Across
- 2. - setting a fire
- 5. railroad - a series of roads, houses, river crossings, and people who helped southern slaves, mainly from border states, escape to the north
- 9. - farm-centered
- 11. of 1850 - legislation passed by congress by which california entered the union as a free state, slave trading was ended in the district of columbia, texas gave up its claims to new mexico in exchange for money, residents of the territories of new mexico and utah would be able to determine whether they wanted slavery, and a stronger fugitive slave act was enacted
- 12. - 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 to new territories
- 13. - an older slave that a plantation owner thought was loyal and who supervised other slaves
- 14. - the period before the civil war
- 16. 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
- 17. state - a state that did NOT allow slavery
- 18. compromise - legislation passed in 1820 by which Maine entered the union as a free state, Missouri entered the union as a slave state, and slavery was prohibited north of the southern border of Missouri in the rest of the Louisiana purchase land
- 19. - to add on, such as adding territory to an existing town, city, or state
- 21. act - 1854 legislation that created the territories of nebraska and kansas and that contained a clause on popular sovereignty that negated the compromise of 1850
Down
- 1. states - free states that share borders.
- 3. - extreme loyalty given to a particular region in the belief that their ideas and interests must be protected from other regions
- 4. state - a state that allowed slavery
- 6. - the idea of voiding and not following national laws within a state
- 7. - a tax on imported goods
- 8. destiny - the belief that the United States was destined to expand from the Atlantic to the Pacific ocean.
- 10. sovereignty - the ability of the people of an area to decide upon an issue, such as whether they would allow slavery
- 14. - one who wanted to do away with something, particularly slavery in the 1800s
- 15. platform - a document issued 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 obligations or if it hindered slavery
- 20. - city-centered