Unit 11 Vocab Part 1 Crossword

The idea that the government authority comes from the people
an act of Congress (1820) by which Missouri was admitted as a slave state, Maine as a free state, and slavery was prohibited in the Louisiana Purchase
proposal made in 1846 to prohibit slavery in the territory added to the united states as a result of the Mexican-American war
excessive regard for sectional or local interests; regional or local spirit, prejudice, etc.
a former u.s. political party (1848-56) that opposed the extention of slavery in the territories not amitted
to withdraw formally from an alliance, federation, or association, as from a political union, a religious organization, etc.
A novel, first published serially, by Harriet Beecher Stowe; it paints a grim picture of life under slavery.
A set of laws, passed in the midst of fierce wrangling between groups favoring slavery and groups opposing it, that attempted to give something to both sides.
a law passed as part of the compromise of 1850 which provided southern slaveholders with legal weapons to capture slaves who had escaped to the free states
act passed in 1854 that created the Kansa and Nebraska territories and abolished the Missouri compromise by allowing settlers to determine whether slavery would be allowed in the new territories
, murder of five men from a proslavery settlement on Pottawatomie Creek,
one of two main political parties in the united states
A nation existing from 1861-1865, consisting of the eleven Southern states who sought independence from the United States of America over the issue of slavery and states' rights.