Across
- 2. people who were hired or legally authorized to hunt down and capture enslaved people who had escaped
- 3. a federal law that made it a crime to help runaway slaves
- 4. a powerful and influential American politician who earned the nickname "The Great Compromiser"
- 5. five separate bills passed by the U.S Congress to temporarily defuse a major political crisis over slavery
- 8. aa social reformer in the 19th century who tirelessly advocated for better and more humane treatment for people with mental illness
- 11. a U.S foreign policy that opposed European colonialism in the Western Hemisphere
- 12. a law passed in 1854 that created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska and let the settlers in each territory decide for themselves whether to allow slavery
- 16. a system where people are treated as legal property
- 18. a supreme court ruling in 1857 that started African Americans were not citizens therefore could not sue in federal court
- 20. the idea that a U.S state has the right to invalidate any federal law it deems unconstitutional
- 21. were public sales where enslaved people were sold to the highest bidder
- 24. a social movement in the 19th and early 20th centuries that aimed to reduce or completely stop the drinking of alcohol
- 25. a machine invented by Eli Whitney in 1793 that quickly and easily separated cotton fibers from their seeds
- 26. a radical white abolitionist who believed that violence was the only way to end slavery
- 27. a political agreement in the years before the Civil War to keep an equal number of states where slavery was legal and states where it was outlawed
- 28. an incredibly popular anti-slavery novel published in 1852 by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Down
- 1. a huge Protestant religious revival that swept the U.S in the early 1800s
- 3. a powerful writer and speaker who escaped from slavery and became a leader
- 6. an enslaved woman who became a powerful public speaker for abolition and woman's right in the 19th century
- 7. a deal in 1820 that kept the peace between free and slave states
- 9. phrase used in the american south before the Civil War
- 10. the act of freeing someone from the control or power of another
- 13. the movement to end slavery
- 14. a period of violent conflicts in the Kansas Territory from to 1854 to 1861 over whether the new state should be free or allow slavery
- 15. a prominent abolitionist and journalist who demanded the immediate and complete end to slavery
- 17. conflict fought between the U.s and Mexico from 1846 to 1848
- 19. the idea that the power of a government comes from the people
- 21. when a region or state formally breaks away from the country or union it belongs to in order to become an independent entity
- 22. a secret network of safe houses and routes used by enslaved people in the 19th century
- 23. an enslaved woman who escaped to freedom and then risked her life repeatedly to lead other enslaved people to freedom