Slavery and Sectionalism

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  1. 1. a package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress in September 1850, which defused a four-year political confrontation between slave and free states on the status of territories acquired during the Mexican–American War
  2. 4. Harriet Beecher Stowe is the author of this book
  3. 8. a person who favors the abolition of a practice or institution, especially capital punishment or (formerly) slavery.
  4. 9. an effort by Congress to defuse the sectional and political rivalries triggered by the request of Missouri late in 1819 for admission as a state in which slavery would be permitted
  5. 10. a system where work was based on time
  6. 12. was passed by the U.S. Congress on May 30, 1854. It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders.
  7. 14. restriction of interest to a narrow sphere; undue concern with local interests or petty distinctions at the expense of general well-being.
  8. 16. append or add as an extra or subordinate part, especially to a document.
  9. 19. a network of secret routes and safe houses established in the United States during the early to mid-19th century, and used by African-American slaves to escape into free states and Canada with the aid of abolitionists and allies who were sympathetic to their cause.
  10. 20. a system of labor under slavery characteristic in the Americas.
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  1. 2. an idea that allows the people in a new territory to decide an issue, such as whether to allow slavery
  2. 3. the idea of voiding and not following national laws within a state
  3. 5. william lloyd garrison founded this newspaper
  4. 6. setting a fire on purpose
  5. 7. older slaves the plantation owner thought were loyal
  6. 11. the rights and powers held by individual US states rather than by the federal government.
  7. 13. those that allowed slavery
  8. 15. an American abolitionist and political activist.
  9. 17. those that no longer allowed slavery or were in the process of abolishing it
  10. 18. occurring or existing before a particular war, especially the American Civil War.