Civil war

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  1. 2. individuals or groups employed to track down and return escaped enslaved people to their owners
  2. 3. slaves be returned to their owners, even if they were in a free state.
  3. 4. unsuccessfully ran for president in the 1824, 1832, and 1844 elections.
  4. 5. laws passed by the U.S. Congress to settle disputes over slavery and territorial expansion
  5. 8. 19th-century American social reformer and humanitarian
  6. 11. S. foreign policy, articulated in 1823, that opposed European colonialism and interference in the Western Hemisphere
  7. 12. five laws passed by the U.S. Congress to settle disputes over slavery and territorial expansion
  8. 16. system where enslaved people are treated as the personal property of their owners,
  9. 18. declared that African Americans were not citizens and had no rights that white Americans were bound to respect
  10. 20. the theory that a state can declare a federal law unconstitutional and refuse to enforce it within its borders
  11. 21. Slave auctions were a historical mechanism for the trade of enslaved people in various parts of the world, including the United States, Europe, and Central Asia
  12. 24. a social, political, and religious movement that advocated for the reduction or elimination of alcohol consumption, culminating in the Prohibition era in the United States
  13. 25. a machine that quickly separates cotton fibers from their seeds,
  14. 26. abolitionist in the decades preceding the Civil War
  15. 27. the political and legislative effort to maintain an equal number of states that allowed slavery and states that did not
  16. 28. Life Among the Lowly is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe.
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  1. 1. a religious revival during the late 18th to early 19th century in the United States.
  2. 3. an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman.
  3. 6. an American abolitionist, journalist, and social reformer
  4. 7. entered as slave state, Maine enter as free state
  5. 9. the dominant role of cotton in the pre-Civil War Southern economy, politics, and society
  6. 10. the act of freeing someone from legal or social control
  7. 13. movement to end slavery
  8. 14. a period of violent guerrilla warfare in the Kansas Territory from 1854 to 1861,
  9. 15. best known for his widely read anti-slavery newspaper The Liberato
  10. 17. was an invasion of Mexico by the United States
  11. 19. the principle that the government's authority comes from its people, who are the source of all political power
  12. 21. the formal withdrawal of a group from a larger political entit
  13. 22. a network of secret routes and safe houses used by enslaved African Americans to escape to free states and Canada
  14. 23. After escaping slavery, Tubman made some 13 missions to rescue approximately 70 enslaved people, including her family and friends