Chapter 14 Vocab quiz

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Across
  1. 6. An armed supporter of slavery who crossed the border from Missouri to vote in Kansas during the mid 1850’s
  2. 8. This event happened 8/1858-10/1858 in Illinois to discuss slavery, popular sovereignty, and whether a territory could exclude slavery before becoming a state.
  3. 9. The concern about reformism which led southerners to ensure a strong run away slave law.
  4. 12. The system of cooperation to aid and house the enslaved people who had escaped their owners in the upper south may have received aid in a network of safe houses.
  5. 15. 1854 an act was passed that repealed the Missouri compromise.
  6. 16. This event marked the beginning of the civil war. It was located on an island guarding Charleston Harbor.
  7. 17. The “African Americans and whites” had put together an interconnected system called the underground railroad.
  8. 18. Harret Beecher Stowe moved to Cincinnati and saw enslaved people being taken to markets, her and her husband and children helped write a book exploiting the cruel system to slavery.
  9. 19. Rights The ideology that the states should have all the power that the constitution does not impose on the federal government or forbid on the states, the theory that the individual states are independent and have the right to control their most important affairs.
  10. 21. The decree Passed on September 18, 1850 by Congress which required that slaves be returned to their owners even if they were in a free state, this decree also made the federal government responsible for finding, returning escaped slaves.
  11. 22. Conflict and division between regions of the United States, specifically regarding issues like slavery, economics, and political power. This was a significant factor that led up to the civil war.
  12. 24. The idea which is central to the American system of government, this means that the people are the source to the government's power.
Down
  1. 1. To provide the explanation of something and to find reasonings to support your claim.
  2. 2. The settlement of 1820 which preserved the balance between slave and free states.
  3. 3. An agreement reached during the 1787 United States Constitutional Convention over the inclusion of slaves in a state's total population for legislative representation and taxation, they determined that three out of every five slaves would be counted when determining the total state population .
  4. 4. Southern leaders debated a withdrawal from the union while congress members tried to prevent it.
  5. 5. 10/16/1859 abolitionists John Brown led a raid on Harper’s ferry Virginia his target was a federal storage site for weapons.
  6. 7. Was a short lived political party that had taken place in the U.S. in 1848-1854 that turned into a Republican Party that opposed the expansion of slavery in western territories in the U.S.
  7. 10. 5/1856 slave supporters attacked Laurence town which was an anti slavery stronghold, John Brown led an attack that killed 5 supporters of slavery, this was a civil war between citizens this event was called _______.
  8. 11. Southerners protested wanting the new territory to remain open to slavery so John C. Calhoun offered that neither congress nor any other territorial government could ban slavery or ______.
  9. 13. The original boundary between Maryland and Pennsylvania in the United States surveyed during 1763-1767
  10. 14. James Silk Buckingham wrote a book in the 1840’s, this book had described and criticized the American south.
  11. 16. During the civil war era states opposed the expansion of slavery into new territories, the northern part of the U.S. were slave free but the expansion of slavery into new territory's cause lots of tension leading up to the civil war.
  12. 19. Anti slavery groups had wanted to ban slavery in Washington D.C. southerners talked about ______ the union.
  13. 20. Internal conflict caused by disagreements between the citizens and the government of the same country.
  14. 23. Federal troops declared a death sentence on Brown, his hanging shook antislavery northerners rejecting his violence while others saw it as a _______.