Across
- 4. machine created to remove seeds from cotton
- 7. slaves counted as 3/5 of a person
- 9. part of slave wedding ceremony
- 12. formation of new states and banned slavery in the region
- 13. soldiers who fought during the War of 1812
- 16. pre-civil war
- 17. slaves who worked as carpenters, blacksmiths, or other skilled labor
- 19. slaves who worked as cooks, maids, or butlers
- 20. slaves chained or roped together
Down
- 1. forbid American settlement pass the Appalachian Mountains
- 2. supreme law for the United States
- 3. person who wants to abolish slavery
- 5. pre-constitution
- 6. adopted on July 4, 1776 called for independence from Britain
- 8. revolutionary war veteran and abolitionist
- 10. holding areas used by slave traders
- 11. legal freeing of slaves
- 14. colony of free African Americans founded on the West African Coast
- 15. declared the colonies to be independent states
- 18. permitted Missouri to enter as slave and Maine to enter the union as free state