Chapter 8 vocab

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Across
  1. 2. withdraws formally from membership of a federal union.
  2. 3. a state that doesn't allow slaves.
  3. 4. the rights and powers held by individual US states rather than by the federal government.
  4. 5. not helping or supporting either side in a conflict
  5. 6. a tax or duty to be paid on a particular class of imports or exports.
  6. 10. abolitionist
  7. 11. the resistance to enslavement through escape and flight, through the end of the Civil War
  8. 12. a state that does allow slaves.
  9. 13. admitted California to the United States as a “free” (no slavery) state but allowed some newly acquired territories to decide on slavery for themselves.
Down
  1. 1. a collection of 11 states that seceded from the United States in 1860 following the election of President Abraham Lincoln.
  2. 7. the idea that the government is authorized by citizens and influenced by what they want.
  3. 8. the position of protecting or defending something.
  4. 9. a member of a small independent group taking part in irregular fighting, typically against larger regular forces.