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2. a person who tracked down, apprehended, and returned escaped slaves to their owners
5. a prominent 19th-century American abolitionist, journalist, and social reformer
6. he fact or process of being set free from legal, social, or political restrictions
11. the principle that political power is vested in the people
13. a period of violent civil conflict in the Kansas Territory between 1854
15. American abolitionist and women's rights activist
18. the political practice of keeping the number of free states and slave
19. temperance movement was a social and political campaign, prominent in the 19th and early 20th centuries
20. the theory that an individual state has the right to declare any federal law or judicial decision unconstitutional and therefore void within its borders

1. a secret network of people who helped enslaved African Americans escape to freedom before the Civil War
2. the action of withdrawing formally from membership of a federation or body, especially a political state
3. African American abolitionist and political activist
4. was an American social reformer
7. 1857 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that stated African Americans were not citizens and had no rights under the Constitution
8. an 1852 anti-slavery novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe that was crucial in shaping public opinion against slavery
9. a particular form of slave auction
10. a period of intense religious revival in the United States from the late 18th
12. was a U.S. foreign policy statement issued in 1823 by President James Monroe
14. was an American lawyer and statesman
16. 19th-century American educator, social reformer, and humanitarian
17. is a machine that separates cotton fibers from their seeds