Pre Civil War Era

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Across
  1. 5. big farms that white males owned
  2. 6. A character in Uncle Tom's Cabin who escaped to Canada so her family wasn't seperated
  3. 10. People in the North generally got a better one of these than Southerners, and slaves were not allowed to get this at all.
  4. 13. someone who made slaves obedient to their masters by abusing them
  5. 14. a type of slave who watched and punished other slaves
  6. 22. This is where white males made bids on slaves and sold others.
  7. 23. A character in Uncle Tom's Cabin who's main purpose was to exploit how bad plantation owners were by getting whipped to death near the end of the book.
  8. 24. most of these people came to the North from other countries
  9. 25. An era in the 19th century where factories and steam engines started to be made, boosting the North's economy ten times the amount of the South (two words)
  10. 26. A free black male who went to the Supreme Court asking questions such as "Did congress have the right to make any laws at all concerning slavery?" but was outvoted by the Southern judges. (Two words, name)
Down
  1. 1. The South's main cash crop on plantations
  2. 2. Many of these were posted for catching runaway slaves
  3. 3. a comrpramise that made Maine a free state and another state a slave state. (two words)
  4. 4. Many people question whether the Civil War was this word.
  5. 7. A book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe to exploit the terrible parts of slavery (initials)
  6. 8. Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin (initials)
  7. 9. people who were treated as property
  8. 11. Someone who is fighting to get rid of slavery
  9. 12. The South threatened to do this to the North if they didn't get what they want
  10. 15. a rule that tabled all petitions against slavery (Two words)
  11. 16. what the slaves used to communicate with each other
  12. 17. the age most slaves started working
  13. 18. Uncle Tom's Cabin affected many Northerners to take action
  14. 19. prolonged cruel or unjust treatment or control.
  15. 20. Eli Whitney made this in an attempt to slow down slavery, but it backfired and made it worse (two words)
  16. 21. What the Boston Morning Post claimed Uncle Tom's Cabin was