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  1. 2. Northwest Ordinance Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions End of Atlantic slave trade Missouri Compromise Tariff of Abominations Nat Turner's Rebellion Nullification crisis
  2. 4. was an American lawyer and statesman
  3. 11. Dred Scott v. Sandford, 60 U.S. 393, was a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court that held the U.S. Constitution did not extend American citizenship to people of black African descent, and therefore they could not enjoy the rights and privileges the Constitution conferred upon American citizens.
  4. 14. Frederick Douglass was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman.
  5. 16. was an American abolitionist and activist for African-American civil rights
  6. 18. selling slaves
  7. 19. was an invasion of Mexico by the United States Army.
  8. 20. The Second Great Awakening was a Protestant religious revival during the late 18th to early 19th century in the United States. It spread religion through revivals and emotional preaching and sparked a number of schismatic movements.
  9. 22. Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in two volumes in 1852, the novel had a profound effect on attitudes toward African Americans and slavery in the U.S., and is said to have "helped lay the groundwork for the American Civil War"
  10. 23. a system where enslaved individuals are treated as personal property, or "chattel," that can be bought, sold, inherited, and traded.
  11. 24. was an American abolitionist in the decades preceding the Civil War.
  12. 26. was an invasion of Mexico by the United States Army.
  13. 29. a social movement in the 19th and early 20th centuries
  14. 30. american nurse
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  1. 1. a network of secret routes, safe houses, and abolitionists that helped tens of thousands of enslaved people escape from the South to freedom in the Northern states and Canada
  2. 3. a series of laws passed to defuse tensions between slave and free states
  3. 5. cought slaves
  4. 6. the action of withdrawing formally from membership of a federation or body, especially a political state.
  5. 7. a legal theory that states can refuse to enforce federal laws they consider unconstitutional.
  6. 8. a 1820 agreement that admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state
  7. 9. the political and social equilibrium between Northern and Southern states, where an equal number of free and slave states was crucial for maintaining power in the U.S. Senate.
  8. 10. was an American abolitionist in the decades preceding the Civil War.
  9. 12. the principle that the authority of a government comes from the people, who exercise their power either directly or through elected representatives
  10. 13. repealed the Missouri Compromise, organized the Kansas and Nebraska territories from the Louisiana Purchase
  11. 15. the social and political movement to end slavery and the slave trade, advocating for the freedom and rights of enslaved people
  12. 17. the act of freeing someone from another's control
  13. 21. William Lloyd Garrison was an American abolitionist, journalist, and social reformer.
  14. 25. us policy
  15. 27. lead slaves through the underground railroad
  16. 28. machine used to separate the seeds, hulls, and other impurities from cotton fibers