History vocabulary crossword— Owen wells

A name applied to the Kansas territory in the years before the civil war
A series of congressional measures intended to settle the major disagreements between free states and slave states
The confederate state of America, a confederation formed in 1861 by the southern states after their secession from the union
A political party formed in 1848 to oppose the extension of slavery into u.s. territories
The idea, expressed by Stephen doubles in 1858, that any territory could exclude slavery by simply refusing to pass laws supporting it
A law enacted as part of the compromise of 1850, designed to ensure that escaped slaves would be returned into bondage
A law enacted in 1854 that established the territories of Kansas and Nebraska and gave their residents the right to decide weather to allow slavery or not
A name given to the American party, formed in the 1850s to curtail the political influence of immagrants
Favoring the interests of native-born people over foreign born people
Statutes, passed in nine northern states in the 1850s that forbade the imprisonment of runaway slaves
A system in which the residents vote to decide an issue
The modern political party that was formed in 1854 by opponents of slavery in the territories
The formal withdrawal of a state from the union
A best selling novel by Harriet Beecher
A system of routes along which runaway slaves were helped to escape to Canada or to safe areas in the free states
An admendment to an 1846 military appropriations bill, proposing that none of the territory acquired in the war with Mexico would be open to slavery