Across
- 3. war hero and California senator;
- 6. southern democratic candidate for president in 1860 election
- 14. supreme court ruling that protected the property rights of people who held slaves
- 15. president who supported the Compromise in 1850
- 20. name the southern states gave to the new nation they formed after leaving the union
- 21. Tennessee senator nominated for president in 1860
- 22. meeting of people from the northern states and some southern states that tried to find a way to avoid war
- 23. opposition to immigration
- 25. law giving popular sovereignty to kansas and nebraska
- 26. law that made it a federal crime to assist runaway slaves
- 28. the idea of letting residents decide what laws to be governed by;
- 30. president from 1852 to 1856;
Down
- 1. people who were against the spread of slavery
- 2. fighting marked by sabotage, ambushes and other surprise attacks
- 3. antislavery leader of the Pottawatomie Massacre
- 4. senator from Illinois; led the fight to pass the compromise of 1850
- 5. plan to change the constitution to ban slavery north of the old Missouri compromise line separating free and slave states;
- 7. political party founded in 1854
- 8. killing of five pro-slavery Kansas settlers
- 9. author of Uncle Tom's cabin
- 10. president of the Confederate States of America
- 11. nickname given to kansas because there was so much slavery related violence there
- 12. set of five laws that dealt with slavery issues
- 13. position put forth by Douglas during a debate with Lincoln;
- 16. debates that took place in 1858
- 17. Kansas pro-slavery constitution that was rejected by voters
- 18. novel about slave life in the south
- 19. temporary
- 24. antislavery republican elected to the presidency in 1860
- 27. president elected in 1856
- 28. statement of the principles that a group stands for
- 29. a person with extreme views