Across
- 4. a senator beaten after speaking openly re: the love affair between the south and slavery
- 6. withdrawal from the Union
- 7. a novel written by a white woman about the truths of slavery
- 10. an enslaved man who accompanied his slaveholder to a free territory and sued for freedom, but lost
- 11. act that allowed slave catchers to seize African Americans they accused of having escaped slavery
- 12. the law administered by military forces that is invoked by a government in an emergency
- 13. an act of rebellion against the established government
- 16. had members referred to as "conductors" that would aid slaves in the escape to freedom
Down
- 1. the practice of letting the voters accept or reject measures proposed by legislature
- 2. a railroad built to connect the west coast to the rest of the country
- 3. the idea that people living in a territory had the right to decide by voting whether to allow slavery
- 5. a nickname they gave Kansas due to the many battles had there
- 8. won the presidency without southern vote, presidency caused the south to leave the union
- 9. the confederacy met here when they united under the Confederate States of America
- 14. a bill that stated slavery should not exist in any territory
- 15. an abolitionist that became a martyr when he was killed during a seize of federal arsenals.