Across
- 4. state :free states and slave states share borders.
- 5. the period before civil war
- 11. idea of voiding and not following national laws
- 14. loyalty given to particulate region in the belief that their ideas must be protected from other regions
- 16. setting a fire
- 19. farm centered
- 20. state:allowed slavery
- 21. state:did not allow slavery
Down
- 1. railroad :a series of houses, river crossings, roads and people that helped the slaves escape to the north
- 2. of 1850:legislation passed by congress by which cali entered the union as a free state slave trading was ended in the district of columbia texas gave up its claim to new mexico and utah would determine whether they wanted slavery and a stronger fugitive slave act was enacted
- 3. one who wants to do away with something particularly slavery in the 1800s
- 6. :to add on such as adding territory to an existing town city or state
- 7. an older slave owner thought was loyal and watched other slaves
- 8. city centered
- 9. sovereignty: the ability of the people of an area to decide upon an issue such as whether they would allow slavery
- 10. rights: the belief that all powers not specifically given to the national government in the U.S. constitution or specifically denied to the states remain with the states
- 12. compromise;legislation passed congress in 1820 by which maine entered the union
- 13. platform: a document issues by a state convention in 1850 that accepted the compromise of 1850 but agreed to resist if the north didn't live up to its obligation or if it hindered slavery
- 15. nebraska act:1854 legislation that created the territories of kansas and nebraska and contained a clause on popular sovereignty that negated the compromise of 1850
- 17. soil:the idea that slavery should not be interfered with where it already existed and that the national government had the right to keep it from spreading into new territories
- 18. destiny:the belief that the U.S. was denied to expand from the atlantic to the pacific ocean