Unit 9 Crossword

3. An invention that removed seeds from cotton 50 times faster.
5. This enslaved man lead a bloody rebellion in Virginia, which caused fear among slaveowners.
6. An event during the Bleeding Kansas Crisis where John Brown and his men brutally killed 5 pro-slavers.
9. A secret network of abolitionists who helped enslaved people escape to freedom in the North.
11. People who worked on the Underground Railroad.
12. A short-lived law that drew a line across America. Any new states north of the line would have freedom, but any south of the line would have slavery.
13. An event where John Brown tried to raid a federal armory, in order to give guns to slaves and start a revolt. Brown was captured, but the attack scared slaveowners.
14. A court case where an enslaved man sued his owner for freedom. The man lost, and the Supreme Court ruled that Black people could not be American citizens.
15. A presidential election between pro-slavery Stephen Douglas and anti-slavery Abraham Lincoln.
16. A policy put forward by Abraham Lincoln to keep slavery in the South, but ban it from expanding to other states.

1. A law that made it mandatory for all escaped slaves to be returned to their owners.
2. Someone who worked to end slavery.
4. A conflict between pro- and anti-slavery voters in Kansas. Both sides wanted to kill as many voters on the other side to win the election.
7. This was the anti-slavery party in the 1860 election. Their motto was "Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men!"
8. A law that replaced the Missouri Compromise, and allowed new states to vote on whether they would allow slavery.
10. A meeting of seven slaveowning states, in which those states decided to leave the US and become the Confederate States of America.