Period 5 Review

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Across
  1. 3. Created Nebraska and Kansas as states and gave the people in those territories the right to chose to be a free or slave state through popular sovereignty. Biggest law that caused the Civil War.
  2. 5. provided for the return of escaped slaves to their owners
  3. 9. secret society created by white southerners that terrorized the Freedman
  4. 12. U.S. purchase of land from Mexico for the purposes of building a Transcontinental RR
  5. 14. beginning of civil war
  6. 15. Belief that it was the US' right to expand from coast to coast
  7. 17. cultivate giving a part of each crop as rent.
  8. 18. all people born in USA are citizens
  9. 19. anti-slavery
  10. 20. Began after Mexican troops crossed the Rio Grande into Texas
Down
  1. 1. Against mass immigration of people from Europe, believed immigrants were taking their jobs
  2. 2. People of a territory should determine if they want to be a slave state or a free state
  3. 4. violent fights between pro and antislavery
  4. 6. turning point of civil war
  5. 7. turning point in 1863
  6. 8. gave citizens or future citizens up to 160 acres of public land provided they live on it, improve it, and pay a small registration fee
  7. 10. Sued for his freedom in federal court, couldn't sue because he was property not a citizen
  8. 11. an advocate or supporter of democracy.
  9. 13. the action or an act of abolishing a system, practice, or institution.
  10. 16. extension of a state's territory by encroaching on that of other nations, pursued as a political strategy.