A Union in Disunion: Quiz 1

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Across

  1. The use of little or no alcoholic drink
  2. Agreement made to end the war with Mexico
  3. U.S. paid Mexico $10 million for a strip of land along the southern edge of present-day states of Arizona and New Mexico; with this agreement, U.S. mainland reached its present size
  4. Refusal to obey laws that are considered unjust as a nonviolent way to press for changes
  5. To add a territory to one's own territory
  6. Property
  7. A plantation manager
  8. To free from slavery
  9. Political theory that government is subject to the will of the people
  10. A person who strongly favors doing away with slavery
  11. A person freed from slavery
  12. Southern owner of a small farm who did not have enslaved people
  13. The right to vote
  14. The laws in the Southern states that controlled enslaved people
  15. Device that revolutionized the textile industry
  16. To give up by treaty
  17. Group who worked to free enslaved workers by buying them from slaveholders and then sending them to Liberia
  18. A major conductor of the Underground Railroad

Down

  1. Any of a group of New England writers who stressed the relationship between human beings and nature, spiritual things over material things, and the importance of the individual conscience
  2. A person who arranged for the settlement of land in Texas during the 1800s
  3. A system that helped enslaved African Americans follow a network of escape routes out of the South to freedom in the North
  4. Money to invest in businesses
  5. The freeing of some enslaved persons
  6. Widely known African American abolitionist who escaped from slavery in MD in 1838
  7. Runaway or trying to runaway


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