Pre- Civil War

2. The act of setting a person free from the control of another person
4. Principle of maintaing equal number of free states
7. 19th century social reformers and advocate for the mentally ill
13. Known for publishing "The Liberator"
15. Public sale where enslaved people were sold to the highest bidder
16. Federal law that requires slaves who escaped to go back to their owners, even if they reached a free state
17. Machine that seperates cotton from their seeds
20. 1846-1848 conflict between the United States abd Mexico
21. Anti-slavery novel
22. African-American abolitionist and womens rights activist, who was born into slavery
23. U.S law that was passed that created Kansas and Nebraska territories

1. A way for slaves to escape, via white and black abolitionists
3. Formal withdrawl of a state or region from a larger political entity
5. Where slaves are treated as personal property
6. U.S declaration that the Americas were no longer open for European colonization or intervention
8. The theory that a state has the right to declare a federal law unconstitutuinal and therefore void and unenforceable within its borders
9. A person hired to hunt down, capture,and return escaped enslaved people
10. The principle that the authority of a government comes from its people, not a ruler
11. American abolitionists who escaped from slavery herself, then became a conductor on the underground railroad
12. Series of Protestant religious revivals in the early 19th century
14. An agriculutral product that increased slavery in the south
16. Former enslaved man who became a leading abolitionist
18. influential 19th-century American known as "the Great Compromiser"
19. A violent, undeclared war in the Kansas territory between pro-slavery and anti-slavery in 1854