Across
- 2. SOVEREIGNTY A policy that allowed voters in a territory to decide whether or not to allow slavery
- 3. PROVISO A proposed law that prohibited slavery in any lands won from Mexico
- 4. To break away
- 5. SLAVE ACT A law that required the return of runaway slaves to their master
Down
- 1. OF 1850 Legislation based on Henry Clay's proposal for concessions by both the North and the South
- 5. SOIL PARTY A group whose main goal was to keep slavery out of the western territories