Across
- 2. Tax on imports
- 5. _________________ Railroad - Secret network helping enslaved people escape. Not an actual railroad
- 10. Land within the mainland boundaries of the country that had not yet become a state by 1861.
- 12. A Latin phrase that means "before the war". It's used to describe the time period before the Civil War, which lasted from 1861–1865.
- 14. ______________ - A term for the pre-Civil War era in the South, when the economy was based on slave labor and plantation farming.
- 16. Wealth and resources of a nation
- 19. Someone who wishes to abolish or get rid of slavery.
- 20. a dramatic and wide-reaching change in the way something works or is organized or in people's ideas about it.
- 22. When a state focuses on its own region's needs instead of the nation's interests.
- 24. _____________ Compromise (1820) - Agreement about admitting new states. Missouri entered as slave state, Maine entered as free state. Set 36°30' parallel as slavery boundary
- 27. Warehouse of weapons
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- 1. Compromise of Eighteen-_______ - Series of bills to maintain balance between free/slave state and included controversial Fugitive Slave Law
- 3. Another word for Rebellion
- 4. Loyalty to one's region over the nation
- 6. Manufacturing goods from raw materials, such as cloth from cotton or machine parts from iron.
- 7. Party: A political party generally against slavery and its expansion into the territories. This political party had basically been swallowed up by the Democrat and Republican parties by the time of the Civil War.
- 8. Rights: This doctrine held the powers of the individual states as greater than the powers of the Federal government. States rights meant that the Federal government held its power only through the consent of the states and that any powers not specifically given to the Federal government remained in control of the states.
- 9. the 1857 Supreme Court ruling that enslaved people were not U.S. citizens and could not sue in federal court. The decision also declared the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional
- 11. Product purchased from other nations
- 13. Community that shares laws and culture
- 15. The science of growing crops or raising livestock; farming.
- 17. _____________________ line: A boundary surveyed in the 1760s that ran between Pennsylvania to the North and Delaware, Maryland and (West) Virginia to the South. It became a symbolic division between free states and slave states.
- 18. A nickname for the South.
- 21. ________ Gin - Invented by Eli Whitney in 1793. Machine that quickly removed seeds from cotton
- 22. Popular ______________ - Letting voters in territories decide about slavery
- 23. Withdrawal from the Federal government of the United States. Southern states, feeling persecuted by the North, seceded by voting to separate from the Union. Southerners felt this was perfectly legal but Unionists saw it as rebellion.
- 25. Free __________ - Political movement opposing slavery's expansion. Wanted western territories free for white settlers
- 26. _______ Crops - crops grown to be sold