Across
- 8. Movement to end slavery
- 10. 5 laws passed to difuse tensions between free and slave states
- 12. Ruled that African Americans were not American Citizens
- 17. The act of being freed from control
- 18. Period of violence between pro-slavery and Anti-slavery settlers
- 19. All political power originates from the people
Down
- 1. states may reject, or nullify, federal laws
- 2. allowed settlers to decide whether to allow slavery through popular sovereignty
- 3. Formerly enslaved man who became an activist/public speaker
- 4. popular abolitionist
- 5. Allowed to capture and return enslaved people who tried to flee.
- 6. An enslaved woman who escaped/conducted the underground railroads
- 7. 1820 law that admitted missouri as a slave state and maine as a free state
- 9. Formal withdrawal of all 11 slave states
- 10. Separated cotton fibers from their seeds, increasing cotton production
- 11. American Lawyer and Statesman who represented Kentucky
- 13. A system where slaves were bought, sold, traded, or inherited.
- 14. Abolitionist novel about realities of slavery
- 15. Network of secret routes and safe houses used by enslaved people to escape to free states
- 16. Massive economic power of cotton production