Road to Civil War

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Across
  1. 5. Short growing season; economy built on manufacturing; wanted tariffs; did not allow slavery
  2. 6. A network system of people dedicated to helping slaves escape to free states or Canada
  3. 8. Political party concerned with the spread of slavery in the West because of large farms and their slaves taking jobs.
  4. 12. In answer the slave or free state question; resulted in widespread violence and bloodshed in this new state
  5. 16. What is the name of the transportation that the North had lots, the West had some, the South had little
  6. 17. 2nd _____________ _________________ Act passed. Allowed the South and slave hunters to go into the North and find escaped slaves. Often led to free Black people being kidnapped into slavery.
  7. 19. _______________ an agreement in which both sides give up some of their demands
  8. 20. Concern for regional needs or interests; caused separation and hostility between the North and the South during the 1800s
  9. 21. Invention created by Eli Whitney that kept and increased the South’s hold on slavery
  10. 22. Slave that led a rebellion in 1831. Scared the South and created harsher slave laws
Down
  1. 1. The Compromise of 1850 determined the creation of two new territories, the full state of Texas, and outlawed the slave trade in D.C because of which territory’s request to enter as a new state?
  2. 2. Former slave who spoke about his time as a slave and encouraged others to speak up as well.
  3. 3. Allowing states to decide if they are going to be free or salve.
  4. 4. Senator known as the "Great Compromiser” for the Missouri and 1850 Compromises.
  5. 7. Key cash crop of the South
  6. 9. 1820 Settled the dispute over how to maintain the balance between slave and free states by admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state. U.S divided along 36’30” line.
  7. 10. Supreme Court case that a) declared the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional and b) declared that African Americans were not citizens and had no legal rights
  8. 11. A person who worked in the Underground Railroad to help slaves escape.
  9. 13. African man who sued for his freedom, saying he had been illegally brought as a slave into a free state
  10. 14. _________ Amendment Overturned the Dred Scott decision. Citizenship based on birthright.
  11. 15. Conductor on the Underground Railroad. Led over 300 slaves to freedom.
  12. 18. Long growing season, economy built on plantation system of cash crops; allowed slavery; hated tariffs