Lead up to the civil war

4. Told European powers to stop colonizing with the newly independent nations of american.
6. Deal in 1820 which allowed Missouri to enter U.S as a slave state
7. American social reformer.
13. Created Kansas and Nebraska as territories.
18. Woman who escaped slavery and became a famous leader
20. A person whose job was to find and bring back enslaved people who ran away.
21. Americans filled with the sense that they were important in the world
22. Violent conflict in the Kansas territory between pro and anti slavery.
23. Gave land to fugitive slaves
24. Social and political effort to reduce or eliminate alcohol consumption.
26. Secret system of escape routes that helped enslaved people in the South.
27. Social reform performer and advocate for the mentally ill.
28. an agricultural product that increased the need for slavery in the south.

1. When a state tries to cancel or make a federal law invalid within it’s own borders.
2. Abolitionist who worked to end slavery in the United States.
3. Defuse tensions between North and South over slavery.
5. Comes out from a source.
8. Idea that people have the power in their government and get to decide how they are ruled.
9. Child born to an enslaved person is automatically enslaved as well.
10. Event where enslaved human beings were sold to the highest bidder.
11. A Supreme Court ruling that African Americans were not citizens.
12. A Kind enslaved man named tom who faces many hardships.
14. Fought over a land dispute after the U.S annexed Texas.
15. Enslaved woman who became a famous abolitionist.
16. Law that allowed slave owners to capture and return enslaved people who had escaped to other states.
17. equal number of states that allowed slavery and states that did not.
19. The belief and movement to end slavery completely.
25. Soldier and politician, a famous salesman.