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Sectionalism: excessive regard for sectional or local interests; regional or local spirit, prejudice, etc.
Abolitionist: A person who favors the abolition of a practice or institution
NW Ordinance of 1787: The law which provided the method for creating new states within the Northwest Territory
Mason Dixon Line: Symbolic dividing line between North and South before the American Civil War.
Underground Railroad: A secret network for helping slaves escape from the South to the North and Canada in the years before the American Civil War.
KansasNebraska Act: Created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opening new lands for settlement, and repealed the Missouri Compromise
WASP: White Anglo-Saxon Protestant
Secede: To try to get out of the Federal Union of the United States(The South wanted to leave the Union)
Bloody Kansas: Describes the violent civil disturbances in the US territory of Kansas from 1854 to 1858.
Protestant: A member of a Western Christian church whose faith and practice are founded on the principles of the Reformation, especially in the acceptance of the Bible as the sole source of revelation, in justification by faith alone, and in the universal priesthood of all the believers.
Marriage of the States: States need to agree and be together, as in marriage.
Manifest Destiny: a god given quest to make the united states sea to shining sea.
Gold Rush: huge gold mines found in the west.
Lewis and Clark: 2 men set out to explore the unexplored west of the united states
AngloSaxon: A member of one of the Germanic peoples, the Angles, the Saxons, and the Jutes, who settled in Britain in the fifth and sixth centuries.
Lincoln: 16th president of the united states, made slavery illegal.
Civil War: war over slavery
Missouri Compromise: fights between slave and non slave states (north and south)
America the Beautiful: a patriotic american song.
John Brown: An American abolitionist who believed armed insurrection was the only way to overthrow the institution of slavery in the United States.
Liberia: a country located in west Africa and uses the English language
Fugitive Slave Act: The Fugitive Slave Act were laws passed by the United States Congress in 1793 and 1850 to provide for the return of slaves who escaped from one state into another state or territory
Harriet Tubman: an African-American abolitionist, humanitarian, and Union spy during the American Civil War
Federal Government: a government with strong central powers
Slavery: people that are treated as property to be bought and sold and are forced to work
Local Government: The administration of a particular town, county or district, with representatives elected by the people who live there
Senator: a member of a senate
Expansion: The action of becoming larger or more extensive.
Religious Freedom: The right to choose a religion without interference by the government
Economics: The branch of knowledge concerned with the production, consumption, and transfer of wealth
Kate, Rylan, Jaret
Across:2. | excessive regard for sectional or local interests; regional or local spirit, prejudice, etc. | 3. | A secret network for helping slaves escape from the South to the North and Canada in the years before the American Civil War. | 6. | 16th president of the united states, made slavery illegal. | 7. | A person who favors the abolition of a practice or institution | 8. | The action of becoming larger or more extensive. | 11. | States need to agree and be together, as in marriage. | 13. | Describes the violent civil disturbances in the US territory of Kansas from 1854 to 1858. |
| 16. | fights between slave and non slave states (north and south) | 19. | war over slavery | 20. | The law which provided the method for creating new states within the Northwest Territory | 22. | The right to choose a religion without interference by the government | 23. | a patriotic american song. | 24. | The Fugitive Slave Act were laws passed by the United States Congress in 1793 and 1850 to provide for the return of slaves who escaped from one state into another state or territory |
| | Down:1. | an African-American abolitionist, humanitarian, and Union spy during the American Civil War | 4. | huge gold mines found in the west. | 5. | a country located in west Africa and uses the English language | 9. | White Anglo-Saxon Protestant | 10. | a government with strong central powers | 12. | people that are treated as property to be bought and sold and are forced to work |
| 14. | a god given quest to make the united states sea to shining sea. | 15. | Symbolic dividing line between North and South before the American Civil War. | 17. | To try to get out of the Federal Union of the United States(The South wanted to leave the Union) | 18. | The branch of knowledge concerned with the production, consumption, and transfer of wealth | 21. | a member of a senate |
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Kate, Rylan, Jaret
Across:2. | excessive regard for sectional or local interests; regional or local spirit, prejudice, etc. | 3. | A secret network for helping slaves escape from the South to the North and Canada in the years before the American Civil War. | 6. | 16th president of the united states, made slavery illegal. | 7. | A person who favors the abolition of a practice or institution | 8. | The action of becoming larger or more extensive. | 11. | States need to agree and be together, as in marriage. | 13. | Describes the violent civil disturbances in the US territory of Kansas from 1854 to 1858. |
| 16. | fights between slave and non slave states (north and south) | 19. | war over slavery | 20. | The law which provided the method for creating new states within the Northwest Territory | 22. | The right to choose a religion without interference by the government | 23. | a patriotic american song. | 24. | The Fugitive Slave Act were laws passed by the United States Congress in 1793 and 1850 to provide for the return of slaves who escaped from one state into another state or territory |
| | Down:1. | an African-American abolitionist, humanitarian, and Union spy during the American Civil War | 4. | huge gold mines found in the west. | 5. | a country located in west Africa and uses the English language | 9. | White Anglo-Saxon Protestant | 10. | a government with strong central powers | 12. | people that are treated as property to be bought and sold and are forced to work |
| 14. | a god given quest to make the united states sea to shining sea. | 15. | Symbolic dividing line between North and South before the American Civil War. | 17. | To try to get out of the Federal Union of the United States(The South wanted to leave the Union) | 18. | The branch of knowledge concerned with the production, consumption, and transfer of wealth | 21. | a member of a senate |
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