Across
- 3. a system in which the residents vote, they control the government through the representatives they elect.
- 6. a Supreme Court case where slave, Dred Scott, was sued for his freedom due to living in territories where slavery was illegal. The court ruled against Scott.
- 7. the process of growth in cities resulting in industrialization.
- 10. it was formed in 1861 by the Southern states after their secession from the Union.
- 11. living in the country, or relating to the countryside rather than the town.
- 12. the state of holding a person in bondage for labor.
- 13. to withdraw.
- 15. a novel published by Harriet Beecher Stowe, portraying slavery as brutal and immortal.
Down
- 1. John Brown led a slave revolt, taking over the U.S. arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia.
- 2. a law passed in 1850 to help slaveholders recapture runaway slaves.
- 4. having greater loyalty of one’s own region rather than the nation as a whole.
- 5. a law stating that new states would vote if their state would be a free or slave state. Produced a violent uprising known as “Bleeding Kansas.”
- 8. a theory that stated that states had the right to judge when the federal government had passed on unconstitutional law.
- 9. a series of five Constitutional laws passed to help resolve disputes between free states and slave states.
- 14. the careful manage of available resources of a community, country, etc.; the expenditure or consumption of money, materials, etc.