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Across
  1. 1. state balance: the pre-Civil War political goal of maintaining an equal number of slave and free states to ensure an equal distribution of power in the U.S. Senate
  2. 4. slavery:one person has total ownership of another
  3. 5. Dix: prominent American reformer and advocate for the mentally ill during the 19th century.
  4. 8. Dougless: American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman
  5. 9. toms cabin: a famous anti-slavery novel
  6. 11. Act: a U.S. law that created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska and allowed residents to vote on whether to allow slavery, a principle known as popular sovereignty
  7. 14. scott decisions: a 1857 Supreme Court ruling that declared African Americans were not citizens and had no rights, and that the government could not ban slavery in U.S. territories
  8. 15. the fact or process of being set free from legal, social, or political restrictions; liberation.
  9. 18. Kansas: a period of violent conflict from 1854 to 1859 between pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers in the Kansas Territory
  10. 19. cotton: the South's economic dominance of cotton production in the years before the U.S. Civil War
  11. 21. Tubman: United States abolitionist
  12. 23. the withdrawal of 11 Southern states from the Union between 1860 and 1861
  13. 26. the act of making something ineffective or void.
  14. 27. the movement to end slavery and promote the emancipation of enslaved people
  15. 28. Clay: Henry Clay was an American lawyer and statesman who represented Kentucky in both the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives.
Down
  1. 2. auctions: usually took place on a raised platform with the auctioneer, audience, and the enslaved expected to enact their particular roles
  2. 3. truth: she believed that she was called by God to travel around the nation--sojourn--and preach the truth of his word
  3. 4. of 1850: five laws passed in September of 1850 that dealt with the issue of slavery and territorial expansion
  4. 6. Lloyld Garrison: American journalist, abolitionist, and social reformer
  5. 7. sovereignty: the principle that the authority of a government is created and sustained by the consent of its people, who are the ultimate source of power
  6. 8. slave act: a pair of federal laws passed in 1793 and 1850 that required the return of runaway enslaved people to their owners, even if they had escaped to free states
  7. 10. American war: a conflict fought between the United States and Mexico from 1846 to 1848, primarily over the U.S. annexation of Texas and westward expansion
  8. 12. railroad: a secret network of people and safe houses that helped enslaved people escape from bondage in the United States to free states and Canada
  9. 13. gin: a machine that separates cotton fibers from their seeds
  10. 16. Doctrine: a principle of US policy, originated by President James Monroe in 1823, that any intervention by external powers in the politics of the Americas is a potentially hostile act against the US.
  11. 17. second great awakening: refers to several periods of religious revival in American history
  12. 20. brown: abolitionist who was hanged after leading an unsuccessful raid at Harper's Ferry, Virginia (1800-1859)
  13. 22. temperance movement: The temperance movement was a social and political effort to reduce or eliminate alcohol consumption
  14. 24. Catchers: individuals or groups who hunted and apprehended enslaved people who had escaped from their enslavers, returning them to their owners
  15. 25. compromise: Admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a non-slave state at the same time