civil war

1. Gin a machine that efficiently separates cotton fibers from their seeds,
5. Kansas a violent conflict in the Kansas Territory between pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers from 1854 to 1859, largely due to the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854.
6. Toms Cabin he story follows Eliza and her son escaping north, while Uncle Tom is sold south
7. compromise a 1820 US federal laws that admited missouri to the Union as a slave state amd Maine as a free state at the same time.
9. Slave act a federal law that required all citizens, including those in free states, to help capture and return escaped enslaved people to their owners
10. slavery a system where indivduals are treated as personal property that can be bought, sold or traded
11. sovereignty the supreme power or authority of a state or government to govern itself and its territory without outside interference
16. Clay an American lawyer and statesman who represented Kentucky in both the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives.
17. war a U.S citizen or resident of Mexican Birth or descent
18. the fact or process of being set free from legal, social, or political restrictions liberation.
19. to break away from a territory or group in power and create a separate entity

2. the theory that states can invalidate federal laws they deem unconstitutional
3. Railroad a secret network of people who helped enslaved people escape to freedom, primarily using coded language from railroads
4. Act Created Kansas and nebraska as territories
8. a political movement centered around ending slavery
10. of 1850 a series of five laws passed by the U.S congress to settle disputes over slavery and to prevent war
12. Brown a radical abolitionist who in 1859, led an unsuccessful raid on a federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia
13. Scott Decision ruled that Americans of African descent were not citizens and could not sue in federal court
14. Douglass an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman
15. cotton refers to the belief that in the 19th century U.S South thought that cotton was the most important commodity in the world