois who supported the idea of popular sovereignty and proposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act.