Unit 5|SC History 1 Crossword
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
                                                          
 
 
Down: 1) A state's refusal to recognize an act of Congress that it considers unconstitutional2) Southern political leaders who held extreme pro-slavery views.3) A system that helped enslaved African Americans follow a network of escape routes out of the South to freedom in the North5) A government in which the people rule by their own consent.9) (1850) a law that made it a crime to help runaway slaves; allowed for the arrest of escaped slaves in areas where slavery was illegal and required their return to slaveholders11) In 1859, the militant abolitionist John Brown seized the U.S. arsenal at Harper's Ferry. He planned to end slavery by massacring slave owners and freeing their slaves. He was captured and executed.12) Belonging to a period before a war especially the American Civil Wa13) According to the Missouri Compromise (1820), slavery was forbidden in the Louisiana territory north of the 36º30' N latitude. This was nullified by the Kansas-Nebraska Act.14) a novel published by Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1852 which portrayed slavery as brutal and immoral24) Formal withdrawal of states or regions from a nation25) the action or an act of abolishing a system, practice, or institution. Across: 2) People who opposed expansion of slavery into western territories4) (1856) a series of violent fights between pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces in Kansas who had moved to Kansas to try to influence the decision of whether or not Kansas would a slave state or a free state.6) The Chief Justice in the Dred Scott v. Kansas acts; racist; Said Dred Scott was property7) Lincoln, the Republican candidate, won because the Democratic party was split over slavery. As a result, the South no longer felt like it has a voice in politics and a number of states seceded from the Union.8) United States politician responsible for the Missouri Compromise between free and slave states10) United States abolitionist born a slave on a plantation in Maryland and became a famous conductor on the Underground Railroad leading other slaves to freedom in the North (1820-1913) 13) Treaty that ended the Mexican War, granting the U.S. control of Texas, New Mexico, and California in exchange for $15 million15) United States abolitionist who escaped from slavery and became an influential writer and lecturer in the North (1817-1895)16) (1846-1848) The war between the United States and Mexico in which the United States acquired one half of the Mexican territory.17) 1854 - Created Nebraska and Kansas as states and gave the people in those territories the right to chose to be a free or slave state through popular sovereignty.18) (1811-1896) American author and daughter of Lyman Beecher, she was an abolitionist and author of the famous antislavery novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin.19) Illinois senator who introduced the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which allowed new territories to choose their own position on slavery; debated Abraham Lincoln on slavery issues in 185820) (1) California admitted as free state, (2) territorial status and popular sovereignty of Utah and New Mexico, (3) resolution of Texas-New Mexico boundaries, (4) federal assumption of Texas debt, (5) slave trade abolished in DC, and (6) new fugitive slave law; advocated by Henry Clay and Stephen A. Douglas21) After the battle at the Alamo, Texas gains its independence, only to be annexed by the US shortly after. Leading to a land grab for California22) Different parts of the country developing unique and separate cultures (as the North, South and West). This can lead to conflict.23) 1803 purchase of the Louisiana territory from France. Made by Jefferson, this doubled the size of the US.26) 1800s belief that Americans had the right to spread across the continent.27) American slave who sued his master for keeping him enslaved in a territory where slavery was banned under the Missouri Compromise28) South Carolina Senator - advocate for state's rights, limited government, and nullification29) Antislavery political party that formed in the 1850's.30) A compromise line is created dividing free and slave territories
 

 

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