Across
- 2. a person who is killed because of their religious or other beliefs
- 5. derogatory name for proslavery raiders from the slave state of Missouri
- 7. short-lived coalition political party in the United States active from 1848 to 1854
- 8. federal union and southern states that voted to secede
- 11. withdrawal of a group from a larger entity
- 13. the crime of betraying one's country
- 15. American attorney and statesman who represented Kentucky
- 16. issue of slavery and territorial expansion
- 17. a civil legal action by one person or entity
- 18. created two new territories, and allowed for popular sovereignty
Down
- 1. type of warfare fought by irregulars in fast-moving, small-scale actions against orthodox military and police forces
- 2. balance of power in Congress between slave and free states
- 3. government based on consent of the people
- 4. a collection of weapons and military equipment
- 6. a person who has escaped from a place or is in hiding
- 7. act required that slaves be returned to their owners, even if they were in a free state
- 9. American lawyer and statesman who represented New Hampshire
- 10. unsuccessful 1846 proposal in the United States Congress to ban slavery
- 12. American statesman and political theorist from South Carolina
- 14. anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe