Across
- 2. territory in which slavery would be prohibited
- 3. An event characterized by mass immigration to California in 1849
- 6. Chief Justice of the supreme court who declared that blacks were "so far inferior, that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect"
- 7. Belief that man was meant to explore and inhabit all corners of the globe
- 8. The idea that the people who founded a territory should make laws for that territory
- 10. Slave who fought the supreme court for his freedom after his owner's death
- 12. First state to secede in 1860
- 15. "Lame Duck" president that preceded Lincoln
Down
- 1. Feminist activist who supported the republican party throughout the 1850s
- 2. law which made it illegal to aid runaway slaves
- 4. republican that ran for president in 1860
- 5. Fighting style that took place in Kansas prior to 1856
- 8. Man who beat Charles Sumner over the head with a cane
- 9. The most influential anti-slavery book of the Civil War era, published in 1852
- 11. Man who led an eight man anti-slavery posse and killed 5 men in 1856
- 13. New political party that would replace the Whigs
- 14. individuals that were against immigration