1815 Crossword puzzle
Across
- 3. one's own territory by appropriation.
- 6. states that have slaves
- 7. Life Among the Lowly, is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe.
- 9. in the united states consitutional history is a legal theory that a state the right to nullify
- 11. s a package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress in September 1850
- 12. is the principle that the authority of a state and its government are created and sustained by the consent of its people,
- 13. was a network of secret routes and safe houses established in the United States during the early to mid-19th century
- 15. led the slaves to the underground railroad
- 16. existing before a war
- 18. beleved that slavery was a sin
Down
- 1. It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders.
- 2. restriction of interst to a narrow sphere
- 4. a person who oversees and urges on slaves at work
- 5. a system of labor under slavery characteristics in the americans
- 8. an effort by congress to defuse the sectional and political rivalries triggered by the request of Missourilate in 1819 for admission as a state in which slavery would be permitted
- 10. an American abolitionist newspaper founded by William Lloyd Garrison and Isaac Knapp
- 14. a state that has prohibited slaves
- 17. the criminal act of deliberately setting fire to property