Lead up to the Civil War
Across
- 2. He spread religion through revivals and emotional preaching, and unleashed several schismatic movements.
- 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
- 6. A public and dehumanizing process of selling enslaved people as property.
- 8. Was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman.
- 14. is a cornerstone of U.S. foreign policy that warned European powers against further colonization or interference in the Western Hemisphere.
- 15. Confirmed slavery in the American territories, denied the legality of black citizenship in the United States, and declared the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional.
- 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.
- 22. Allowed the capture and return of fugitive enslaved persons
- 24. Was an American abolitionist and social activist.
- 25. People employed to track down and return runaway slaves to their owners.
- 28. The theory that states have the right to void federal laws they deem unconstitutional
- 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 He repealed the Missouri Compromise, organized the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, and applied the principle of popular sovereignty to allow settlers to decide on the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.
Down
- 1. It was a period of violent conflict from 1854 to 1859 between slaveholders and antislavery settlers in the Kansas Territory
- 4. It was a social movement that promoted the reduction or elimination of alcohol consumption.
- 5. Compromise An agruculture products that increased alavery in the South.
- 7. Was an American abolitionist, journalist, and social reformer.
- 9. An American social reformer and an advocate for the mentally ill.
- 10. The action of formally withdrawing from membership in a federation or body, especially a political state.
- 11. An agricultural podructs that increased alavery in the South.
- 12. A machine that quickly separates cotton fibers from seeds
- 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.
- 16. She was an American abolitionist and activist for African American civil rights, women's rights, and abstinence from alcohol.
- 18. Is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe.
- 19. It was an invasion of Mexico by the United States Army.
- 20. The principle that all political power is vested in and derived from the people
- 21. Was an American abolitionist in the decades leading up to the Civil War.
- 23. Is the act of freeing someone from another's control
- 26. was an American lawyer and statesman who represented Kentucky in both the United States Senate and House of Representatives.
- 27. The political movement to end slavery and liberate enslaved people