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Dividing Nation and Countdown to War Review Puzzle

Horizontales
Passed by Congress forcing Northerners to help return runaway slaves
Man who believed the slavery issue had already been settled and who saw no reason why the nation could not go on half-slave and half-free
Idea in the Compromise of 1850 which allowed people in the Utah Territory and New Mexico Territory to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery
Author of a book published in 1852 which depicted the harsh realities of slavery
Admitted as a free state as a result of the Missouri Compromise
Man who was a violent abolitionist
First state to secede from the Union
Verticales
Split the Louisiana Territory along the 36°30' latitude line; all states formed north of the line would be free states and slavery would be permitted in new states south of the line
Weapon Preston Brooks used when he attacked Charles Sumner in the Senate Chamber
The Civil War began when Confederates fired on this in South Carolina
Abraham Lincoln was a member of this newly formed political party
Replaced the Missouri Compromise and allowed people to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery
The famous Lincoln-Douglas debates on slavery occurred during the race for this government position
Man who argued that slavery was a moral issue, not a legal one
Second best-selling book of the 19th century which turned millions of people against slavery
Southern Democratic Party candidate in the Election of 1860 who won a majority of the states in the South but lost the election
Missouri slave who went to court to sue for his freedom
The Compromise of 1850 said slaves could no longer be bought or sold in this city
Ruled in the Dred Scott case that banning slavery in a territory was unconstitutional
Admitted as a slave state as a result of the Missouri Compromise