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Across 4. To separate from a nation or state and become independent 9. To set apart or separate. 12. An enslaved person who sued for his freedom. 14. To place a burden on someone or something. 16. Illinois Senator who favored the Kansas-Nebraska Act 20. Senator from South Carolina who lead the opposition to the Missouri Compromise. 21. A war between opposing groups of people within the same country. 22. To hold tightly or readily accept. 23. An adjustment or adaptation. 24. Daughter of an abolitionist minister who wrote the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin. 25. An argument that involves many people who strongly disagree about something.

Down 1. A difficult or dangerous situation that needs serious attention. 2. To keep from happening or to take away by force or intent. 3. A person who wants to destroy slavery. 5. Chief Supreme Court justice who ruled against Dred Scott. 6. A person who is running away to avoid being captured 7. An anti-slavery settler from Connecticut who led several violent attacks on pro-slavery forces. 8. A way of reaching an agreement in which each person or group in the dispute gives up part of what they want to get part of what they want. 10. A law that allowed for people in a territory or state to vote directly on an issue rather than their elected representatives 11. A law that allowed Maine to be admitted as a free state while Missouri entered as a slave state 13. false or misleading information that is spread to further a cause. 15. Senator from Massachusetts who argued in favor of compromise to preserve the union. 17. Senator from Kentucky who proposed the Missouri Compromise 18. An Illinois lawyer who quickly became the central figure in the fight against slavery. 19. To make the meaning of something clear and understandable.