Unit 7 Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 1. Southern laws passed immediately after the war to severely limit the rights of newly freed African Americans.
  2. 4. The complex period of rebuilding and political reintegration following the Civil War.
  3. 6. Legislative package that admitted California as a free state and established a stricter Fugitive Slave Law.
  4. 7. Addition to the Constitution that prohibited denying the right to vote based on race.
  5. 10. The bloody four-year conflict (1861–1865) between the North and the South.
  6. 13. Infamous 1857 Supreme Court ruling that declared African Americans were not citizens.
  7. 14. Term for a person fleeing from custody; specifically used in the 1850 law regarding runaway slaves.
  8. 16. Amendment that guaranteed citizenship and "equal protection under the law" to all born in the U.S.
  9. 17. The name for the United States government and the North during the Civil War.
  10. 18. The personal freedoms and legal protections belonging to all citizens.
  11. 20. Agency created to provide food, clothes, and schooling to formerly enslaved people.
  12. 21. 1854 law that sparked violence by allowing "popular sovereignty" to decide slavery in Western territories.
Down
  1. 2. The Virginia location where Robert E. Lee surrendered his army to Ulysses S. Grant.
  2. 3. Lincoln's 1863 executive order that legally freed enslaved people in rebelling states.
  3. 5. State and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the South until the mid-20th century.
  4. 8. The constitutional change that officially abolished slavery in the U.S.
  5. 9. 1820 agreement that drew an east-west line through the Louisiana Purchase to manage the expansion of slavery.
  6. 11. A failed 1846 proposal to ban slavery in any territory acquired from the Mexican-American War.
  7. 12. Short but powerful 1863 speech that redefined the American war effort as a "new birth of freedom."
  8. 15. A series of seven high-profile political face-offs in 1858 centered on the issue of slavery.
  9. 18. The "provisional" government formed by the eleven Southern states that seceded.
  10. 19. The legal protection requiring a prisoner be brought before a court; suspended by Lincoln during the war.