How it all started Crossword

Dealt with: California became a free state, fugitive slave law, abolition of slave trade in D.C. and popular sovereignty.
Written by Harriet Stowe Beecher; goal was to show Northerners how bad slavery was; increased support of abolition
Was the first state to try popular sovereignty; very violent
Created by Stephen Douglas; first attempt to try popular sovereignty; Kansas and Nebraska can choose whether to be free or slave state
Pro-slavery mob attacked anti-slavery town; border ruffians-try to vote for slavery; violence shoed that popular sovereignty failed
Senator Charles Sumner: anti-slavery gave speech criticizing another senator's support of slavery; Senator Preston Brooks: pro-slavery nephew, hits Senator Sumner with a cane; showed that violence broke out everywhere
Dred Scott was enslaved, his owner moved to Wisconsin territory while slavery was illegal there; Scott sued but Supreme Court ruled against Scott; ruling protects slavery in territories and says that blacks aren't protected under the Constitution
Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas running for Senate in Illinois; debate slavery; Douglas commits to idea of popular sovereignty
John Brown was radical white abolitionist; goal was to raid an armory in VA and start a nationwide slave revolt; Brown was hung for treason; leads to increased sectional tension; South began to form militias
Abraham Lincoln-Republican; Joh Breckinridge-Southern Democrat; Stephen Douglas-Northern Democrat; John Bell- Constitutional Union; Lincoln wins; leads to Confederate States of America