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- 3. Quaker, abolitionist, women's rights activist
- 6. allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders
- 7. a network of secret routes and safe houses used by slaves to escape to free states
- 9. person who seeks to end slavery
- 10. an African-American slave who led a two-day rebellion of slaves and free blacks in Southampton County
- 11. ex slave and famous Underground Railroad conductor
- 13. awakening wave of religious interest that stirred the nation
- 16. a movement encouraging little or no drinking of alcohol
- 18. refusal to comply with certain laws or to pay taxes and fines
- 19. Convention the first women's rights convention
- 20. unsuccessfully sued for his freedom and that of his wife and their two daughters
- 22. when agricultural societies became more industrialized and urban
- 23. abolitionist who believed in armed rebellion as the only way to end slavery in the US
- 25. abolitionist and leading figure of the early women's rights movement
- 27. worked to improve prisons and mental institutes
- 29. refused to pay taxes of the us Mexican war
- 32. 16th president
- 33. law which required the government and the residents of free states to enforce the capture and return of fugitive slaves
- 35. was the Democratic Party nominee for president in the 1860 election,
- 37. the rights and powers held by individual US states rather than by the federal government
- 39. Father of the Common School
- 40. founder of the Hudson River School known for his landscape and history paintings
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- 1. the principle that the government is created and sustained by its people. Power to the people!
- 2. mid-19th century American art movement embodied by a group of landscape painters
- 4. the right to vote in an election
- 5. American abolitionist known for writing Uncle Tom's Cabin
- 8. a widely held belief in the United States that its settlers were destined to expand across North America
- 12. philosophical movement that valued individualism, idealism, and the divinity of nature
- 14. anti-slavery novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe
- 15. five separate bills passed by Congress which defused a four-year political confrontation between slave and free states on the status of territories acquired during the US Mexican War
- 17. American journalist known for editing The Liberator
- 21. fifth chief justice of the supreme court
- 24. Compromise the legislation that provided for the admission of Maine to the United States as a free state along with Missouri as a slave state
- 26. former slave who became a famous abolitionist, author, and public speaker
- 28. one of the two major political parties in the United States
- 30. inventor of the cotton gin
- 31. novelist, feminist, abolitionist, and activist for prison reform
- 34. appointed secretary of war by president James Monroe
- 36. a machine that quickly and easily separates cotton fibers from their seeds
- 38. the withdrawing of a group from a larger entity