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  1. 1. A war fought between the United States and Mexico from 1846 to 1848.
  2. 3. Laws passed in 1793 and 1850 that provided for the return of escaped slaves to their owners.
  3. 8. The movement to end slavery.
  4. 10. A network of secret routes and safe houses used by enslaved people to escape to freedom.
  5. 12. The idea that a state can invalidate a federal law.
  6. 14. An abolitionist and writer who escaped slavery.
  7. 17. A Supreme Court ruling in 1857 that denied citizenship to enslaved people and declared the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional.
  8. 19. A reformer who advocated for the rights of the mentally ill.
  9. 21. The act of freeing someone from slavery.
  10. 22. The dominance of cotton as a cash crop in the Southern United States.
  11. 23. A U.S. policy that opposed European colonialism in the Americas.
  12. 25. An anti-slavery novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe.
  13. 26. A system of slavery in which people are considered the legal property of another.
  14. 27. A period of violence in Kansas from 1854 to 1859 over the issue of slavery.
  15. 28. An abolitionist and publisher of The Liberator.
  16. 29. The balance of power in the U.S. Senate between states that allowed slavery and those that did not.The Second Great Awakening: A religious revival movement in the early 19th century.
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  1. 2. An agreement in 1820 that admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state, and prohibited slavery in the remaining Louisiana Purchase territory north of the 36°30′ parallel.
  2. 4. An abolitionist who led a raid on Harpers Ferry in 1859.
  3. 5. A social movement against the consumption of alcoholic beverages.
  4. 6. A set of laws passed in 1850 to resolve disputes over slavery in territories acquired during the Mexican-American War.
  5. 7. The idea that the people of a territory should decide whether to allow slavery.
  6. 9. People who captured and returned escaped slaves to their owners.
  7. 11. Public sales where enslaved people were sold to the highest bidder.
  8. 13. A machine that separates cotton fibers from seeds.
  9. 15. The act of withdrawing from a political union.
  10. 16. An abolitionist and conductor on the Underground Railroad.
  11. 18. An abolitionist and women's rights activist.
  12. 20. A U.S. politician known for his compromises.
  13. 24. A law passed in 1854 that allowed settlers in Kansas and Nebraska to decide whether to allow slavery, leading to violence.