civil war

4. ________ Kansas — violent fighting over slavery in Kansas Territory
5. ________ Slave Act — a law requiring escaped enslaved people to be returned
7. the belief that states should have more power than the federal government
9. political party formed partly to oppose the spread of slavery
10. the Northern states that stayed together
12. An act that allowed settlers in the new territories of Kansas and Nebraska to use popular sovereignty to decide if slavery would be legal.
15. forcing people to work without freedom or pay
17. when Southern states left the Union

1. A person who strongly supported the immediate elimination of slavery.
2. a large farm where crops were grown using enslaved labor
3. the Southern states that separated from the Union
6. ___________ Railroad — secret routes used to help enslaved people escape
8. a war fought between groups within the same country
11. belief that the U.S. should expand across North America
13. ________ Compromise (1820): Legislation that admitted Missouri to the Union as a slave state and Maine as a free state, maintaining a political balance.
14. a tax on imported goods
16. strong loyalty to one region of the country