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New Political Parties

Name: _____________________   Period: ____
Across
The Democrats chose this person because Franklin Pierce and Senator Douglas could not get the presidential nomination for 1856 because they supported the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
Buchanan proved to be much more popular than this man in the South during the election of 1856.
When Mrs. Emerson had moved to Massachusetts and remarried, she gave the Scotts to her brother John __________.
The northern Whigs who did not join the Nativist Party" joined another new organization called the ___________ Party.
Dred Scott was a complicated case that was shuttled from one court to another in this state.
The Republican platform (political ideas) were simple. They wanted to keep slavery out of _________ territories.
The Dred Scott decision was "greeted with a storm of __________".
The Republicans nominated this person for the election of 1856 who was also called "the Pathfinder".
Down
He was the Chief Justice who ruled against Dred Scott saying Scott had none of the rights and privileges of citizens in the United States.
This is a person who favors strict controls on the admission of foreigners into the United States.
90 percent of these new citizens became Democrats after they immigrated to the United States.
When John Emerson was transferred to Fort Snelling, a post in the western part of Wisconsin Territory, Dred Scott met and married this woman.
This important Supreme Court case caused a new crisis before Buchanan had a chance to demonstrate his abilities as president. (two words)
Chief Justice Roger B. Taney's argument ran as follows: "Slaves were ___________".
In 1833, Dred Scott had been purchased by this army doctor in St. Louis.
The controversy over this issue became a major issue in the Western territories.