The Union in Peril

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Across
  1. 3. designed to eliminate slavery within the land acquired as a result of the Mexican War.
  2. 7. A territory had the right to exclude slavery despite contrary U.S. Supreme Court decisions.
  3. 8. American abolitionist, humanitarian, and an armed scout and spy for the United States Army during the American Civil War.
  4. 9. Part of the Compromise of 1850 between Southern slave-holding interests and Northern Free-Soilers.
  5. 11. A system in which the residents vote to decide an issue
  6. 12. Anti-slavery activists, modernists, ex-Whigs, and ex-Free Soilers in 1854.
  7. 13. Border War was a series of violent political confrontations in the United States involving anti-slavery "Free-Staters" and pro-slavery.
  8. 18. A system of Routes along which runway slaves were helped to escape to Canada or to safe areas in the free states.
  9. 19. The formal with drawl of a state from the union.
  10. 20. A series of congressional measures intended to settle the major disagreements between free states and slave states.
  11. 21. An American politician from Illinois and the designer of the Kansas–Nebraska Act.
  12. 22. Landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court on US labor law and constitutional law.
Down
  1. 1. Strongly opposed immigrants and followers of the Catholic Church.
  2. 2. American politician who was a U.S. Representative and Senator from Mississippi.
  3. 4. American abolitionist who believed armed insurrection was the only way to overthrow the institution of slavery in the United States.
  4. 5. Passed by the U.S. Congress on May 30, 1854. It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders.
  5. 6. Part of the Maryland Campaign of the American Civil War.
  6. 10. American abolitionist and author. Best known for her novel Uncle Tom's Cabin.
  7. 14. The policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants.
  8. 15. Short-lived political party in the United States active in the 1848 and 1852 presidential elections.
  9. 16. Secessionist American states existing from 1861 to 1865.
  10. 17. Anti-slavery novel.