HS US History: Unit 1 - Sectionalism and Slavery

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Across
  1. 3. plan that prohibit expansion of slavery into Missouri w/out affecting current slaves there
  2. 5. Northern abolitionist responsible for the Pottawatomie Massacre and Harpers Ferry
  3. 7. enslaved black man who sued for freedom along with his wife
  4. 12. pre-civil war anti-slavery political party
  5. 15. a crop produced for its commercial value rather than for use by the grower
  6. 16. tax on imported goods
  7. 19. conducting of legal proceedings against someone in respect of a criminal charge
  8. 20. the people of a newly formed state get to decide whether slavery will be allowed or not
  9. 22. pro-slavery people from Missouri who illegally voted in Kansas, establish it as a slave state
  10. 25. pre-civil war conservative political party
  11. 27. the processing of raw materials and manufacturing of goods in factories
  12. 28. relating to or concerned with a city or densely populated area
  13. 30. pre-civil war liberal political party
  14. 31. a network of secret routes and safe houses to assist runaway slaves
  15. 33. abolitionist born into slavery who helped slaves escape via the Underground Railroad
  16. 34. inventor of the cotton gin
  17. 36. ended the Missouri Compromise and established popular sovereignty as the new policy
Down
  1. 1. senator from Illinois who supported Popular Sovereignty
  2. 2. precedent that a slave living in free territory is free and remains free
  3. 4. ended slavery in the Louisiana Territory north of the 36°30' line
  4. 6. political party formed by opponents of the Kansas-Nebraska Act
  5. 8. a machine for separating cotton from its seeds
  6. 9. the case presented by or on behalf of the party being accused
  7. 10. a formal written request made to an authority or government body
  8. 11. withdraw from the union
  9. 13. the belief that a person’s region was superior to other sections of the country
  10. 14. allowed California in as a free state while strengthening Fugitive Slave Laws
  11. 17. Laws established for the capture and return of runaway slaves
  12. 18. relating to fabric or weaving
  13. 21. a person in support of ending slavery
  14. 23. book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe that increased the abolitionist movement in the North
  15. 24. a bill to prevent the spread of slavery into new territory gained from the Mexican-American War
  16. 26. idea that the individual states should have more power than the federal government
  17. 29. large-scale estate which grow cash crops using slave labor
  18. 32. do away with
  19. 35. the freeing of someone from slavery