History Crossword

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Across
  1. 2. duties - non-slaveholding whites took part in _____ _______.
  2. 4. Northup - Free black man who was kidnapped and sold into slavery
  3. 7. - a term meaning “before the war” and used to describe the decades before the American Civil War began in 1861
  4. 8. middle passage - the internal forced migration of slaves to the South and West in the United States
  5. 10. South - an elite group of slaveholders gained new wealth from cotton.
  6. 11. gin - a device, patented by Eli Whitney in 1794, that separated the seeds from raw cotton quickly and easily
  7. 15. planters - exerted a power influence on the federal government
  8. 21. - 76.1% of whites in the south in 1860
  9. 22. - many slaves religion
  10. 23. South - an aristocratic gentry, generation upon generation of whom had grown up with slavery, held a privileged place.
Down
  1. 1. River - The essential water highway in the US.
  2. 3. boom - the upswing in American cotton production during the nineteenth century
  3. 5. meaning - slave work songs usually had a ______ _______.
  4. 6. of slaves - banned in the beginning of 1808
  5. 8. - _____ of the first 11 presidents owned slaves.
  6. 9. Manifesto - the secret diplomatic memo stating that if Spain refused to sell Cuba to the United States, the United States was justified in taking the island as a national security measure
  7. 12. violence - Slaveholders used both psychological coercion and ________ ____________ to prevent slaves from disobeying their wishes.
  8. 13. - the premise that southern white slaveholders acted in the best interests of their slaves
  9. 14. rabbit - popular animal character in slave stories
  10. 16. slave trade - the trading of slaves within the borders of the United States
  11. 17. crop - a crop grown to be sold for profit instead of consumption by the farmer’s family
  12. 18. Beecher - Wrote the 1852 Uncle Tom’s Cabin
  13. 19. Orleans - Largest slave market in the US
  14. 20. - the idea that blacks and whites come from different origins
  15. 22. majority - a majority of a separate region (that would otherwise be in the minority of the nation) with the power to veto or disallow legislation put forward by a hostile majority