Lead up to the Civil War

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  1. 2. He spread religion through revivals and emotional preaching, and unleashed several schismatic movements.
  2. 3. A system where individuals are treated as personal property that can be bought, sold, and inherited, stripping them of all legal rights and dehumanizing them
  3. 6. A public and dehumanizing process of selling enslaved people as property.
  4. 8. Was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman.
  5. 14. is a cornerstone of U.S. foreign policy that warned European powers against further colonization or interference in the Western Hemisphere.
  6. 15. Confirmed slavery in the American territories, denied the legality of black citizenship in the United States, and declared the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional.
  7. 17. The political and social balance between the Northern and Southern states, where an equal number of free and slave states, was crucial to maintaining power in the United States Senate.
  8. 22. Allowed the capture and return of fugitive enslaved persons
  9. 24. Was an American abolitionist and social activist.
  10. 25. People employed to track down and return runaway slaves to their owners.
  11. 28. The theory that states have the right to void federal laws they deem unconstitutional
  12. 29. He repealed the Missouri Compromise, organized the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, and applied the principle of popular sovereignty to allow settlers to decide on the legality of slavery.
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  1. 1. It was a period of violent conflict from 1854 to 1859 between slaveholders and antislavery settlers in the Kansas Territory
  2. 4. It was a social movement that promoted the reduction or elimination of alcohol consumption.
  3. 5. Compromise An agruculture products that increased alavery in the South.
  4. 7. Was an American abolitionist, journalist, and social reformer.
  5. 9. An American social reformer and an advocate for the mentally ill.
  6. 10. The action of formally withdrawing from membership in a federation or body, especially a political state.
  7. 11. An agricultural podructs that increased alavery in the South.
  8. 12. A machine that quickly separates cotton fibers from seeds
  9. 13. It was a secret network of routes, safe houses, and people that helped enslaved African Americans escape to freedom in the northern states and Canada, not an actual railroad.
  10. 16. She was an American abolitionist and activist for African American civil rights, women's rights, and abstinence from alcohol.
  11. 18. Is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe.
  12. 19. It was an invasion of Mexico by the United States Army.
  13. 20. The principle that all political power is vested in and derived from the people
  14. 21. Was an American abolitionist in the decades leading up to the Civil War.
  15. 23. Is the act of freeing someone from another's control
  16. 26. was an American lawyer and statesman who represented Kentucky in both the United States Senate and House of Representatives.
  17. 27. The political movement to end slavery and liberate enslaved people