The Nation Splits Apart

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Across
  1. 2. president elected in 1856
  2. 10. Kansas pro-slavery constitution that was rejected by voters
  3. 11. president from 1852 to 1856;
  4. 12. temporary
  5. 13. fighting marked by sabotage, ambushes and other surprise attacks
  6. 14. nickname given to kansas because there was so much slavery related violence there
Down
  1. 1. meeting of people from the northern states and some southern states that tried to find a way to avoid war
  2. 3. war hero and California senator;
  3. 4. supreme court ruling that protected the property rights of people who held slaves
  4. 5. president of the Confederate States of America
  5. 6. name the southern states gave to the new nation they formed after leaving the union
  6. 7. plan to change the Constitution to ban slavery north of the old Missouri Compromise line separating free and slave states, and not interfere with slavery south of that line
  7. 8. killing of five pro-slavery Kansas settlers
  8. 9. antislavery leader of the Pottawatomie Massacre