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5. a tax or duty to be paid on a particular class of imports or exports
6. referring to actions or activities performed in an impromptu way, often without authorization
9. any of the southern states of the US in which slavery was legal before the Civil War
10. not helping or supporting either side in a conflict, disagreement, etc.; impartial
11. the position of protecting or defending something
13. the compromise that consists of five laws passed in September of 1850 that dealt with the issue of slavery and territorial expansion

1. in the American Civil War, the government of 11 Southern states that seceded from the Union in 1860–61, carrying on all the affairs of a separate government and conducting a major war until defeated in the spring of 1865
2. the resistance to enslavement through escape and flight, through the end of the Civil War—refers to the efforts of enslaved African Americans to gain their freedom by escaping bondage
3. the rights and powers held by individual US states rather than by the federal government
4. in U.S. history, a controversial political doctrine according to which the people of federal territories should decide for themselves whether their territories would enter the Union as free or slave states
7. (before the Civil War) a state of the US in which slavery was illegal
8. a person who favors the abolition of a practice or institution, especially capital punishment or (formerly) slavery
12. to withdraw from an organization (such as a religious communion or political party or federation)