Across
- 2. The side of the states and people that’s against slavery, and are free states.
- 7. A four-year war that abolished slavery and transformed the US into what it is today.
- 10. The compromise that made Maine the free state and Missouri the slave state, and also brought forth the 36°30' line and the Fugitive Slave Act.
- 11. What the South or pro-slavery call themselves during the Civil War.
- 12. One of the splitted sides of the Whig party that support slavery.
- 14. What the North or abolishionist call themselves during the Civil War.
- 15. This act that is passed with the Missouri Compromise, allowed slave owner to hire slave catchers to catch their runaway slaves that are in the North. It also made that nobody is allowed to interfer with the actions that the slave catchers do.
Down
- 1. The person who caused the Pottawatomie Massacre and the Raid on Harpers Ferry.
- 3. One of the splitted sides of the Whig party that’s against slavery.
- 4. A compromise between North and South that three out of five slaves will be counted as people.
- 5. An act that passed that broke the Missouri Compromise by making Kansas and Nebraska into swaying states. This also later broke the Whig party at that time into the Republic and Democatic party.
- 6. A federal case which a slave named Dred Scott and his family had been moved to the North and back to the South, and due to the law at that time, they should already be free. So they fought it in court with the slave owner, but still lost in the end.
- 8. Because of the passing of the Kansas Nebraska Act, pro-slavery and abolishionist moved to the states. Lots of murders happened, such as the Pottawatomie Massacre by John brown and three of his sons.
- 9. The side of the states and people that support slavery, and are slave states.
- 13. John Brown and his army tried to raid a town called Harper’s Ferry, Virginia on October 18. But they failed and everyone in the army died before the end of that year.