Pre Civil War Era

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Across
  1. 1. The South threatened to do this to the North if they didn't get what they want
  2. 3. A book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe to exploit the terrible parts of slavery (initials)
  3. 5. This is where white males made bids on slaves and sold others.
  4. 10. what the slaves used to communicate with each other
  5. 12. People in the North generally got a better one of these than Southerners, and slaves were not allowed to get this at all.
  6. 16. someone who made slaves obedient to their masters by abusing them
  7. 17. people who were treated as property
  8. 19. A character in Uncle Tom's Cabin who escaped to Canada so her family wasn't seperated
  9. 20. prolonged cruel or unjust treatment or control.
  10. 23. Eli Whitney made this in an attempt to slow down slavery, but it backfired and made it worse (two words)
  11. 24. a type of slave who watched and punished other slaves
  12. 25. An era in the 19th century where factories and steam engines started to be made, boosting the North's economy ten times the amount of the South (two words)
  13. 26. Uncle Tom's Cabin affected many Northerners to take action
Down
  1. 2. The South's main cash crop on plantations
  2. 4. a rule that tabled all petitions against slavery (Two words)
  3. 6. a comrpramise that made Maine a free state and another state a slave state. (two words)
  4. 7. Many people question whether the Civil War was this word.
  5. 8. What the Boston Morning Post claimed Uncle Tom's Cabin was
  6. 9. big farms that white males owned
  7. 11. Many of these were posted for catching runaway slaves
  8. 13. Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin (initials)
  9. 14. A free black male who went to the Supreme Court asking questions such as "Did congress have the right to make any laws at all concerning slavery?" but was outvoted by the Southern judges. (Two words, name)
  10. 15. Someone who is fighting to get rid of slavery
  11. 18. A character in Uncle Tom's Cabin who's main purpose was to exploit how bad plantation owners were by getting whipped to death near the end of the book.
  12. 21. most of these people came to the North from other countries
  13. 22. the age most slaves started working