Across
- 3. Leader of Bleeding Kansas
- 4. Compromise through popular sovereignty
- 6. Purchase for Transcontinental Railroad
- 8. New nation of seceded
- 10. Pathfinder of the West
- 11. Tall with top hat
- 14. Congress can't exclude slavery
- 15. Rising Illinois Democratic Star
Down
- 1. Writer "Uncle Tom's Cabin"
- 2. Northerners with Southern sympathy
- 5. Wanted to leave Union
- 7. Mexican-American war hero
- 9. Attempted to unite antislavery
- 12. Called major political realignment
- 13. Chief Justice Dred Scott