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- 2. - The harrowing and deadly middle leg of the triangular trade in which millions of enslaved Africans were forcibly transported to the Americas.
- 5. - The social and political movement aimed at the legal prohibition and ending of slavery.
- 8. - The primary cash crop of the Antebellum South that heavily increased the demand for enslaved labor.
- 11. - The 1857 Supreme Court case that ruled enslaved people were not citizens and struck down the Missouri Compromise.
- 13. - The location of an 1859 raid led by abolitionist John Brown in an attempt to spark an armed slave revolt.
- 14. - A strict rule adopted by the House of Representatives in the 1830s to prevent the discussion of anti-slavery petitions.
- 15. - The most famous "conductor" on the Underground Railroad.
- 16. - An 1820 agreement that maintained a balance of power in the Senate and banned slavery north of the line.
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- 1. - A prominent abolitionist, orator, and former enslaved person who wrote an autobiography of his life.
- 3. - An executive order issued by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863 that declared enslaved people in Confederate territory to be free.
- 4. - An enslaved preacher who led a violent, two-day slave rebellion in Virginia in 1831.
- 6. - The constitutional amendment that officially abolished slavery and involuntary servitude.Down
- 7. - A secret network of safe houses and routes used by enslaved people to escape to free states and Canada.
- 9. - The formal withdrawal of Southern states from the United States, largely driven by the defense of slavery.
- 10. - A legislative package that admitted California as a free state and passed the Fugitive Slave Act.
- 12. - The term used to describe the period in American history before the outbreak of the Civil War.