U.S History chapter 10 vocab Crossword
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
 
 
Down: 1) Part of the Lincoln Douglass debate . Douglass stated that the congress should not have a choice whether or not a state should be slave or free. It should be decided by popular sovereignty 2) Candidates were John C. Breckinridge and Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln wins the election end of slavery3) Promoted the Nebraska Kansas act. Was in opposition with Lincoln 4) was the second of four proposed constitutions for the state of Kansas The document was written in response to the anti-slavery position of the 1855 Topeka Constitution of James H. Lane and other free-state advocates 6) Became the 13th president after Zachary Taylor died passed the compromise of 1850 7) 1861 union of all southern states that seceded 8) Started by Harriet Tubman and northern abolitionists. Helped salves escape to freedom 9) California's application for statehood messed with the balance of free and slave states11) Has four parts . Congress would admit California as a free state, the people of the territories of New Mexico and Utah would decide the slavery question by popular sovereignty . Slave trade would end in DC, but not slavery. Texas would give up claims to NM for $10 million 12) The Whigs and democrats split over the question of whether to limit the expansion of slavery between Zachary Taylor and Martin van buren. Zachary Taylor won 17) Ends the Whig party. Democrat Franklin Pierce wins 18) Tried to establish an American colony in Nicaragua, was overthrown by the people of Nicaragua 19) First president of the confederate states of America 20) Proposed an amendment that allowed slavery in the western territories south of the Missouri compromise. He also proposed reimbursing slave owners for fugitive slaves . The congress made a compromise of this that is called the Crittenden compromise 21) The first election to have a Republican Party . Running for office was John C. Fremont,Millard Fillmore, and James Buchanan who wins22) Signed a treaty in 1854 that opened up trading between the US and Japan 23) John brown executed 5 pro slavery supporters 24) Name given to Kansas during the violent acts 27) 1848 everyone rushed to California in search of gold Across: 5) Believed in freedom for all men , wanted to stop slavery from spreading into the western territory 10) Douglass and Lincoln debated about their views on slavery to see who would get a seat in the US Senate . They had seven debates 13) transportation company in Boston, Massachusetts created to transport immigrants to the Kansas Territory to shift the balance of power so that Kansas would enter the United States as a free state rather than a slave state Created by Eli Thayer in the wake of the Kansas-Nebraska Act14) Wrote the book Uncle Tom's Cabin which is an anti slavery novel 15) A New Yorker who went to Lawrence KS to kill pro slavery supporters 16) the most valuable deposit of silver ore ever recorded, discovered in 1859 by Henry T. P. Comstock near Virginia City, Nevada.25) A document written in 1854 that explains why Cuba's purchase from Spain is important to America. Stating that if Mexico didn't agree there would be war 26) Said that runaway slaves must be returned to their masters 28) Position taken by the Abolitionists would not accept any compromise slavery was to end immediately , save owners were not to be compensated 29) Wanted to seize the federal arsenal (where guns are kept) take guns and ammunition and start a slave revolt in Harpers ferry, VA 30) Pro slavery extremists in the south who threatened to secede from the union if they're demands were not met31) 1857 Supreme Court case where Dred Scott a slave who sued for his freedom . He said that his master took him to a state where slavery was outlawed. The court ruled against him. 32) Argued that the morality of Gods higher law was more important than popular sovereignty or national unity 33) 1854. Supported slavery expansion , making Kansas a slave state and Nebraska a free state
 

 

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