Across
- 1. What Democrat won the Presidential Election of 1856 mainly due to the support from Southern states?
- 2. this Party was generally an anti-slave party.
- 4. The party started by unhappy voters in 1848 that wanted to stop the spreading of slavery in new territories.
- 8. What was written by Henry David Thoreau in 1849
- 9. A political theory that government is subject to the will of the people is called this.
- 10. A proposal to ban slavery in any lands that were acquired from Mexico.
- 11. The act passed in 1850 that required all citizens to catch slaves who tried to run away.
- 13. What party did President Franklin Pierce belong to in 1853?
- 14. This Democratic Party ended after the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
Down
- 1. What was the group that rushed into Kansas from Missouri to pass a pro-slavery legislature known as?
- 3. This temporarily resolved the issue of whether new states would be free states or slave states.
- 5. What town was attacked in 1856 by 800 pro-slavery supporters?
- 6. Most Southern States supported this.
- 7. This African American slave sued to try to gain his freedom.
- 12. The name given when a stat withdrew from the Union.