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Across 2. A law that made it a crime to help runaway slaves and people were required to return them to slaveholders 3. a novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe which portrayed slavery as brutal and immoral 5. Political party of the 1850s that was anti-Catholic and anti-immigrant 6. concern with the distinction between good and evil or right and wrong 9. hostility, active opposition 10. abolitionist newspaper publisher 12. Abolitionist who was hanged after leading an unsuccessful raid at Harper's Ferry, Virginia (1800-1858) 13. Antislavery political party that formed in the 1850's. 14. The 15th President of the United States - He tried to maintain a balance between proslavery and antislavery factions. 15. To describe the character and qualities of someone or something

Down 1. Laws passed by Northern states forbidding the imprisonment of escaped slaves 4. A policy of favoring native-born individuals over foreign-born ones 7. Explorer who helped overthrow the Mexican government in California after the outbreak of war 8. A political party dedicated to stopping the expansion of slavery 11. to give in to a wish or desire