The Union in Peril-Chapter 10

5. A political party that was founded by anti-slavery activists.
10. Everything that was gained from Mexico was slave-free territory.
13. A slave who sued his master for his freedom because he was brought into a free-state.
15. A book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe to try and aware everyone of the awfulness of slavery.
18. A battle fought on September 12–15, 1862, as part of the Maryland Campaign of the American Civil War.
20. The author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin."
22. When they favored natural-born Americans over the immigrants.

1. A series of violent confrontations involving anti-slavery Free-Staters and pro-slavery things that took place in Kansas.
2. A political party whose main purpose was opposing the expansion of slavery into the western territories.
3. The main "conductor" of the Underground Railroad.
4. Separating from; or breaking away from something.
6. The right for states to decide if they are slave states, or free states.
7. A route made for slaves to safely escape to freedom in the North.
8. When runaway slaves were found in the North, they were to be returned to their owners in the South.
9. An anti-slavery man from Nebraska who died by being hung.
11. A party where the membership was limited to Protestant males.
12. An act that divided Kansas and Nebraska into territories.
14. The President of the Confederate States of America during the entire Civil War.
16. Slavery could be prevented from any territory by the refusal of the people living in that territory to pass laws favorable to slavery.
17. Senator from Illinois who helped with The Compromise of 1850.
19. California was a free state; & all runaway slaves found in the North, would be returned to the owners in the South.
21. A government set up in 1861 by several slave states of the Lower South that had declared their secession from the United States.