Across
- 1. the idea that a state didn't have to listen to federal rules (particularly tariffs)
- 5. the government wanted to create a __________ of power between slave and free states
- 8. the nickname given to the Kansas-Nebraska act when violence broke out
- 9. the idea that a state could decide on big issues themselves, southern states feared this would be taken away
- 10. depended on manufacturing/factories
- 12. the slave who sued for his freedom just to be told that slaves were not citizen and slaves everywhere
- 14. the direction cotton expanded
- 17. the idea that a state could vote on if they would allow slavery or not
- 18. 5 parts that included the fugitive slave act, california being free, and two states getting popular sovereignty
- 21. state that did not allow slavery
- 23. the _______________ purchase we got from the French
- 24. state that allowed slavery
Down
- 2. what happened to slavery after the invention of the cotton gin
- 3. the big issue dividing the nation in the antebellum period
- 4. the idea that the United States had the right to expand west
- 6. the new cash crop in the South
- 7. last name of the person who won the election of 1860
- 11. before the war
- 13. depended on slavery/agriculture
- 15. the land that asked to be a part of the United States
- 16. a tax on imports
- 19. the compromise that created a line where above the line did not allow slavery and below the line did allow slavery, missouri a slave state, and maine a free state
- 20. the controversial act that required people to return runaway slaves
- 22. the division of the United States into regions based on economy and ideas