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- 1. Belonging to a period before a war especially the American Civil War
- 4. A loose union of independent states; name of government used by the southern states that seceded during the Civil War
- 6. forces Northern troops
- 7. Sovereignty A government in which the people rule by their own consent.
- 9. A person who wanted to end slavery in the United States
- 11. Formal withdrawal of states or regions from a nation
- 12. Compromise ¨Compromise of 1820" over the issue of slavery in Missouri. It was decided Missouri entered as a slave state and Maine entered as a free state and all states North of the 36th parallel were free states and all South were slave states.
- 14. Act 1854 - Created Nebraska and Kansas as states and gave the people in those territories the right to chose to be a free or slave state through popular sovereignty.
- 16. Scott United States slave who sued for liberty after living in a non-slave state
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- 2. War (1846-1848) The war between the United States and Mexico in which the United States acquired one half of the Mexican territory.
- 3. Loyalty to one's own region of the country, rather than to the nation as a whole
- 5. of 1850 Agreement designed to ease tensions caused by the expansion of slavery into western territories
- 8. Brown's Raid Began when he and his men took over the arsenal in Harpers Ferry, Virginia, in hopes of starting a slave rebellion.
- 10. Civil War The violent conflict between Union and confederate forces over states rights and slavery between 1861-1865.
- 13. Tom's Cabin A novel published by harriet beecher stowe in 1852 which portrayed slavery as brutal and immoral
- 15. Lincoln 16th President of the United States saved the Union during the Civil War and emancipated the slaves; was assassinated by Booth (1809-1865)