Across
- 3. the act of formally withdrawing from the Union
- 6. a reform movement during the 18th and 19th centuries often called the antislavery movement. It sought to end the enslavement of Africans all over the world.
- 7. a law that made it a crime to help a runaway slave. It allowed for the arrest of escaped slaves in free states and required their return to slaveholders
- 10. industrial, prohibited ownership of slaves within their borders, loyal to the Union
- 12. a large farm that usually specializes in growing one kind of crop for profit
- 15. freed
- 16. political authority is based on the votes of the people
- 17. emotional Christian songs sung by enslaved people in the South that mixed African and European elements and usually expressed a slave’s religious beliefs
- 18. the belief that the powers of the states should be greater than the federal government
- 20. the idea that people could rise above the material things in life. A popular movement among New England writers and thinkers in the mid-1800s
Down
- 1. rights not given to the federal government are reserved for the states
- 2. trading network in which goods and slaves moved between England, the Americas, and Africa
- 4. a loose alliance of states
- 5. a story that often provides a moral lesson
- 8. invented the cotton gin
- 9. a settlement of differences by mutual concessions.
- 11. a network of people who helped thousands of enslaved people escape to the North by providing transportation and hiding places
- 13. added Missouri to the Union as a Slave state and Maine as a Free state
- 14. a voyage that brought enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas
- 19. agricultural, believes in ownership of slaves, states rights, and the Fugitive Slave Laws