Road to the Civil War Crossword

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  1. 4. A prominent 19th-century American abolitionist, suffragist, and newspaper editor.
  2. 5. A series of five laws passed by the U.S. Congress to settle disputes over slavery and territorial expansion following the Mexican-American War.
  3. 7. An American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman.
  4. 10. An American lawyer and statesman who represented Kentucky in both the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives.
  5. 12. The formal withdrawal of a state, group, or region from a larger political body, such as a federation or nation.
  6. 14. The act of freeing someone from slavery or restraint.
  7. 17. The movement to end slavery, particularly in the United States before the Civil War.
  8. 19. The equal number of free and slave states that existed for much of U.S. history.
  9. 20. A machine that separates cotton fibers from their seeds.
  10. 21. A landmark 1857 Supreme Court ruling that declared African Americans were not citizens and had no right to sue in federal court.
  11. 22. Was a formerly enslaved African American woman who became a powerful abolitionist and women's rights activist in the 19th century.
  12. 23. A system where enslaved people are treated as personal property, like livestock or furniture, who can be bought, sold, and inherited.
  13. 24. A 1846-1848 conflict between the United States and Mexico that resulted in the U.S. gaining a large amount of territory, including California, Nevada, Utah, and parts of Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, and Wyoming.
  14. 25. an escaped slave who became a famous conductor on the Underground Railroad, leading about 70 enslaved people to freedom.
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  1. 1. Is the principle that a government's authority comes from its people, who have the power to decide their own form of government.
  2. 2. A pair of federal laws passed in 1793 and 1850 that allowed for the seizure and return of enslaved people who had escaped to other states.
  3. 3. A U.S. law that admitted Missouri to the Union as a slave state and Maine as a free state, maintaining the balance of power between slave and free states in Congress.
  4. 6. An American abolitionist in the decades preceding the Civil War.
  5. 8. Was a covert network of secret routes, safe houses, and abolitionists who helped enslaved African Americans escape to freedom in the North and Canada.
  6. 9. A series of violent civil conflicts in the Kansas Territory between 1854 and 1859, resulting from the debate over whether the territory would permit slavery.
  7. 11. Is a legal theory asserting that individual states have the right to invalidate or refuse to enforce any federal law they deem unconstitutional.
  8. 13. It was a slogan used by Southern leaders before the U.S. Civil War to assert that the South's cotton was so vital to the world economy that it could force foreign nations to support the Confederacy.
  9. 15. A U.S. law that created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska and repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820.
  10. 16. An anti-slavery novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe.
  11. 18. Were individuals hired to track, capture, and return enslaved people who had escaped to their enslavers.