APUSH Unit 5

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Across
  1. 5. United States slave and insurrectionist who in 1831 led a rebellion of slaves in Virginia
  2. 6. a racial term for a black and native american child
  3. 9. a free black who moved from the South to the North and urged African Americans to fight for their freedom.
  4. 11. the formal act of freeing from slavery
  5. 12. Written by Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1853 that highly influenced england's view on the American Deep South and slavery. a novel promoting abolition. intensified sectional conflict.
  6. 14. An anti-slavery newspaper written by William Lloyd Garrison. It drew attention to abolition, both positive and negative, causing a war of words between supporters of slavery and those opposed.
  7. 15. American social theorist who justified slavery by saying that black people were just children and needed to be in slavery
  8. 16. Former slave who helped slaves escape on the Underground Railroad
  9. 17. a young woman of the American Old South's upper class, known for being quiet and polite
  10. 18. man or farmer owning small estate; middle-class farmer
  11. 19. United States abolitionist who published an anti-slavery journal (1805-1879)
Down
  1. 1. a system that helped enslaved African Americans follow a network of escape routes out of the South to freedom in the North
  2. 2. 1842, Supreme Court case that decided federal law superseded state law, it was over a fugitive slave law.
  3. 3. opposed the expansion of slavery in new states (particularly out west) ; subcatagory of the Republican party who were also abolitionists ; popular during the late antebellum period ; Abe Lincoln was the most influential person of this political party
  4. 4. A Society that thought slavery was bad. They would buy land in Africa and get free blacks to move there. One of these such colonies was made into what now is Liberia. Most sponsors just wanted to get blacks out of their country.
  5. 7. Another term for slavery; The owning of human beings existed in a country that practiced liberty.
  6. 8. Term used to refer to the approximately 3 decades before 1860 when "king" cotton and the slave labor dominated the economy of the southern states
  7. 9. United States freed slave and insurrectionist in South Carolina who was involved in planning an uprising of slaves and was hanged (1767-1822)
  8. 10. cotton and cotton-growing considered, in the pre-Civil War South, as a vital commodity, the major factor not only in the economy but also in politics.
  9. 13. United States abolitionist who escaped from slavery and became an influential writer and lecturer in the North (1817-1895)