Americans Work for Reform

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Across
  1. 1. This reformer worked towards ending slavery and published a popular newspaper called, The Liberator
  2. 3. To formally withdraw from or leave the United States of America
  3. 4. A runaway or an escapee, such as a slave in the 1800’s
  4. 7. People who wanted to end slavery in the United States
  5. 9. Shutting off a port with ships to prevent people or supplied from moving in or out of the area
  6. 10. The United States of America; the Northern states during the American Civil War, also known as “the North”
  7. 11. A war between people of the same country
  8. 13. Loyalty to a state or section/region of a country rather than the nation as a whole; or concerns for the interests of a certain region or area
  9. 16. The practice of holding a person in bondage for labor
  10. 17. To set free
  11. 18. Four slave states (Missouri, Kentucky, Delaware, and Maryland) located on the line between the Union and the Confederacy that did not secede, but stayed in the Union during the Civil War
Down
  1. 2. Makes a living by having factories with people working in the factories
  2. 3. This reformer worked towards women’s rights and was the main author of the Declaration of Sentiments.
  3. 5. A secret network of people and routes who helped runaway slaves to escape slavery and reach freedom in the North or Canada
  4. 6. This Convention took place in New York State. While there, the members wrote the Declaration of Sentiments, a step towards women’s rights.
  5. 8. The nation formed by the eleven states that seceded from the United States in 1860 - 1861, forming the Confederate States of America, also known as “the South”
  6. 12. This reformer worked towards abolition. He wrote an autobiography and published an anti-slavery newspaper called, The North Star
  7. 14. This reformer led many slaves towards freedom on the Underground Railroad. She would free about 70 slaves.
  8. 15. Makes a living by farming, raising livestock or producing crops