Chapter 10 Vocabulary Crossword

Designed to ensure escaped slaves would be returned into bondage
Established the territories of Kansas and Nebraska and gave their residents the right to whether to allow slavery
A name given to the American party to curtail the political influence of immigrants
Favoring the interests of native-born people over foreign-born people
Forbade the imprisonment of runaway slaves and ensured a trial
The modern political party that was formed in 1854 by opponents of slavery in the territories
The formal withdrawal of a state from a union
Novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe that portrayed slavery as a great moral evil
A system of routes along which runaway slaves were helped to escape to Canada or Safe areas in free states
Proposed no land acquired in the war of Mexico would be slave states
When the Kansas territory was a battleground between pro and anti slavery forces
Intended to settle the major disagreements between free and slave states
The Confederate States of America, a confederation formed in 1861 by the southern states that seceded from the union
Political party formed in 1848 to oppose the extension of slavery into U.S. territories
The idea expressed by Stephen Douglas in 1858 that any territory could exclude slavery by simply refusing to pass laws supporting it
A series of congressional measures intended to settle the major disagreements between free and slave states