Unit#3 Division Notes Crossword

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Across
  1. 1. Allowed voters in Kansas to decide through a popular vote if they would enter the union as a free or slave state.
  2. 4. In the 1800s, the most widely used form of lamp oil and machinery oil was __________.
  3. 5. an extremely unpopular part of the Compromise of 1850 in the North, that saw California join the union as a free state. Allowed Southern slave holders to hire bounty hunters to find and imprison African Americans in the North.
  4. 7. With increased demand and profitability of cotton production and westward migration did tension between free states and slave states increased or decreased? Pick one.
  5. 8. He led a raid on the federal weapons depot at Harper’s Ferry that ultimately failed. He was eventually put on trial and executed. Opinion of his actions further divide the nation.
  6. 11. Many states in the South did this after Lincoln wins the election of 1860. Slave holding border states of: Delaware, Maryland, West Virginia, Kentucky, Missouri all stay in the union.
  7. 13. This port city at the mouth of the Hudson river benefited socially, politically and economically from the Eerie Canal.
  8. 14. This man was the 1860 nominee from the newly created Republican party. His candidacy was so opposed in the south, that his name was not even on the ballot in numerous states.
Down
  1. 2. This machine was invented by Eli Whitney and mechanized the process of sorting the seeds out of cotton. Efficiency in cotton harvesting was greatly increased, thereby increasing its profitability
  2. 3. He became a prominent leader in the abolitionist movement: Meeting with elected officials, writing and publishing an abolitionist newspaper, making speeches and organizing supporters.
  3. 5. Prior to the Civil War, there were this many slaves in the United States of America
  4. 6. Due to increased demand and increased efficiency cotton became the United State’s most valuable_______________. (when you send good for sale to another country).
  5. 9. ________ were primarily employed to work in the early textile factories in the Northeastern United States in the 1800s. Many would join labor causes and other social reform efforts, instrumental to changes taking place in the 1800s in the U.S.
  6. 10. This public construction project link the Hudson river by water with Lake Eerie.
  7. 12. This supreme court decision answered the question of freedom and state lines for slaves. It declared that a former slave ________could not be free regardless of where he lived as it would deny his slave holders right to his property. Also, declared the Missouri Compromise of 1820 unconstitutional. Politically, it meant there was no point or room for further compromise between free state and slave states in Congress.