Lead up to the Civil War

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Across
  1. 7. a conflict fought between the united states and mexico from 1846 to 1848
  2. 9. a abolitionist and a women's rights activist
  3. 10. required that slaves be returned to their owners, even if they were in a free state
  4. 11. five laws passed in September of 1850 that dealt with the issue of slavery and territorial expansion
  5. 13. an argicultrual product that increased the need for slavery
  6. 16. improving the treatment of the mentally ill and her role as a civil war nurse
  7. 20. the principal that the authority of a government is created and sustained by the consent of its people
  8. 21. denied the legality of black citizenship in America
  9. 23. the principle and movement aimed at ending slavery and achieving the emancipation of all enslaved people
  10. 24. the withdrawal of eleven southern states from the Union in 1860, leading to the Civil war
  11. 26. a legal theory that a state can invalidate any federal law it deems unconstitutional
  12. 28. a leading abolitionist who founded the influential anti-slavery newspaper
  13. 29. a period of violent conflict from 1854 to 1859 between proslavery and anti-slavery settlers in the Kansas Territory
Down
  1. 1. a famous anti-slavery novel
  2. 2. a brave abolitionist and conductor on the underground railroad
  3. 3. a U.S policy from 1823 that told European powers to stay out of the western hemisphere
  4. 4. one person has total ownership of another
  5. 5. individuals employed to track down and return escaped slaves to their owners
  6. 6. a 1820 United States federal law that temporarily resolved the national conflict over the expansion of slavery
  7. 8. the equal numbers of states that allowed slavery and those that did not
  8. 9. put slaves up for sale
  9. 12. a U.S. law that organized the Kansas and Nebraska territories
  10. 14. a social reform movement that advocated for the reduction or elimination of alcohol consumption
  11. 15. the abolitionist who led the raid on Harpers Ferry in 1859
  12. 17. several periods of religious revival in American History
  13. 18. a machine for separating cotton from its seed
  14. 19. a network of secret routes and safe houses used by enslaved African Americans to escape to free states and Canada
  15. 22. former slave who became a prominent abolitionist
  16. 25. the freeing of someone from slavery
  17. 27. "the great compromiser"