Sectionalism

3. Agreement to balance free and slave states in the U.S.
6. Controversy over whether Missouri should allow slavery.
7. State that entered the Union as a slave state in 1792.
9. Law requiring the return of runaway slaves to their owners.
12. Secret network that helped enslaved people escape to free states or Canada.
14. The act of being set free from legal, social or political restricitons
15. Large farms in the South that relied on enslaved labor.
17. Region where free and slave states like Ohio and Kentucky were located.
18. Movement to end slavery in the U.S.
20. Law that banned slavery in the territories north and west of the Ohio River.

1. Agreement that admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
2. Group of Southern states that seceded and formed their own government.
4. Land acquisition that doubled the size of the U.S. in 1803.
5. The debate over the power of the national government vs. states’ rights.
8. Invention by Eli Whitney in 1793 that boosted cotton production and slavery.
10. Slave states that remained in the Union during the Civil War.
11. Withdrawal of Southern states from the Union, leading to the Civil War.
13. The Northern states during the Civil War, fighting against slavery's expansion.
16. Laws in Ohio that restricted the rights of African Americans.
19. First state to join the Union as a free state in 1791.