Chapter 10 Vocab Crossword

A name applied to the Kansas territory in the years before the Civil War, when the territory was a battleground between pros Laverty and antislavery forces
A series of congressional measures intended to settle the major disagreements between free states and slave states
The confederate states of America, a confederation formed in 1861 by the southern states after their succession from the union.
A 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 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 whether to allow slavery
A name given to the American party, formed in the 1850s to curtail the political influence of immigrants
Favoring the interests of native-born people over foreign-born people
Statutes, passed in nine Northern States in the 1850s, that forbade the imprisionment of runaway slaves and guaranteed jury trials for fugitive 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 from a state from the union.
A best selling novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe, published in 1852, the portrayed slavery as a great moral evil
A system of routes along which runaway slaves were helped to escape from Canada or to safe area in free states
An amendment to an 1846 military appropriations bill, proposing that none of the territory acquired in the war with Mexico would be open to slavery