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Across
defused a four-year political confrontation between slave and free states on the status of territories acquired during the Mexican–American War (1846–1848).
a statement executed by a Georgia Convention in Milledgeville, Georgia on December 10, 1850 in response to the Compromise of 1850.
the practice or system of owning slaves.
an effort to preserve the balance of power in Congress between slave and free states.
restriction of interest to a narrow sphere; undue concern with local interests or petty distinctions at the expense of general well-being.
the act of cancelling something.
the action of withdrawing formally from membership of a federation or body, especially a political state.
Down
(before the Civil War) a state of the US in which slavery was illegal.
was an American politician who served as the Vice President of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War.
a tax or duty to be paid on a particular class of imports or exports.
American presidential election held on Nov. 6, 1860, in which Republican Abraham Lincoln defeated Southern Democrat John C. Breckinridge, Democrat Stephen A. Douglas, and Constitutional Union candidate John Bell.
the rights and powers held by individual US states rather than by the federal government.
a slave, sought to be declared a free man on the basis that he had lived for a time in a “free” territory with his master.
any of the southern states of the US in which slavery was legal before the Civil War.