Chapter 10 crossword puzzle

proposed an American law to ban slavery in territory acquired from Mexico in the Mexican War.
the Border War was a series of violent confrontations in the United States between 1854 and 1861 which emerged from a political and ideological debate over the legality of slavery in the proposed state of Kansas.
were laws passed by several U.S. states in the North to counter the Fugitive Slave Acts of 1793 and 1850.
A network of houses and other places that abolitionists used to help slaves escape to freedom in the northern states or in Canada before the Civil War.
the people's rule is the principle that the authority of a state and its government is created and sustained by the consent of its people, through their elected representatives
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.
the policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants.
was a short-lived political party in the United States active in the 1848 and 1852 presidential elections as well as in some state elections.
was an American abolitionist
was an American abolitionist who believed in and advocated armed insurrection as the only way to overthrow the institution of slavery in the United States.
Life Among the Lowly, is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852
was the 13th President of the United States
in an attempt to seek a compromise and avert a crisis between North and South.
the action of withdrawing formally from membership of a federation or body, especially a political state.
was the 15th president of the United States, serving immediately prior to the American Civil War.
The Native American Party, renamed the American Party in 1855