Across
- The use of little or no alcoholic drink
- Agreement made to end the war with Mexico
- 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
- Refusal to obey laws that are considered unjust as a nonviolent way to press for changes
- To add a territory to one's own territory
- Property
- A plantation manager
- To free from slavery
- Political theory that government is subject to the will of the people
- A person who strongly favors doing away with slavery
- A person freed from slavery
- Southern owner of a small farm who did not have enslaved people
- The right to vote
- The laws in the Southern states that controlled enslaved people
- Device that revolutionized the textile industry
- To give up by treaty
- Group who worked to free enslaved workers by buying them from slaveholders and then sending them to Liberia
- A major conductor of the Underground Railroad
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Down
- 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
- A person who arranged for the settlement of land in Texas during the 1800s
- A system that helped enslaved African Americans follow a network of escape routes out of the South to freedom in the North
- Money to invest in businesses
- The freeing of some enslaved persons
- Widely known African American abolitionist who escaped from slavery in MD in 1838
- Runaway or trying to runaway
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