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Down: 1)  A pro-slavery constitution submitted to the voters of Kansas in 1857 which was rejected by more than 100,000 votes.3) He came to observe America and wrote Democracy in America, an account of the strengths and weaknesses of the American democratic system.5) This abolitionist and escaped slave, nicknamed the "Black Moses", conducted hundreds of slaves to freedom through the Underground Railroad.6) This reformer from the South worked for the abolition of slavery and the struggle for equal rights for women.7) A futile last-minute attempt to postpone the breakup of the Union by guaranteeing slavery in the South and simultaneously reinstating the Missouri Compromise line. Lincoln refused to accept these proposals. 11) The belief in the political, religious, and cultural superiority of American civilization, giving Americans an inherent right to the continent and "true title" to its lands.13) This proposal prohibited slavery in all the territories obtained from Mexico and forced Congress to confront the slavery issue in succeeding administrations.15) The founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.16) This American educator and reformer revolutionized public school organization and teaching. Across: 2) This author and naturalist influenced American thought by his individualism and opposition to conformity and materialism. His most famous work, Walden, described his solitary coexistence with nature.4) A controversial Supreme Court case that angered abolitionists by declaring that slaves were not citizens and could not claim their freedom even in Northern states.8) A series of measures by which Congress attempted to resolve the intensified conflict over slavery following the war with Mexico.9) A former president who ran as the first candidate of the Free Soil Party.10) A leading 19c African American abolitionist who escaped from slavery and founded and edited The North Star.12) The demand of western expansionists that Britain yield all of the Oregon territory to the United States.14) This document urged lower-class southern whites to resist planter dominance and abolish slavery in their own best interests.15) He led American settlers in California to revolt against the Mexican authorities there. He later became a presidential candidate in 1856.17) The doctrine that left the decision whether a state would enter the Union slave or free up to the territorial legislature representing the people of that territory.18) A fanatical American abolitionist, he led an armed band that seized the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, VA, hoping to set off a general slave revolt.19) The belief of New England intellectuals that the truths found beyond sense experience in intuition and nature would bring people to self-knowledge and self-reliance and ultimately to the attempted reformation of themselves and society.
 

 

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