Lead up to the Civil War Terms

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  1. 2. People hired to track and capture escaped enslaved individuals.
  2. 3. 1850 law requiring escaped slaves to be returned to their owners, even from free states.
  3. 4. U.S. senator known for brokering major compromises to ease sectional tensions.
  4. 5. Law easing tensions by balancing slave and free states and settling land disputes.
  5. 8. Reformer who fought to improve treatment of the mentally ill and prison conditions.
  6. 11. 1823 policy warning Europe not to interfere in the Americas' affairs.
  7. 12. 1854 law letting states choose to allow slavery or not.
  8. 16. System where people are treated as property and bought or sold.
  9. 18. 1857 ruling saying enslaved people couldn’t sue and weren’t U.S. citizens.
  10. 20. Idea that states can cancel federal laws they think are unconstitutional.
  11. 21. Public sales where enslaved people were bought and sold to the highest bidder.
  12. 24. Campaign to limit or ban alcohol to improve society and health.
  13. 25. Machine invented in 1793 that quickly separated cotton fibers from seeds.
  14. 26. Abolitionist who led a raid to end slavery at Harpers Ferry in 1859.
  15. 27. Keeping equal numbers of free and slave states to maintain power in Congress.
  16. 28. 1852 novel that showed the cruelty of slavery and fueled abolitionist support.
Down
  1. 1. Religious revival in the 1800s that inspired reform movements like abolition and temperance.
  2. 3. Former slave who became a famous abolitionist and speaker for freedom.
  3. 6. Former slave who spoke out for abolition and women’s rights.
  4. 7. 1820 law that kept slave and free states balanced.
  5. 9. Nickname for cotton’s powerful role in the Southern economy before the Civil War.
  6. 10. The act of freeing someone from slavery or legal bondage.
  7. 13. Movement to end slavery and free enslaved people.
  8. 14. Violent clashes over slavery in Kansas before the Civil War.
  9. 15. Abolitionist who published The Liberator and demanded immediate emancipation of all enslaved people.
  10. 17. 1846–1848 conflict over land that added the Southwest to the United States.
  11. 19. Idea that people in each state decide if slavery is allowed.
  12. 21. Act of a state leaving the Union to become independent.
  13. 22. Secret network helping enslaved people escape to freedom in the North.
  14. 23. Brave conductor of the Underground Railroad who led many enslaved people to freedom.