Across
- 2. Network of secret routes and safe houses
- 4. Process of being set free from legal or political restrictions
- 7. Violent Conflict in the Kansas Territory between pro-slavery
- 10. Withdrawing formally from membership of a federation or body
- 11. All political power is vested in and derived from the people.
- 13. American Lawyer that represented Kentucky
- 15. A book sharing the stories of 2 enslaved people
- 18. An agricultural product that increased the need for slavery in the South.
- 19. repealed the Missouri Compromise
Down
- 1. Known as a slave who became a prominent abolitionist
- 3. Declared that African Americans could not be US citizens and had no right to sue the court
- 5. Allowed capture and return of runaway enslaved people
- 6. Admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
- 8. Legal theory that a state has the right to invalidate any federal law that deems unconstitutional.
- 9. Individuals are treated as personal property
- 12. An invasion of Mexico by the US Army
- 14. Known for his actions to ending slavery.
- 16. A machine for separating cotton from its seeds
- 17. Laws passed to defuse tensions between the North and the South over slavery.
- 20. Political movement to end slavery