lead up to the civil war
Across
- 1. a book talking about slavery written by harriet beecher stowe
- 4. a law that tried to address growing sectional tensions over the issue of slavery
- 5. including Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, and Stephen A. Douglas, reflecting a bipartisan effort to avoid civil war.
- 6. a form of slavery, slaves could be sold, traded,bought
- 7. a doctrine that says All political power is vested in and derived from the people
- 9. a major religious revival movement in united states
- 11. policial to repeal slavery and help the enslaved
- 13. secret routes that would help the enslaved escape into freedom
- 15. free states had to return slaves and could not help escaped slaves or they would be punished
- 17. part of a country or union breaks off and becomes its own.
- 19. auctions where they would sell slaves and trade them in horrible dehuminazing ways.
- 20. African Americans whether enslaved or free, could not be U.S. citizens and therefore had no right to sue in federal court
- 21. a former slave, abolitionist, fought for slave freedom and womens rights
- 22. she was a enslaved women, she fought for women's rights, slavery freedom prison reforment and many other things.
- 23. repealed the missouri compromise
Down
- 2. invasion of mexico by an american army, leads to guadulupe purchace
- 3. there were 11 slave states and 11 free states
- 8. an agriculture product that increased slavery in the south
- 10. machine designed to remove the seeds of of cotton which increased need for slaves.
- 12. that states have the right to declare federal laws unconstitutionaland they do not have to stay on there land only
- 14. being held as an slave as property of the owner
- 16. An american abolitionist, he fought in bleeding kansas
- 18. people who would track down and then return slaves to there owners