US History Honors, 10

2. - The harrowing and deadly middle leg of the triangular trade in which millions of enslaved Africans were forcibly transported to the Americas.
5. - The social and political movement aimed at the legal prohibition and ending of slavery.
8. - The primary cash crop of the Antebellum South that heavily increased the demand for enslaved labor.
11. - The 1857 Supreme Court case that ruled enslaved people were not citizens and struck down the Missouri Compromise.
13. - The location of an 1859 raid led by abolitionist John Brown in an attempt to spark an armed slave revolt.
14. - A strict rule adopted by the House of Representatives in the 1830s to prevent the discussion of anti-slavery petitions.
15. - The most famous "conductor" on the Underground Railroad.
16. - An 1820 agreement that maintained a balance of power in the Senate and banned slavery north of the line.

1. - A prominent abolitionist, orator, and former enslaved person who wrote an autobiography of his life.
3. - An executive order issued by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863 that declared enslaved people in Confederate territory to be free.
4. - An enslaved preacher who led a violent, two-day slave rebellion in Virginia in 1831.
6. - The constitutional amendment that officially abolished slavery and involuntary servitude.Down
7. - A secret network of safe houses and routes used by enslaved people to escape to free states and Canada.
9. - The formal withdrawal of Southern states from the United States, largely driven by the defense of slavery.
10. - A legislative package that admitted California as a free state and passed the Fugitive Slave Act.
12. - The term used to describe the period in American history before the outbreak of the Civil War.