Civil War Crossword

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Across
  1. 3. peacefully or forcefully separating from a country to make a new territory.
  2. 4. laws meant to control and keep enslaved Africans from rebelling.
  3. 6. when a new territory is peacefully or forcefully added to a country.
  4. 7. a land deal between the United States and France in 1803.
  5. 9. allowed president Andrew Jackson, in 1830, to relocate native peoples from their homelands.
  6. 10. ratified in 1781, the first Constitution of the U.S.
  7. 12. doctrine that new territories would decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery.
Down
  1. 1. someone who actively worked to end, or abolish, slavery.
  2. 2. an organization of both whites and free blacks who helped runaway slaves travel to states in the North and to Canada.
  3. 5. the belief that white people are superior to other races.
  4. 8. president whose election ignited the Civil War.
  5. 11. the principle that U.S. States had certain rights and political powers separate from the federal government.