Lead up to the Civil War

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Across
  1. 2. An agreement proposed by Henry Clay that allowed Missouri to enter the union as a slave state and Maine enter as a free state
  2. 9. Secret network
  3. 12. War with Mexico which began in 1846 when the U.S. annexed Texas and Mexico challenged the Border
  4. 13. Machine that separates cotton seeds from cotton fiber
  5. 15. Strong supporter of the American System
  6. 16. The act is that slaves be returned to their owners, even if they were in a free state
  7. 17. Five laws
Down
  1. 1. Principle that the authority of a government comes from its people
  2. 3. Leading figure in the abolitionist movement in the pre-Civil war
  3. 4. African Americans were not citizens and therefore could not sue in federal court
  4. 5. Act of freeing enslaved people
  5. 6. Political movement to end slavery and liberate enslaved individuals around the world
  6. 7. Formal withdrawal
  7. 8. Most important leader of the movement for African American civil rights in the 19th century
  8. 9. Anti-slavery
  9. 10. Period of violent conflict in the Kansas Territory between pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers
  10. 11. Dominant economic and political power of cotton production in the Southern United States before the Civil War
  11. 14. Legal theory that a state has the right to declare a federal law unconstitutional and therefore void