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- 3. People in the _____________ Party supported slavery.
- 5. To ______ is to formally leave a group/entity
- 7. Another word for moral/trying to reduce harm
- 9. A _____________ narrative is something that is widely believed in a society.
- 11. Lincoln was against the ___________ of slavery.
- 13. The states' _________ ideology is that individual states should have the power to make decisions for their state (instead of the federal government).
- 16. President ___________ was the head of the Republican Party.
- 17. The ________ Party was against slavery.
- 21. The ___________ Compromised, proposed in 1860, would have made slavery permanent in the southern states.
- 22. When southern states seceded, they formed the __________.
- 24. The ___________-Nebraska Act allowed those two territories to choose whether they would have slavery or not.
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- 1. The ___________ Slave Act was a horrible law that required all people to kidnap people who had escaped slavery.
- 2. Southern states seceded because they wanted to preserve _______.
- 4. After the __________-American War, the US took a lot of land from that other country.
- 6. A ____________ narrative is different from what the majority of people think or assume.
- 8. This US state used to be part of Mexico and seceded from Mexico in large part due to Mexico's abolition of slavery.
- 10. ___________ sovereignty is the idea that individual states could vote on whether they'd have slavery or not.
- 12. Free Soilers were against slavery for ________ reasons.
- 14. Another word for the United States
- 15. Lewis ________ is an example of someone who resisted against pro-slavery laws and tried to protect freedom-seekers in Boston.
- 18. A _________ hunter is someone who made money from kidnapping freedom-seekers.
- 19. When reasoning is focused on efficiency or logic
- 20. In the Supreme Court's decision in the ________ Scott case, the Court ruled that Black people didn't have rights anywhere in the US.
- 23. ________________ were against slavery for ethical reasons.
