civil war crossword puzzle

A zealous, itinerant radical who crusaded violently against slavery in the 1850s.
A former Senator from Mississippi who was selected as the first president of the Confederacy in 1861.
The Union’s top general in the Civil War, who went on to become the eighteenth U.S. president.
sixteenth president of the United States in the election of 1860.
A violent crisis that enveloped Kansas after Congress passed the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854
A bundle of legislation that enabled the North and South to end, temporarily, the debate over the expansion of slavery. First proposed by Henry Clay and championed by Stephen Douglas
A party formed by disgruntled Northern abolitionists in 1848,
law passed under the Compromise of 1850 that forced Northerners to return runaway slaves to the South.
aid by John Brown, the infamous Free-Soiler who had killed five proslavery men at the Pottawatomie Massacre. This time around, Brown stormed an arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia (present-day West Virginia), with twenty other men.
The idea that citizens in the West should vote to determine whether their respective territories would become free states or slave states upon admission to the Union.
A novel, published by Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1852, that turned Northern public opinion against slavery and the South more than anything else in the decade before the Civil War.