Across
- 3. phrase frequently used by Southern politicians and authors prior to the American Civil War, indicating the economic and political importance of cotton production
- 6. bank war
- 9. system
- 12. Act of 1854
- 13. United States foreign policy position
- 15. acquisition of the territory of Louisiana
- 16. conflict between the United States and Mexico from 1846 to 1848.
- 17. 1850
- 18. the resistance to enslavement through escape and flight
- 19. convention
Down
- 1. Rebellion
- 2. Destiney
- 4. forced displacement of tribes
- 5. commonly shortened to the KKK
- 7. Jacksonian
- 8. 13th Amendment
- 10. required that slaves be returned to their owners, even if they were in a free state
- 11. revolution
- 14. restricted black people's right to own property
