Lead up to the Civil War

5. this was a law passed in 1854 that allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether to allow slavery within their borders
7. this was a time of violent fighting in the 1850s in the territory of Kansas
8. this is a state leaving the country
11. this was a secret system to help enslaved people escape to freedom
12. this was a set of 5 laws made to ease tensions between the North and the South about slavery
13. this was about keeping an equal number of states that allowed slavery and states that didnt
17. this is a movement to end slavery
18. this was a fight between the United States and Mexico from 1846 to 1848
19. this is a state saying "we don't have to follow" a federal law

1. a machine that cleaned cotton by removing seeds
2. this means letting people decide
3. people who hunted down enslaved people who had escaped
4. a religious revival in the early 1800s in the United States
6. this was a law passed in 1820 to keep peace between the free states and slave states
9. this was a law that said escaped enslaved people had to be returned to their owners
10. this was a U.S. politician known for trying to keep the country together during fights over slavery and states rights
14. events where enslaved people were sold to the highest bidder
15. this was an african american woman who escaped slavery and then helped others escape too
16. setting someone free from slavery
20. slavery this is treating enslaved people as property, not as human beings