Across
- 4. withdraw formally
- 9. the enslaving and owning of human beings and their offspring as property,
- 10. any community whose economy is based on producing and maintaining crops and farmland.
- 12. the right of the people living in a newly organized territory to decide by vote of their territorial legislature whether or not slavery would be permitted
- 13. profound divisions and hostilities between Northern and Southern states
Down
- 1. African Americans were not and could never be citizens of the United States;
- 2. (factoriesconcerns those activities combining factors of production
- 3. declared a policy of prohibiting slavery in the remaining Louisiana Purchase lands north of the 36°30′ parallel.
- 5. temporarily defused tensions between slave and free states by admitting California as a free state and enacting the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
- 6. repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820
- 7. militant American abolitionist whose raid on Harpers Ferry, was instrumental in heightening sectional hostilities that led to the American Civil War
- 8. The main issue was slavery and states’ rights.
- 11. the movement to end slavery and liberate enslaved people