Crossword Puzzle

4. An attempt to seek a compromise and avert a crisis between North and South.
5. A proposal to prohibit slavery in the territory acquired by the United States at the conclusion of the Mexican War.
7. The colonists moved west to make a better living.
8. A person forced into physical labor with no pay
12. A person who advocated or supported the abolition of slavery in the U.S.
14. Conflict fought between the United States and Great Britain over British violations of U.S. maritime rights. It ended with the exchange of ratifications of the Treaty of Ghent.
16. A vast network of people who helped fugitive slaves escape to the North and to Canada.
17. Invented the cotton gin.
18. A route people used to migrate westward
19. Act It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders.

1. Small civil war in the United States, fought between proslavery and antislavery advocates for control of the new territory of Kansas under the doctrine of popular sovereignty.
2. John brown lead a small group on a raid against a federal armory in Harpers Ferry, Virginia in an attempt to start an armed slave revolt and destroy the institution of slavery.
3. A war fought between the United States and Mexico from 1846 to 1848. The United States won the war acquiring modern day Texas.
6. a machine that is used to pull cotton fibers from the cotton seed.
9. A lottery system to distribute the land taken from the Cherokee Nation or Creek Nation.
10. Gold was discovered in California and everyone was eager to take it.
11. 1820An 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.
13. the capturing, selling, and buying of slaves.
15. legal case in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Dred Scott was not thereby entitled to his freedom, and that African Americans were not and could never be citizens of the United States