Antebellum America, the Civil War, and Reconstruction Vocabulary
Across
- 2. klux klan Often abbreviated KKK and informally known as The Klan, is the name of three distinct past and present far-right,
- 4. amendment Extended the right to vote for all males
- 7. of 1850 Legislation passed by congress by which California entered the union as a free state
- 9. Confedarate prison for union soliders
- 11. compromise Legislation passed by congress in 1820
- 13. The ability to buy something now and pay for it later or over a period of time
- 14. The act of pulling out of the union
- 15. The right to vote
- 17. Unfair treatment of a person or group because of prejudice
- 20. sovereignity The ability of the residents of an area to decide upon issue such as whether they would allow slavery
- 21. right's The belief that a states interest should preceedence over the interest of the Nation government
- 23. bureau A federal government organization established in 1865 that helped the newly freed slavery after the Civil War
- 24. The action or an act of abolishing a system, practice, or institution
- 26. codes A set of laws passed by Georgia, and most Southern states, after the Civil War to restrict the rights of freedom
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- 1. amendment A granted citizenship to the former slaves and forbade the states from denying anyone the equal protection of the law
- 3. amendment An amendment to the U.S constitution ratified in 1865, that made slavery illegal
- 5. To declare invalid
- 6. The period immediatley after the Civil war when the South rebuilt and the southern states returned to the Union
- 7. gin Used to seperate the seeds from the cotton fiber
- 8. lincoln Elected in 1860
- 10. proclamation A document issued by the president Abraham Lincoln in 1862 that freed the slaves in the confedaracy
- 12. states A state that allowed slavery
- 15. Landowners provided land, a house, farming tools, and fertilizer
- 16. of chickamauga Union general led his troopa seven miles South of Chattanooga at Chickamauga Creek
- 18. The period before the civilwar
- 19. states A state that didn't allow slavery
- 22. farming Owned some agriculture equipment
- 25. runners Mostly private ships that slipped around the blockade