Abolitionism Crossword
Across
- 2. an American abolitionist leader. First reaching national prominence for his radical abolitionism and fighting in Bleeding Kansas
- 3. is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe
- 6. this act repealed the Missouri Compromise, created two
- 8. an exaggerated devotion to the interests of a region over those of a country as a whole.
- 9. Pro slavery raiders, that crossed from Missouri into Kansas to ensure it became a slave state.
- 10. a prominent American Christian, abolitionist, journalist, suffragist, and social reformer.
- 14. the fifth chief justice of the United States
- 15. She was an American author and abolitionist
- 18. an African American social activist that went on 13 missions to rescue approximately 70 slaves
- 19. This act required that slaves he returned to their owners, even if they were in a free state
- 21. a network of clandestine routes and safe houses for slaves to escape to free states
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- 1. A series of violent civil confrontations in Kansas.
- 4. This legislation admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a non-slave State at the same time
- 5. The fugitive slave act was amended and the slave trade In Washington D.C. was abolished
- 7. an American lawyer and statesman who served as the 16th president of the United States
- 11. is a short lived coalition political republican party that was absolved into the Republican Party and that was opposed to the expansion of slavery.
- 12. Scottv.Sanford1857 a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court that held that the United States Constitution was not meant to include American citizenship for people of black African descent
- 13. territories, and allowed for popular sovereignty.
- 16. is a movement to end slavery
- 17. an anti-slavery newspaper
- 20. an African American reformer, abolitionists, writer, and statesman that escaped slavery in Maryland