Road to Civil War

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Across
  1. 5. system of farming in which a farmer works land for an owner who provides equipment and seeds for a share of the crop
  2. 9. The first state to leave the Union (2 wds)
  3. 11. Slaves had no rights because they were property (3 wds)
  4. 14. any runaway slave must be returned to the slave owner (3 wds)
  5. 15. Abolitionist that is responsible for Bleeding Kansas and Raid on Harper's Ferry (2 wds)
  6. 16. a person who flees a location to escape danger or persecution
  7. 18. the period of rebuilding the South and readmitting Southern states into the Union
  8. 19. Presidential candidate focused on preserving the Union (2 wds)
  9. 23. invented the cotton gin in 1793 (2 wds)
  10. 26. Passed by John Adams, violating the 1st Amendment (2 wds)
  11. 27. This political party was against the spread slavery (2 wds)
  12. 28. sets expectations about slavery in the Lousiana Territory in 1820 (2 wds)
  13. 29. a territory could become a state with 60,000 free people (2 wds)
  14. 30. nickname given by former Confederates to Southern whites who supported Republican Reconstruction of the South
Down
  1. 1. President of the Confederacy
  2. 2. Kansas-Nebraska Act let the territories decide if they would have slavery (2 wds)
  3. 3. a story of an elderly slave whipped to death; shows the brutality of slavery (3 wds)
  4. 4. to draft citizens into military service
  5. 6. separation or isolation of race, class, or group
  6. 7. Southerners did not want to pay the high tarriff rates; questioned whether or not states could override federal laws (2 wds)
  7. 8. Start of the Civil War in Charleston, South Carolina (2 wds)
  8. 10. founded for profit in 1607
  9. 12. this political party valued an agricultural economy dependent on slavery (2 wds)
  10. 13. Ends slave trade in Washington, D.C. (3 wds)
  11. 17. a person from the northern states who went to the South after the Civil War to profit from the Reconstruction
  12. 20. refusal to give in
  13. 21. to set free, especially from legal, social, or political restrictions
  14. 22. slave trade, contains the Middle Passage (2 wds)
  15. 24. to unite, or to blend into a united whole
  16. 25. loyalty to a region