Chapter 10: Growing Sectionalism & the Experiences of Enslaved People

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Across
  1. 1. to make something invalid or no longer legal and binding
  2. 3. a tax that is placed on goods brought into one country from another
  3. 5. known as the “Great Compromiser,” argued for the American System as Speaker of the House; one of the authors of the Compromise of 1850
  4. 8. Congress accepted Missouri as a slave state; Maine was admitted as a free state; Congress drew a boundary across the remainder of the Louisiana Purchase, determining the free areas north and the slave regions to the south
  5. 12. the US Supreme Court Justice during North Carolina v. Mann
  6. 13. a violent northerner who opposed slavery; led a raid at Harper’s Ferry in the hopes of starting a large scale slave revolt; captured and sentenced to death
  7. 14. someone who suffers, or even dies, for their beliefs
  8. 15. an enslaved man and preacher who led one of the most significant and deadly revolts against slavery in Virginia; was later captured and executed
  9. 16. a good or service brought into one country from another
  10. 17. the expression of formal disapproval
  11. 19. Republican candidate for Illinois Senate seat in 1858; participated in public debates with Stephen A. Douglas; lost the election but gained national recognition
  12. 20. a system of government in which power is shared between the central and smaller regional or state governments
  13. 21. allowed people “held to service or labor” to be returned to the place from which they escaped
  14. 23. Democrat candidate for Illinois Senate seat in 1858; participated in public debates with Abraham Lincoln; won the election of 1858
  15. 24. the act passed by Congress to make it illegal to bring enslaved people into the United States from other countries
  16. 25. ideas or policies supported by a political party in an election
Down
  1. 1. established the procedures for governing new territories and specified how territories could become states; applied to the first new territory the United States acquired; outlawed slavery in this territory
  2. 2. a violent uprising against an authority
  3. 4. the Vice President of the United States during the Nullification Crisis; he publicly stated his disapproval of the actions of the federal government
  4. 6. the idea that government authority comes from people who have agreed to be governed
  5. 7. the federal government passed tariffs to benefit northern industries which angered southern states; federal government was given permission to collect the tariff by force; Congress eventually lowered the tariffs to appease the south
  6. 9. proposed by Stephen Douglas to split the land into two territories, each territory allowed to allow slavery based on popular sovereignty
  7. 10. the rights and powers held by individual US states rather than by the federal government
  8. 11. the temporary owner of a slave who was put on trial for his treatment of the slave; the US Supreme Court eventually sided with him, further acknowledging that slaves are seen as “property”
  9. 18. within one’s own country
  10. 22. a good or service sold to another country