GA Studies

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Across
  1. 2. an older slave that a plantation owner thought was loyal and who supervised other slaves
  2. 4. the idea of voiding and following national laws within a state
  3. 9. legislation passed by Congress by which California entered the Union as a free state, slave trading was ended in the District of Columbia, Texas gave up its claims to New Mexico in exchange for money, residents of the territories of New Mexico and Utah would be able to determine whether they wanted slavery, and a stronger Fugitive Slave Act was enacted
  4. 11. the idea that slavery should not be interfered with where it already existed and that the national government had the right to keep it from spreading into new territories
  5. 12. farm-centered
  6. 13. city-centered
  7. 14. a state that allowed slavery
  8. 17. a series of roads, houses, river crossings, and people who helped southern slaves, mainly from border states, escape to the north
  9. 19. the belief that the US was destined to expand from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean
  10. 20. extreme loyalty given to a particular region in the belief that their ideas and interests must be protected from other regions
  11. 21. one who wants to do away with something particularly slavery in the 1800s
  12. 22. the period before the Civil War
Down
  1. 1. free states and slave states which shared borders
  2. 3. a document issued by a state convention in 1850 but agreed to resist if the north did not live up to its obligations or if it hindered slavery
  3. 5. 1854 legislation that created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska and that contained a clause on popular sovereignty that negated the Compromise
  4. 6. the ability of the residents of an area to decide upon an issue, such as whether they would allow slavery
  5. 7. legislation passed by Congress in 1820 by which Maine entered the Union as a free state, Missouri entered the Union as a slave state, and slavery was prohibited north of the southern border of Missouri
  6. 8. setting a fire
  7. 10. a state that did not allow slavery
  8. 15. to add on, such as adding territory to an existing town, city, or state
  9. 16. a tax on imported goods
  10. 18. the belief that all powers not specifically given to the national government in the US Constitution or specially denied to the states remain with the states