Across
- 1. a conflict between pro slavery and anti slavery
- 3. an american lawyer
- 6. a process of being set free from legal restrictions
- 9. a machine that sped up the process of separating cotten fibers from seeds
- 10. a anti slavery novel
- 11. an american social reformer
- 13. a law that makes escaped slaves return to there owners
- 15. a series of laws to defuse tension between slave and free states
- 17. an american abolitionist
- 18. The agricultural product that increased slavery in the south.
- 19. a agreement in 1820 that says missouri is a slave state and maine is a free
- 20. a conflict between mexico and the united states
Down
- 2. a theory that a state can invalidate a law
- 4. repealed the misouri compromise and created two new territories
- 5. secret routes for slaves to escape
- 7. a rule that the political power resides in the people
- 8. withdrawing formally from a membership of a federation
- 12. made african americans none u.s. citizens
- 14. a social movement to end slavery
- 16. When enslaved people are treated as personal property