Civil War Terms

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Across
  1. 2. people who were hired or legally authorized to hunt down and capture enslaved people who had escaped
  2. 3. a federal law that made it a crime to help runaway slaves
  3. 4. a powerful and influential American politician who earned the nickname "The Great Compromiser"
  4. 5. five separate bills passed by the U.S Congress to temporarily defuse a major political crisis over slavery
  5. 8. aa social reformer in the 19th century who tirelessly advocated for better and more humane treatment for people with mental illness
  6. 11. a U.S foreign policy that opposed European colonialism in the Western Hemisphere
  7. 12. a law passed in 1854 that created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska and let the settlers in each territory decide for themselves whether to allow slavery
  8. 16. a system where people are treated as legal property
  9. 18. a supreme court ruling in 1857 that started African Americans were not citizens therefore could not sue in federal court
  10. 20. the idea that a U.S state has the right to invalidate any federal law it deems unconstitutional
  11. 21. were public sales where enslaved people were sold to the highest bidder
  12. 24. a social movement in the 19th and early 20th centuries that aimed to reduce or completely stop the drinking of alcohol
  13. 25. a machine invented by Eli Whitney in 1793 that quickly and easily separated cotton fibers from their seeds
  14. 26. a radical white abolitionist who believed that violence was the only way to end slavery
  15. 27. a political agreement in the years before the Civil War to keep an equal number of states where slavery was legal and states where it was outlawed
  16. 28. an incredibly popular anti-slavery novel published in 1852 by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Down
  1. 1. a huge Protestant religious revival that swept the U.S in the early 1800s
  2. 3. a powerful writer and speaker who escaped from slavery and became a leader
  3. 6. an enslaved woman who became a powerful public speaker for abolition and woman's right in the 19th century
  4. 7. a deal in 1820 that kept the peace between free and slave states
  5. 9. phrase used in the american south before the Civil War
  6. 10. the act of freeing someone from the control or power of another
  7. 13. the movement to end slavery
  8. 14. a period of violent conflicts in the Kansas Territory from to 1854 to 1861 over whether the new state should be free or allow slavery
  9. 15. a prominent abolitionist and journalist who demanded the immediate and complete end to slavery
  10. 17. conflict fought between the U.s and Mexico from 1846 to 1848
  11. 19. the idea that the power of a government comes from the people
  12. 21. when a region or state formally breaks away from the country or union it belongs to in order to become an independent entity
  13. 22. a secret network of safe houses and routes used by enslaved people in the 19th century
  14. 23. an enslaved woman who escaped to freedom and then risked her life repeatedly to lead other enslaved people to freedom