Chapter 7 Antebellum Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 4. - Actions that deny people their rights because of prejudice
  2. 5. - A person responsible for assigning work and supervising slaves
  3. 6. Sovereignty - The right of people living in a territory to decide whether to be a free or slave state
  4. 9. States - States that permitted slavery
  5. 10. - The period before the Civil War
  6. 13. - When people in one area think their ideas are correct or more important than those of another area
  7. 14. States of America - The name of the government formed by the southern states in 1861 when they seceded from the Union
  8. 17. States - States that did not permit slavery
Down
  1. 1. - People who worked to abolish slavery
  2. 2. - An arms storehouse
  3. 3. Code - A set of laws that defined social, economic, an physical limitations placed on slaves
  4. 7. Railroad - Network of homes, farms, and churches from the South to the North and Canada where runaway slaves could rest and hide from slave catchers
  5. 8. - The act of pulling or breaking away
  6. 11. Rights - The idea that powers not given to the federal government in the Constitution belong to each state
  7. 12. - A slave placed in charge of other slaves
  8. 15. - A tax on imported goods
  9. 16. Soilers - People who did not want slavery extended into western territories